CNN, a leader in the world of news and an estimable channel on the Orbit platform, focuses on the powerful and political in a week of special live programming from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, culminating in ‘CNN Connects: Freedom to Choose’, an hour long live debate featuring some of the Middle East’s foremost thinkers, politicians and executives. Some of the guest key-players of the region include: Mohamed A. Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar Properties, United Arab Emirates; Saif al Islam al Gaddafi, President of Gaddafi International Foundation for Charity Associations, Libya; Ali Hamadé, Journalist and Editorialist, An-Nahar Group, Lebanon; Amre Moussa, Secretary-General of League of Arab States, Cairo; H.H. Sheikh Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa, Crown Prince and Commander-\-Chief of the Bahrain Defence Force; Ahmed M. Al Sheikh, Editor-in-Chief, Al Jazeera Satellite Channel, Qatar; Shimon Peres, Vice-Prime Minister of Israel and Chairman of the Labour Party.
