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Broadcasting Live from Doha – Al Jazeera Revolutionizes Middle Eastern Media When peaceful demonstrators took over Tahrir Square in Egypt in February 2011 to demand a regime change, Al Jazeera reporters were there broadcasting live from the scene. Often the first network to broadcast breaking news from around the Middle East, Al Jazeera has become the Arab world’s most influential television channel. The 24-hour Arabic-language satellite television news network first went on the air on November 1, 1996. Initially funded by the State of Qatar, the network was established shortly after H.H. Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani, Emir of Qatar, came to power in 1995. Pledging to reform the country’s media, the Emir abolished press censorship and launched Al Jazeera. “The result has been a sensation in the 22 Arab nations where Al Jazeera’s broadcasts can be seen,” wrote John Burns of The New York Times several years after the network was launched. “In Algiers’ Kasbah, in Cairo’s slums, in the suburbs of Damascus, even in the desert tents of Bedouin with satellite dishes, the channel has become a way of life.” Today, Al Jazeera can be seen around the world. Headquartered in Doha, it broadcasts to more than 220 million households in over 100 countries. The network has 65 bureaus around the globe – including Washington, D.C. – employing 3,000 staff members and more than 400 journalists from approximately 60 countries. The international English-language network went on the air in November 2006. Veteran journalists from ABC Nightline as well as other top news outfits joined the fledgling network. Sir David Frost, renowned British journalist and former talk show host agreed to provide commentary. One of the English-language network’s flagship programs – The Riz Khan Show – allows viewers from around the world to call in and pose questions to world leaders, newsmakers and celebrities. The show is broadcast live every Monday through Thursday. Al Jazeera’s English-language network is currently available in three U.S.cities: Toledo, Ohio, Burlington, Vermont and Washington, D.C. Al Jazeera’s political reporting has often ruffled feathers with Qatar’s neighbors in the region and elsewhere around the globe, including in the United States. Nevertheless, the network’s scrappy reporting continues to win numerous awards from international organizations, including the International Emmys, The Foreign Press Association, and Amnesty International. The Doha Debates Organized by the Qatar Foundation, the globally televised Doha Debates were founded by former BBC correspondent Tim Sebastian in 2004. Televised eight times per year by BBC World News, the debates tackle vital and often controversial political issues in the Middle East and beyond. The debates are based on a centuriesold format refined by the famous Oxford Union. Similar to the Town Hall format, each debate focuses on a single, controversial topic with two speakers for and against. Once the arguments are outlined, the discussion is opened up to the audience. Speakers and members of the audience are drawn primarily from Qatar’s student body and come from all over the Arab and Islamic worlds. The Doha Debates are a unique venture in the Arab world, allowing young Arabs to express their opinions openly on key political issues. Because of the BBC’s large viewing audience – more than 300 million viewers in 200 countries – the debates attract widespread international attention. 38 NUSACC • www.nusacc.org
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