Mideast Wire On March 13, the Palestinian-owned Al-Quds al-Arabi daily carried the following lead editorial: “A senior Israeli official announced yesterday his government’s decision to boycott Al-Jazeera satellite channel because it was biased in favor of the Palestinians in its coverage of the Israeli war in the Gaza Strip. This …

Mideast Wire On March 11, the Hamas-backed newspaper Filistin reported: "The ministry of information has denounced the campaign that a number of Palestinian sides have been waging against the Al-Jazeera Satellite Television Channel, deeming this as an old and not new onslaught that does not represent the Palestinian national and …

Principles for Regulating Satellite Broadcasting Transmission In the Arab World. Unofficial English translation.

The Arab League Satellite Broadcasting Charter is not so much different than the charters of many of the world’s broadcasting networks, such as NHK, BBC, and others, argues Hussein Y.Amin.

The Arab Satellite Charter is a potent mix of over-regulation and unclear direction where the vocabulary of modernization collides with the rhetoric of tradition, and the realities of political change conflict with the desire to preserve the status quo, write Monroe Price.

 Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRinfo), Cairo **Updates IFEX alerts of 20 and 13 February 2008** (HRinfo/IFEX) - The following is a 5 March 2008 joint statement by HRinfo, the Bahrain Center for Human Rights (BCHR), the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies (CIHRS) and 31 other organisations: 34 …

Mideast Wire On March 5, the Qatari newspaper Al-Sharq carried the following report by Lubna Sha’lan: “The news satellite channel Al-Jazeera has apologized to all its viewers for utterances by the guest of last Tuesday's "The Opposite Direction" programme, which disgraced the religion of Islam and divine beliefs. The channel …

Mideast Wire On March 6, the Saudi-owned news website Elaph reported: “Akram al-Jindi, member of the Syrian People's Assembly and owner of "Sham Channel" which was closed in Syria after which he was forced to transmit from Cairo, launched a sharp attack on Syrian officials and said the corruption circles …

Mideast Wire Elaph, an independent Saudi owned news website, wrote on February 26: “In Saudi Arabia, when a column written by any writer or journalist is blocked by the editor in chief, then the options facing that writer are very limited: either he dumps the column in the garbage can …

Mideast Wire Ibrahime Al-Amine, chairman of the board of directors of the independent pro-opposition newspaper Al-Akhbar, wrote on February 22: “How can Amr Moussa, the secretary general of the Arab League, save himself from this spider's web strangling Lebanon and the region? Up till last night, all the ideas were …