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 …

"Diversity or Anarchy: Current Debates in Broadcasting 10; Papers from the 31st Manchester Broadcasting Symposium." University of Luton Press, 2003. Paperback. 256 pages. 23 euros. Reviewed by Peter O'Brien, economist A reviewer should be up front about his biases. When the reviewer is a University of Chicago trained economist and …

Kellner, Douglas. From 9/11 to Terror War: The Dangers of the Bush Legacy. Rowman and Littlefield: Oxford. 2003. ISBN 0-7425-2637-2. $21.95. Reviewed by Rasha El-Ibiary, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne Douglas Kellner's book, From 9/11 to Terror War, provides the reader with an interestingly critical overview of US foreign policy post 9/11, …

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 …

Fouda, Yosri and Nick Fielding Masterminds of Terror: The Truth Behind The Most Devastating Terrorist Attack The World Has Ever Seen. Mainstream Publishing Ltd: Edinburgh. 2003. 208 pages. ISBN 1 84018 724 7. Reviewed by Rasha El-Ibiary, University of NewcastleUpon Tyne Masterminds of Terror documents how an Arab television reporter landed interviews with …

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 …

Schechter, Danny. Media Wars: News at a Time of Terror. Paperback. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland. 2003. 234 pages. ISBN 0-7425-3109-0. US$23. Hachten, William A. and James F. Scotton. The World News Prism: Global Media in an Era of Terrorism. 6th edition. Paperback. Iowa State Press: Ames, Iowa. 2002. 204 pages. ISBN …

As of the last week of October 2003, Al Jazeera has a new manager. And the choice, former Baghdad bureau chief and correspondent Waddah Khanfar, is significant. During the Iraqi war, he reported from Kurdish-controlled territory in the north; with the collapse of the Baath regime, Khanfar took over the …

  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 …

"The Far Side of the Satellite" is an occasional series of articles challenging the conventional wisdom regarding contemporary mass media. In this essay, delivered at IKIM (Institute for Islamic Understanding, Malaysia) conference on "The Impact of Globalization on Social and Cultural Life: an Islamic Response" held in Kuala Lumpur in …