Oryx Gulf Media launch L’Officiel Hommes
Oryx Gulf Media, publisher of the L’Officiel group of titles and BBC Top Gear, has announced the official re-launch of L’Officiel Hommes Middle East, the leading men’s fashion magazine published by Les Editions Jalou. Available in both Arabic and English editions, the bi-annual magazine will have a print run of 55,000 copies and will be available More Info »
Luxury Lifestyle platform Buro 24/7 goes live
The new online magazine Buro 24/7 Middle East has today gone live. The luxury lifestyle platform run by Russian fashion icon Miroslava Duma and local Emirati entrepreneur, Salama Alabbar, is an extension of the existing and highly respected Buro247.ru. The Middle East version will host up-to-the-minute news from the world of fashion, film, art, current affairs, More Info »
ITP partners with Sayidaty for Arab Woman Awards
ITP Consumer, the region’s largest publisher of English language women’s magazines, has announced a ground-breaking partnership with Sayidaty as media sponsor of its Arab Woman Awards for the coming year. The media partnership will include the Arab Woman Awards official publications being distributed with Sayidaty, on-site interviews with the winners featured on Sayidaty.com, post-event coverage More Info »
New Content Director to join Seven Media
Anthony Richardson has been confirmed as the new Content Director at Seven Media. The former Assistant News Editor for The National and most recently Bureau Chief at Bloomberg in Hong Kong, will commence his new role on November 3, 2013. In addition to editing all English language output from the agency including press releases, collaterals and social More Info »
Kholoud Rajeh joins Tiffany & Co. PR team
Tiffany & Co. has announced Kholoud Rajeh as the newest member of the in-house PR & promotions team. Working alongside Marketing & PR Director, Ghada El-Kari, Kholoud fills the position of PR Manager and brings with her over eight years of media relations experience. Having previously worked at Havas PR Middle East, Kholoud is well-versed in luxury fashion More Info »
New Beauty Editor for Style.com Arabia
Elizabeth Whiston-Dew has today joined Style.com/Arabia as Beauty Editor. Formerly Beauty Editor of the Emirates Woman Group at Motivate Publishing, Elizabeth has spent the past three years working across titles such as Emirates Woman, Emirates Bride, Spend It and Luxe. Elizabeth will now oversee all beauty pages within Style.com Arabia, which is an English and More Info »
Al Jazeera America signs Time Warner deal
Al Jazeera America has signed a distribution deal with Time Warner Cable offering access to millions of households in the New York and Los Angeles regions of the United States. Just days after launch in August 2013, the Qatar-owned broadcaster hit rocky ground after American-based telecoms group, AT&T, dropped the network from its U-verse television subscription service, taking its distribution More Info »
New Group Editor for OK! Middle East and Viva
Gemma White has been announced as the new Group Editor for OK! Middle East and Viva magazine. Gemma, who returns to ITP Publishing after two years at the Gulf News Group, will oversee the day-to-day running of OK! Middle East plus manage supplements and brand extensions. She will also have a creative input to Viva, the More Info »
Zainab Imichi Alhassan joins Grace and Garbo
Zainab Imichi Alhassan has been appointed PR Eleganceer at boutique PR firm, Grace and Garbo. Working across fashion and lifestyle clients, Zainab will concentrate on strategic brand building, media relations, boutique placement and social media. “I hope to learn a lot about PR from the Grace and Garbo team,” says Zainab. “I plan to use More Info »
SMG appoints Global President of LiquidThread
Olivier Gers has joined Starcom MediaVest Group (SMG) as Global President, LiquidThread, SMG’s branded entertainment content unit. He will be based out of the SMG London office and will report to Brian Terkelsen, CEO of MediaVest, who will continue to have executive oversight over LiquidThread in addition to his MediaVest role. In his new role, More Info »