IstikanaandThe Arab Telemedia Group(ATG) announced today a new content partnership that will bring many popular TV shows from ATG’s library, including “Akher Ayam Al Toot”, “Sham Shareef” and many more to Istikana. ATG’s extensive library of thousand’s of hours of drama series will be available on Istikana’s advertising based free-to-watch platform as of this month. This is a good amount of quality video added to Istikana’s library. ATG was the first Arab production house to have won an International Emmy Award (Al Ijtiyah – 2008)....

ArabNet Forum Day 1: What you’ve missed WithArabNettaking place this week in Beirut, the first forum day started with a lot of optimism and ended with higher expectations for the following day. ArabNet Shift Digital Summit this year the is a four-day event. In addition to two forum days, The first day was open to developers and the last day will be open to all. Forum Day 1 was rich with panels similar to last year....

The second day ofArabNetShift Digital Summit started with some delay – Lebanese style – with a panel I was moderating on streaming video. With a diverse range of panelists from LinkOnline, MBC, Sony Entertainment Studios and Yahoo!, the panel discussed the status of online entertainment in the Middle East. Overall, the outcome was that it is still at a young age, with none of the panelists interested in a consolidated platform housing all the videos in one place....

The second day ofArabNetShift Digital Summit started with some delay – Lebanese style – with a panel I was moderating on streaming video. With a diverse range of panelists from LinkOnline, MBC, Sony Entertainment Studios and Yahoo!, the panel discussed the status of online entertainment in the Middle East. Overall, the outcome was that it is still at a young age, with none of the panelists interested in a consolidated platform housing all the videos in one place....

Focusing on Arab Internet from an international perspective, Arabnet is a conference organized by the International Business Alliance Group (IBAG) to bring together the Internet community to network and help launch the hottest startups from across the region. The4-day conferencewill take place on March 22-25 in beautiful Beirut, Lebanon, was a hit last year with over 600 attendees, 25,000 virtual attendees and 40 top-notch speakers from across the MENA, Europe, and Silicon Valley who all came together to make the event a resounding success....