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Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East.

Publication: Political Science Quarterly
Publication Date: 22-JUN-03 		Format: Online - approximately 895 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East.(Book Review)

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by Mohammed el-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar. Boulder, CO, Westview, 2002. 228 pp. $24.00.

For decades, the Arab world was forced to rely on national presses that were often monitored or controlled by authoritarian regimes or Western media, BBC, CNN, etc. In recent years, there has been a proliferation of Arab newspapers and satellite television stations. None has been more successful nor more controversial than al Jazeera. As Americans post-September 11 struggled with the questions, "Why do they hate us?" and "Why is anti-Americanism so widespread?" few realized that a powerful source of al Jazeera's success was its graphic coverage of the second intifada or Palestinian uprising. Arabs and Muslims across the world could have their morning cup of coffee or evening dinner and see live reports from Israel-Palestine or other parts of the...

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