Rawafed is a flagship Al Arabiya television programme, consisting of half-hour documentary broadcast once a week (Wednesday) on Al Arabiya News Channel. Its host and director is Ahmad Ali El Zein, whose style of smooth questioning brought a huge world audience to the show. Launched in 2003, it was awarded in 2010 the golden prize for the best cultural and educational program at the 10th edition of the Gulf Media Festival.Golf Festival for Radio & Televisio

� "Al Arabiya Net" February 13, 2010 Threw a wealth of visuals from the guests' real lives Rawafed takes the viewer as close as possible into the world of intellectuals, artists, scientists who have enriched and still enrich the human knowledge and experience. Through a friendly interview,

Ahmad Ali El Zein Ahmad Ali El Zein (born 1956) is a Lebanese novelist, documentary film maker and television journalist. He is best known for his trilogy of novels, ''The Edge of Oblivion'' (2007), ''Suhbat al-Tayer'' (2010) and ''Barid al-Ghouroub'' (2014). He l ...

highlights their experiences, presents their works, and explores their opinions about the latest issues and development occurring in the world of culture, arts, science and other matters of public interests. The program have hosted since 2003 a number of most important Arabic intellectuals and artists, such Mohamad Arkoun, the Franco-Moroccan writer and poet Taher Ben Jelloun, the liberal theologian Nasr Hamid Abu Zayd, Abd al-Rahman Mounif the Saudi novelist etc... Rawafed, one of the most watched TV programs, was awarded in 2010 the golden prize for the best cultural and educational program at the 10th edition of the Gulf Media Festival.

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* {{Official website, http://www.alarabiya.net/programs/rawafed.html Arabic-language television