BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Sudanese news agency Suna website [Unattributed report: "Minister of Information and Communication Concludes Visit to China"] Sudan: Minister of Information and Communication Concludes Visit to China Khartoum, 16 Nov. (SUNA) -The Minister of Information and Communication, Al-Zahawi Ibrahim Malik, has concluded a …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by Qatari newspaper Gulf Times website on 16 November Al-Jazeera English's (AJE) editorial policy has been set to be the voice of the voiceless and to cover the under-represented areas of the world, head of output John Pullman told Gulf Times yesterday. "Our …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based newspaper Al-Sharq al-Awsat website on 5 November [Article by Hamad al-Majid: "Saudis and Hatred: Provocation or Victims?"] The decision by some respected British newspapers to accuse a number of British Islamic centres and institutions of publishing literature that encourages hatred of non-Muslims during …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by privately-owned Lebanese newspaper The Daily Star website on 16 November Beirut, 16 November: The Lebanese Broadcasting Station (LBC) television decided to call off an interview with Lebanese Forces (LF) leader Samir Ja'ja after he filed a lawsuit against the station and its …

BBC Monitoring Reports from Gaza on 14 November said that the Hamas movement, which took control of the territory by force in June this year, was imposing stricter controls on the media, especially Palestinian journalists. The Interior Ministry in Gaza announced on the 14th that journalists who did not hold …

BBC Monitoring Text of report in English by state-owned Sudanese news agency Suna website [Unattributed report: "Al-Ma'arifa TV channel to begin transmission on 25 November"] Khartoum, 14 November: Chairman of Sudan Broadcasting and Television Corporation and head of the board of directors of Al-Ma'arifa (knowledge) TV channel, Dr Amin Hassan …

BBC Monitoring The Association of Muslim Scholars [AMS] in Iraq website in Arabic, the official Internet site of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq, posted, on 15 November, statement No 496 on the storming of its building by the private guards of the head of Sunni Waqf, Ahmad …

MideastWire On November 12, the Palestinian-owned al-Quds al-Arabi daily carried the following report by Anwar al-Qassem: “Nabih Birri’s saying that the Lebanese laundry can only be washed with an SS soap is true and by SS he meant Syria and Saudi Arabia. However, the implementation of this saying is awaiting …

MideastWire As’ad Abu Khalil, a professor of political science at California State University, Stanislaus and visiting professor at UC, Berkeley, wrote in the independent pro-opposition newspaper Al Akhbar on its first anniversary on November 9: “More than a year has passed since the publishing of the first issue of Al …

BBC Monitoring Ma'an News Agency in Arabic was observed to have resumed regular coverage at 1324 gmt on 9 November. At 2315 gmt, Ma'an in Arabic carries an item entitled "Mu'taz Al-Kurdi, Member of Board of Ma'an Network, Director of Al-Amal Television Channel, Released." The text of the item reads: …