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Iranian provincial officials note important role of media

BBC Monitoring Excerpt from report by Vision of the Islamic Republic of Iran West Azarbayjan Provincial TV on 15 August [Presenter] The eighth nationwide conference of heads of TV and Radio Organization started in Orumiyeh today. Our reporter has more: [Correspondent] The deputy head of the Iranian Majlis affairs department …

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Al-Qadhafi’s son launches Libya’s first private satellite TV

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat website on 16 August [Report by Khalid Mahmud in Cairo: "Al-Qadhafi's Son Launches New Satellite Channel"] Engineer Sayf-al-Islam, the son of Libyan leader Colonel Mu'ammar al-Qadhafi, launched last night the test transmission of a new Libyan satellite channel called "Al-Libiyah", …

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Moroccan media clampdown worries election observers

BBC Monitoring Text of report by French news agency AFP Rabat, 16 August: Foreign observers monitoring elections in Morocco next month expressed unease on Thursday [16 August] at court cases involving journalists, which they described as impinging press freedom. "There have been notable challenges to press freedoms in advance of …

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Palestinian minister says media at forefront of Gaza

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Israeli newspaper The Jerusalem Post website on 14 August The Palestinian Authority [PA] government will recover Gaza sooner than people think, PA Information Minister Riyad al-Maliki told a group of Israeli and Palestinian journalists in Ramallah on Tuesday [14 August]. "We're working …

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Moroccan journalist imprisoned for publishing

BBC Monitoring Text of report by French news agency AFP Casablanca (Morocco), 15 August 2007: A Moroccan journalist with the [Arabic-language] weekly, Al Watan Al An, was sentenced to eight months' imprisonment today, Wednesday, while the paper's editor was given a six-month suspended sentence for the publication of "confidential documents" …

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Analysis: Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV under fire at home and abroad

BBC Monitoring Analysis by Peter Feuilherade of BBC Monitoring on 15 August The power struggle between rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas is increasingly reflected in attempts by both sides to assert their control over media outlets. Earlier this week, the Hamas-controlled Executive Force intervened to stop journalists covering a …

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Turkey: Outspoken Hurriyet columnist said dismissed

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Turkish newspaper Sabah website on 15 August Emin Colasan, a known opponent of the government, has been silenced. Colasan had worked for Hurriyet for 22 years. Emin Colasan, a Hurriyet columnist known for his opposition to the government, has been fired. When it was …

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Lebanon’s Media Sectarianism

Politics have become so divisive in Lebanon that the national media council chief urged the media in January to curb "tense rhetoric" that could instigate violence among the country's religious sects, writes Contributing Editor Paul Cochrane. So what are the media up to? Are they guilty of fanning the flames?

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May, 2007. Politics has become so divisive in Lebanon, on the streets and on TV screens, that the national media council chief urged the media in January to curb "tense rhetoric" that could instigate violence among the country's religious sects.[1] Lebanon was plunged into a power struggle on December 1, …

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