BBC Monitoring text of report by London-based independent Quds Press web news agency, ["Abu-Zuhri Accuses Al-Jazeera of Using Double Standards in Dealing With Palestinian Affairs and Chief Editor Denies" - Quds Press headline] Gaza (Palestine) -Doha, 20 November 2007 (Quds Press) - A Hamas spokesman has complained of what he …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Iraqi TV station Al-Iraqiyah TV on 22 November The Iraqi media network has launched the Al-Fallujah FM radio in Al-Anbar Province with the aim of promoting the culture of dialogue and co-existence among all Iraqis. For their part, the citizens expressed their joy at …

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Steve Metcalf of BBC Monitoring on 20 November Since it opened in 2001 Dubai Media City has become a major hub for regional and international media. According to a recent report in the Saudi newspaper Al-Madina, 22 per cent of the 370 Arabic satellite TV channels …

BBC Monitoring Iraqi Kurdish press monitored between 5 and 20 November included reporting, but was not limited to, about a new media bill currently being discussed by the Kurdistan Region parliament. Coverage of corruption and human rights-related issues continues to be overshadowed by the ongoing Turkish-Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) crisis. …

BBC Monitoring Egyptian state TV's Wijhat Naza (Point of View) weekly programme, broadcast on 18 November on Channel 1, interviewed the newly-elected chairman of the Union of Journalists, Makram Muhammad Ahmad. Asked first to comment on the recent union elections, Ahmad said that it was held "in a perfect way" …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by independent, non-governmental Palestinian Ma'an News Agency website Bethlehem, 19 Nov: The management of Ma'an Network has signed a new contract with MEPI [the US State Department's Middle East Partnership Initiative] to fund a modern central television studio. State-of-the-art TV cameras, production, lighting and sound …

BBC Monitoring text of press release by International Federation of Journalists on 18 November The International Federation of Journalists today condemned the actions of the Dubai government which has shut down Pakistani media forced to operate from the United Arab Emirates after they were closed by the Pakistan government as …

BBC Monitoring Text of press release by Paris-based organization Reporters Sans Frontieres (RSF) on 18 November Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about the disappearance of Iraqi journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi of satellite TV station Al-Baghdadiyah, who was kidnapped in central Baghdad on 16 November. The news agency reports of …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Egyptian news agency MENA website [Passage omitted: already covered] Mr Makram Muhammad Ahmad has been jubilant over his winning the Union of Journalists chairman post. In statements to reporters after his victory, he said he would be a "chairman for all journalists in all …

BBC Monitoring Within its 0500 gmt newscast on 17 November, Beirut LBC Europe Satellite Television in Arabic reports that the "situation has returned to normal in front of the LBC building" following the demonstrations protesting the cancellation of an interview which was scheduled with Samir Ja'ja, chairman of the Executive …