TBS: When did you start broadcasting? Siddiqi: We went on air July 27th. TBS: In the short time since that launch, I think you've come a long way. Could you evaluate for us now what you did to achieve this and what you plan to do? Siddiqi: The idea was to establish …
Read More »From in front of the Camera to behind the Scenes: An Interview with Riz Khan
Riz Khan, veteran reporter and interviewer for BBC and CNN, was seeking inspiration for a new direction. Sehr Karim interviewed him for TBS. TBS: Riz, you are a man who has taken on many challenges including Q & A, a documentary on the Hajj and Hardtalk Pakistan and India for the BBC—so you …
Read More »A TV-Newspaper Joint Venture Moves Cautiously: An Interview with Jihad Khazen, advisor to LBC-Al Hayat
When TBS interviewed Jihad Khazen in the fall of 2002 (TBS 9 Super News Center Setting Up in London for Al Hayat and LBC: An Interview with Jihad Khazen and Salah Nemett), the LBC satellite channel and Al Hayat newspaper were on the verge of initiating a partnership. The alliance …
Read More »Less News is Good News for Abu Dhabi TV :: Ali Al Ahmad, director of Abu Dhabi TV
Ali Al Ahmad, director of Abu Dhabi TV, and Nart Bouran ( see TBS 10 Interview with Nart Y. Bouran, Director of the Abu Dhabi TV News Center ) were in Dubai on October 8, 2003 to observe the Arab Media Summit. Abdallah Schleifer interviewed them for TBS. TBS: Abu Dhabi came …
Read More »Yosri Fouda
TBS: It seems to me Al Jazeera is at a critical point. In contrast to the Afghan War, which you covered --at least from the Taliban side-- largely by yourself and without any Arab competition, this last Iraq War provided the Arab satellite TV audience with an extraordinarily competitive field—you …
Read More »Adnan Sharif
Adnan Sharif, who took over as manager of Al Jazeera from Mohammed Jasim Al Ali in the spring, is one of the Al Jazeera's founders, having made the initial studies for the channel while he was in London, where he started work in 1989 as a current affairs and …
Read More »Ibrahim Helal and Amr El-Kahky
S. Abdallah Schleifer interviews Ibrahim Helal, editor-in-chief, and Amr El-Kahky, correspondent. TBS: Do you consider the latest Gulf War as still another turning point for Al Jazeera, in the sense that the Afghan War was when Al Jazeera established itself as a global rather than only a regional player in …
Read More »Orbit TV Enters New Territory – Felix Serhan, Orbit’s vice president and managing director
On the summer of 2003, Orbit Satellite Television and Radio Network announced the launch of its Direct-To-Home broadcast services and a full range of viewing and entertainment applications in the Egyptian market. TBS correspondent Hala Abdulrahman reviewed Orbit's offerings and interviewed Felix Serhan, Orbit's vice president and managing director. …
Read More »The “Al Jazeera Effect”—Interviews with “the channel with the reputation”
TBS visited Qatar to touch base with the granddaddy of the Arab all-news satellite channels, al-Jazeera, which, at seven years of age and with much water (and a fair amount of blood) under the bridge, is in a reflective mood. A lot has changed since Al Jazeera first showed the …
Read More »Cyba Audi
While TBS was visiting CNBC Arabiya, Cyba Audi was on the monitors all over the building presenting her show Kalam al Suq. Later we caught up with her for a chat. TBS: Tell us what you were doing before? Audi: At CNBC Arabiya I present two shows, Kalam al Suq ("Market Talk") …
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