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Department of State (DOS), Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of Press and Public Diplomacy (NEA/PPD), in consultation with Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), announces an open competition for support to the FY-20 Middle East Media Initiative (MEMI).

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/>The goal of the activity is to support training and creative collaborations between TV, broadcast media and digital professionals in the U.

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and the Middle East to engage the imaginations of viewers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, especially young people.

The activity seeks to establish professional and educational exchange programs that advance values-based entertainment programming, content development and production, and production methods and business standards that also supports linking American industry and MENA regional established and emerging voices in television and episodic series production.

These exchanges will seek to advance American methods and standards of production, American media industry business values and practices, American industry linkages to the region and vice versa, while promoting a pluralistic, values-based, high quality future for the industry in the MENA region as the market for content continues to grow.