On behalf of Minister of Culture and Information Iyad bin Amin Madani, Prince Turki bin Sultan bin Abdulaziz, Assistant Minister of Culture and Information, who is also Supervisor for the Ministry's Activities in Hajj, attended the reception party hosted here yesterday by the Ministry to honor the ministry's guests and media delegates who took part in Hajj coverage. Addressing the gathering, Farah Al-Attasi, Head of the U.S. Arab Center for Translation, Research and Information, lauded the efforts of the Ministry to facilitate the job of media delegates who came to cover Hajj this year. She called on Muslim media delegates, intellectuals and thinkers who live outside the Islamic world to exert more efforts to reflect Islam's true and correct image in the foreign media. She suggested that the initiative of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud for dialogue among followers of religions and those who belong to different civilizations and cultures, has constituted the corner stone and a major nucleus for the principles of frank dialogue and openness towards other cultures, rejection of violence, hatred and fanaticism and call for tolerance, cordiality and compassion. --MORE
