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The politics of Al Jazeera…
Wadah Khanfar‘s apparent ousting from the board of Al Jazeera came after intervention by Mahmud Abbas and an Arab intelligence service. At least that’s the story that ran earlier this month in Jordanian magazine Al-Majd.The Jordanian weekly’s sources have this to say: …the removal of Khanfar from the Al-Jazeera board of directors was the first…
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James Bays
Old hollow legs himself is alive and well, after becoming a brief guest of the Taliban. The Al Jazeera English reporter found himself the story for a while, along with three Afghan colleagues: Afghan militants capture, release Al-Jazeera journalists Militants in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand province captured four journalists of Arab television network the Al-Jazeera and…
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Daniel Pearl’s dad on Al Jaz English
Judea Pearl, the father of murdered WSJ reporter Daniel Pearl writes on Al Jazeera English. The thrust of his piece is an attack on Al Jaz Arabic for airing Sunni cleric Sheikh Youssef El-Qaradawi‘s “Sharia and Life” programme. He uses this forum to preach his new morality to millions of Arabic-speaking viewers, including Hamas operatives,…
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Al Jazeera English in Pakistan
Growing anecdotal evidence of AJE‘s popularity in Pakistan from The Nation. Worth reading in full: Al Jazeera gaining viewershipFaheem Raza KARACHI – The Doha-based Al Jazeera TV is fast replacing the western channels such as the BBC and the CNN as a source of information and is in great demand in interior Sindh, Karachi and…