The training will be attended by 20 young photo journalists from the Arab region, from Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Jordan, Morocco, Syria, South Sudan and Yemen. 

The participants from Yemen include Nadia Abdullah Moqbel Al-Akhram, freelance photographer and journalist at Yemen Shabab TV, Tarek Al Hammadi, photojournalist at Freedom Foundation and Mohammed Abdulaziz Qaid, freelance photographer who covered the 2011 uprisings. 

Tarek Al Hammadi said he welcomes this opportunity from UNESCO to receive training from renown photographers that will help him strengthen his skills as a young photographer working in conflict areas and "meet the need for professionalism and quality journalism in Yemen". 

The training on conflict sensitive reporting will be conducted by Frederique Cifuentes, an independent documentary filmmaker who also works as a freelance photojournalist who started her work in Sudan in 2002 and has since produced several photo-stories on the subject of Sudanese society, published and exhibited worldwide.

The workshop on photojournalism in the age of new media will be conducted by Slim Jerbia, a Tunisian photographer, film maker, blogger and citizen journalist who has gained worldwide recognition for his photographic coverage of the uprisings in Tunisia and is an alternative media expert. 

The sessions will include daily fieldwork in Amman as well as training on how to promote one's work using traditional and social media, ethics, reportage and technical skills, how to build a story, safety for freelancers in conflict areas.

The objective of the workshop is to empower young Arab photographers to use the power of photojournalism to create world-changing news coverage, especially in the post conflict Arab region. 

All trainees have been requested to produce a collection of images during the workshop that will soon be displayed on UNESCO's website.