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The Media War in Syria
(MARWAN NAAMANI/AFP/Getty Images)Exactly a year after the breakout of the Syrian uprising, Al-Arabiya TV did something extraordinary: it broadcast blow-by-blow details of Syrian president Bashar...
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Leading the Way
Awateef Abu Malyana. Source: Ahmed El AmraouiWhen Awateef Abu Malyana told her family about her wish to become a journalist, their answer was an unequivocal “No.” Awateef’s case reflects the mentality...
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Under the Weight of Censorship
The daily newspaper Al-Ahram is sold in Tahrir Square on March 4 2011 in downtown Cairo, Egypt. Source: Kim Badawi/Getty Images “When are they going to fire you?” Hani Shukrallah was asked by his...
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Driven to Distraction
People stand in a building damaged in the twin car bombing in Reyhanlı, Turkey. BULENT KILIC/AFP/Getty Images On May 11, two powerful car bombs ripped through the Turkish town of Reyhanlı on the Syrian...
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Yemen in the Eye of the Beholder
A Yemeni woman shops for food at a market in the Old City of Sana’a on July 4, 2013, in preparation for the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan. (MOHAMMED HUWAIS/AFP/Getty Images)Scanning through the...
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Speakers’ Corner
Protesters use their slippers to hit portraits of famous Egyptian talk show hosts during a rally in front of Cairo’s University in support of Egypt’s Mohamed Mursi on December 1, 2012. KHALED...
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Syria’s Television Prism
Former Syrian president Hafez al-Assad (R) with his youngest brother Rifaat (L) at a military ceremony in Damascus in 1984. (AFP/Getty Images) In recent weeks, the Syrian Electronic Army has launched a...
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Building a Free Press in Yemen
Sheikh Mohamed Bin Issa Al Jaber (C-L) was joined by former US Presidential Adviser Dalia Mogahed (C), Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Tawakkol Karman (C-R) at the London launch of the MBI Al Jaber Media...
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Revolutionary Radio
Mahmoud Hassino (L) at Sout Raya’s studios in Istanbul. (Hannah Lucinda Smith)Five years ago, Syrian radio host Mahmoud Hassino came across the journal of a doctor from Hama. What he read there...
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Iran’s Fourth Estate
Iranians look at newspapers displayed outside a kiosk on November 24, 2013, in the capital, Tehran. (ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images) The state of the Iranian media can serve as a bellwether for...
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