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 …

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" …

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 …

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?

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, …

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 …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Palestinian Ma'an News Agency website Bethlehem - Ma'an: Former BBC Gaza correspondent Alan Johnston has thanked Palestinians for their part in the campaign to get him released. Forty-five-year old Johnston was kidnapped at gunpoint by a group called the Army of Islam …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Hayat website on 12 August [Report by Fathi Sabbah in Gaza] Several Palestinian forces, factions, and organizations have denounced the arrest of some Fatah Movement activists, including two movement leaders in the northern Gaza Strip, by elements of the Executive Force of …

BBC Monitoring Dubai Al-Arabiya Television carries at 0908 gmt on 13 August the following announcer-read report: "Al-Arabiya's correspondent in Gaza has reported that members of the Hamas-affiliated Executive Force stormed Al-Arabiya's offices and confiscated filming equipment. The correspondent said that the Executive Force confiscated a camera on the grounds that …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Saudi newspaper Arab News website on 7 August Riyadh, 7 August: A new social affairs and marketing channel, Al-Mutahadith, was launched in Riyadh recently. Salih Abd al-Rahman Al-Abd al-Latif, director of Al-Mutahadith Company for Communication and Information Technology, signed the deal with …