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Topic: Al Arabiya


In the News (Wed 8 Oct 08)

  
  Al Arabiya News Channel
Al Arabiya News Channel was launched on March 3, 2003 to quench the thirst for credible, timely and relevant news about the Arab world.
Al Arabiya's program grid is designed to attract diverse audience segments, making it the perfect channel to target all types of "information seekers", be it young or old, male or female.
Al Arabiya is part of MBC Group, the largest news and entertainment broadcaster in the Middle East, reaching an estimated 130 million Arabic-speaking people around the world.
www.alarabiya.net /english.html   (1462 words)

  
  Al-Arabiya - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Al Arabiya (Arabic: العربية) is an Arabic speaking news channel established in March 3, 2003 to be one of the region's most credible 24-hour news channels.
The station is based in Dubai, and is owned by members of the Saudi Royal family, the broadcaster MBC and "a number of Arab investors".
Like its contemporary, the Qatar based news channel Al Jazeera, Al-Arabiya is well known for its ability to break fast-moving news stories and for the occasional airing of video statements from extremist groups.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Al-Arabiya   (127 words)

  
 albawaba.com middle east news information::Al Arabiya excels in speed and objectivity and in bringing Arab viewers ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Al Arabiya has sent a dedicated news team to support its existing work team that is operating from its office in Lebanon.
Al Arabiya played a vital and important role in airing real life situations and events in each polling station to provide Arab viewers with the true feeling inside each station and allow them to know the various political agendas and activities of the candidates and their meetings with their constituents in different parts across Lebanon.
In fact, al Arabiya was the first voter in the election process - the first to announce the preliminary results from its Beirut office as its news team, spread across the various polling stations, had firsthand access to the results of the Beirut elections.
www.albawaba.com /en/countries/UAE/184271   (625 words)

  
 US moves to silence Iraq's most popular TV news channel
The official pretext for the closure was Al Arabiya’s November 16 broadcast of an audiotape purported to carry the voice of ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein.
Al Arabiya’s news editor and journalists strongly protested that their channel was being victimised, pointing out that the audiotape was broadcast from Dubai, not Baghdad, and that other networks had also played the tape.
The ban on Al Arabiya is part of a wider Washington push to smother all coverage of the growing resistance to its occupation.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/nov2003/iraq-n28.shtml   (1408 words)

  
 cmf2006: Speaker - Ammar Bakkar
As the Head of New Media, he is the Editor-in-Chief of Al Arabiya, a news portal associated with Al Arabiya News Channel.
Al Arabiya was launched to quench the audience's thirst for credible, trustworthy, timely, and relevant news.
Al Arabiya is a part of the MBC Group.
cmf2006.dk /ammar_bakkar   (557 words)

  
 Zogby International
While Al Jazeera anchors sit at a desk in front of a drab two-dimensional backdrop that looks a little like a local American news set from the 1970's, Al Arabiya's news is broadcast from the floor of its futuristic in-the-round silver-and-glass newsroom.
One Al Arabiya host told me that she had been instructed to cut off guests who digress into anti-American rants, and other hosts I spoke to said they were being encouraged to ask tougher questions in their interviews.
Al Arabiya's correspondent has been prohibited from reporting for the last eight months by the government of Abdelaziz Bouteflika, the recently elected president: during the election, the reporter had predicted that Bouteflika's rival would win.
www.zogby.com /soundbites/ReadClips.dbm?ID=10632   (7614 words)

  
 Link TV | Dubai
Al-Arabiya was created to compete with Al Jazeera in providing an alternative to foreign news broadcasts.
Though its coverage is sometimes viewed as provocative, founder Walid al Ibrahim reportedly views the work of the station as a step toward advancing the Arab World and freeing it from dictatorship and repression.
Al Arabiya is one of the most watched satellite news networks in the Arab world.
www.linktv.org /mosaic/broadcasters/dubai   (372 words)

  
 Al Arabiya seeks media niche - The Washington Times: World Briefings   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
Al Arabiya's staff in Iraq has been threatened with death from pro-Saddam renegades and is being criticized by the U.S.-appointed Iraqi Governing Council as well as the State Department.
Al Arabiya's real battle, though, is a war of the Arab airwaves, in which the newcomer has fared remarkably well against its longer-established rival.
Al Arabiya has outmaneuvered Al Jazeera by airing exclusive interviews with Saddam's daughters and with his ousted information minister, Muhammad Saeed al-Sahaf — though in the latter case Al Arabiya was upstaged by another rival, Abu Dhabi Television.
washtimes.com /world/20030930-084106-1086r.htm   (1670 words)

  
 Al Arabiya business roundtable: Regional media experts meet in Dubai | Al Arabiya
Senior members of Al Arabiya will be opening discussions on various topics ranging from the development of business media in the Arab world to the importance of business programming for regional economies, with globalization as a background and the need for wider business industry involvement in the evolution of business specific media.
Launched in 2003, Al Arabiya News Channel, a member of MBC media group, has quickly become one of the major news broadcasters in the Arab world lauded for its professional best-practices and work ethics.
Al Arabiya has been at the forefront of speedy - yet accurate - field reporting, maintaining a clear distinction between news and opinion, in addition to its considered and sober news and current affairs analysis.
www.ameinfo.com /67563.html   (726 words)

  
 Al Arabiya - SourceWatch
Al Arabiya is a Dubai-based, 24-hour satellite TV news channel, established in February 2003 as "a more moderate alternative to Al Jazeera."
Al Arabiya and its parent network, the Middle East Broadcasting Center are owned by Sheik Walid al-Ibrahim, the brother-in-law of King Fahd of Saudi Arabia.
The Jihadist Martyrs Brigades has called the station a "terrorist channel." The group also claimed it was responsible for an October 2004 car bomb attack on Al Arabiya's Baghdad office, which killed five station employees and wounded dozens more.
www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=Al_Arabiya   (365 words)

  
 US menaces Al Jazeera over Iraq reportage
Al Arabiya rejected Wolfowitz’s accusations as “pure slander” and said US troops were not liberators but an “occupying force”.
Al Jazeera officials explicitly warned the US military not to target the building but were ignored.
Al Jazeera journalist Nawaf Al Shahwani was detained by US troops in the northern Iraqi town of Mosul after he filmed them opening fire on Iraqi civilians.
www.wsws.org /articles/2003/aug2003/aljz-a27.shtml   (1057 words)

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