Tuesday, December 6, 2011

A screen grab of the Rasoolullah channel on YouTube.

A screen grab of the Rasoolullah channel on YouTube. By SULTAN AL-TAMIMI

ARAB NEWS Published: Dec 4, 2011 21:40 Updated: Dec 5, 2011 11:20

JEDDAH: A new YouTube channel on the life, teachings and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him), is now online. Rasoolullah YouTube channel creators launched the video channel on the first day of the new Hijri year 1433, attracting hundreds of views already.

Rasoolullah channel creator Abdullah Saeed Al-Asmari told Arab News on Saturday: “The channel is made possible by the group effort of volunteers. Inshallah it will feature a series of episodes covering topics such as known supplications, Hadiths, and traditions of the Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him). All of these will be in Arabic with English subtitles.”

Al-Asmari, who is currently a communications major in Iowa in the US, has been involved with the traditional media for the past 10 years.“

Posting through YouTube gives you the chance to communicate better with your target audience. Also, feedback is instant when you use the Internet. The new generation is moving toward new media, Twitter, Facebook and others as opposed to traditional media,” said Al-Asmari.

Al-Asmari said Youtube provides a platform for startup video content, and gives the chance to see instant feedback from viewers.“

Feedback from viewers is important as it will allow us to make changes and improvements our audience will like and appreciate. Personally I am very optimistic over this project as we have received good moral support from many people, including some who offered some financial support,” said Al-Asmari.“

The second episode will be online very soon. We also have noticed that there aren’t many audiobooks published from the Arab world.“

Our team has published along with the channel a downloadable audiobook of parts of Ibn Kather’s books; also an audio book for children in Arabic as well as in English.”Visit the channel at http://www.youtube.com/user/Rasoolullah.

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