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Finger Pointing
Flowers float on the water after being thrown by participants of a vigil walk near Utoya Island on July 26, 2011 In the aftermath of the bombing outside the offices of Norwegian Prime Minister Jens...
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Speak no Evil
The three wise monkeys sit at the site of India's historic freedom movement. There are concerns today over Tunisia's nascent democracy As the anniversary of Ben Ali’s departure approaches, many...
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Qatar Goes to the Movies
Antonio Banderas on the red carpet at the Doha Tribeca Fim Festival 2011 The Doha Film Institute (DFI) offers a wide array of programming—from the Doha Tribeca Film Festival, which just had its third...
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The Complicity of Cairo’s Press
A protester in Tahrir square holds up a newspaper that declares 'The flower blooms in Egypt', in February 2011 A few days before Christmas last year, and just after another wave of deadly rioting had...
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Assad: No News is Good News
Assad on Russian state television on Wednesday. (Photo: Reuters) Interviewed on Russian state television earlier this week, President Assad told his interviewer “They [the West] outplayed us… at the...
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The Media and the Revolution
An image grab taken from Syrian state TV shows Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad addressing the parliament in Damascus on June 3, 2012The Majalla: What was the level of polarization on both sides before...
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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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