An excerpt from the book "Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East," by Mohammed El-Nawawy and Adel Iskandar. Cambridge, MA: Westview Press, 2002. Thanks to Westview Press and the authors for permission to publish this excerpt. "Has the American media slogan become: 'No voice is louder than …

From the very beginning of Fouad Ajami's critique of Al-Jazeera television ("What the Muslim World is Watching," New York Times Magazine, November 18, 2001), it is evident that there is something amiss. All of the Muslim world cannot be watching Al-Jazeera since most of its 1.2 billion souls do not …

This article originally appeared in the Nov. 18, 2001 issue of the New York Times Magazine and is republished here by permission of the author. Al-Jazeera is not subtle television. Recently, during a lull in its nonstop coverage of the raids on Kabul and the street battles of Bethlehem, the …

If there's one channel in the Arab world much talked about, alternately lauded and bashed by various commentators in both the West and the Arab world, it's Al-Jazeera. Pre-September 11 (and pre-bin Laden tapes and exclusive Afghanistan coverage) western writers largely praised the channel for its open and independent coverage; …

Only a last-minute awaking of conscience among the perpetrators could have prevented the September 11 attack on the US. Its cross-cultural fallout between the Arabs and the United States, though, could have been averted. There is a genuine fear that the perpetrators, while they won the first round of battle …

A special report on the impact of 9/11 on the American entertainment industry and the TV Academy's panel "Hollywood Goes to War? Politics, Showbiz and the War on Terrorism"   Also in this issue: David Chambers spoke with Ally McBeal co-executive producer Alice West in March 2002 for a six-months post-9/11 …

While Washington asked the emir of Qatar to "rein in" Al-Jazeera, American networks were headed to Doha in search of a deal. It's nearly midnight in Doha, and we are in a cafe on a pier jutting out over the shoreline of the Persian Gulf. The cafe is empty and …

The seventh Cairo Arab Market for Radio and Television (CAMAR TV 2001), held in the Media Production City located in the desert outskirts of Cairo from July 3-8, was marked by an increase of activity by TV channels seeking to expand in the region and an attempt for many of …

Arab Digital Distribution (ADD) announced in late October a great coup in Middle East pay-TV: a deal with STAR to move all the STAR Select channels from Orbit to ADD, the platform provider for ART (Arab Radio and Television), starting Jan. 17, 2002. The move fits with ADD's general strategy, …

This article was first published in the book "The Mission: Journalism, Ethics, and the World," ed. Joe Atkins, published by the Iowa State University Press, and appears here by kind permission of the publishers. The past decade has witnessed radical changes in the structure and role of television in Lebanon. …