Lina Sawan's is one of the most familiar faces on CNBC Arabiya. TBS caught her for a few words between programs. TBS: What do you do here at CNBC? I'm a presenter and the presentation advisor. I present a couple of shows. As presentation advisor, I'm in charge of training …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

  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 …

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 …

  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. …

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 …