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Profile: Al Jazeera
From its launch in 1996 Al Jazeera has revolutionized the rules of Arab television news while challenging western dominance in setting the agenda of perceptions about the Middle East.

The National Joins Media Landscape in the United Arab Emirates
The National is the latest of a half-dozen English-language newspapers and on-line publications to join the diverse media environment of the United Arab Emirates. But diversity doesn't necessarily mean press freedom.

Watching al-Jazeera
What's really on the Arab world's most-watched network?

Oprah's Quiet Conquest of Arab Airwaves
Could Oprah’s 48 minutes a day on Arab TV, twice a day, be a more powerful and positive force of social subversion in the Middle East than George W. Bush’s missionary armies could ever hope to be?