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 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 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 …

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 …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by London-based, Saudi-owned Elaph website on 9 November [Report by Sayf al-Sani from Dubai: "The Information Minister Demanded Openness, So They Demanded More Freedom; Ilaf [Elaph] Infiltrates a Closed Meeting Between the Minister, Saudi Chief Editors"] Iyad Madani, Saudi minister of information and culture, has …

BBC Monitoring Text of report by Jordanian newspaper Al-Dustur on 8 November [Unattributed report: "Al-Sijil, a New Weekly Which Will Come Out Today."] The first edition of the weekly newspaper Al-Sijil [The Record] will come out today, Thursday [ 8 November]. Mustafa Hamarinah, a researcher at the Political and Strategic …

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: …

BBC Monitoring Doha Al-Jazeera Satellite Channel Television in Arabic, an independent television station financed by the Qatari Government, has been observed on 6 and 7 November to almost completely ignore the visit made by Saudi King Abdallah to the Vatican on 6 November in its newscasts and news programmes and …