BY: EMRE GÖNEN* The world’s news networks have been dominated by four major press agencies since the second half of the 20th century. These are Reuters, Agence France Presse, Associated Press and the United Press International. [ More … ]
Israel’s prime minister has vowed to expel Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera, claiming the network is “inciting” violence as tensions have flared at the al-Aqsa mosque. Israel’s prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to expel Qatari [ More … ]
Ahmed Mousa, a pro-regime TV presenter, has called on Egyptians working in Qatar to demonstrate in front of the headquarters of Al-Jazeera channel to protest against the channel’s policy. Mousa said the Egyptians’ protest could [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE and Egypt push back by 48 hours deadline on 13 demands made to Doha The Saudi-led axis of powers has extended by 48 hours a deadline on 13 demands issued to [ More … ]
Saudi Arabia and allies boycotting Qatar have issued a list of demands that includes shutting down the Doha-based al Jazeera channel and cutting diplomatic ties to Iran. Kuwait has given Qatar a list of demands [ More … ]
In response to recent Saudi and Emirati media provocations, the Qatari channel Al Jazeera has issued a report defending Morocco’s sovereignty over the Western Sahara. The report criticizes a short documentary broadcasted by Saudi-owned channel [ More … ]
BY: Soumaya Ghannoushi* The Qatar-Gulf crisis is a battle rooted in the aborted first wave of the Arab Spring. So far, Arab despots have succeeded in curbing democratic change in the region, but their latest [ More … ]
Qatar said it had pulled all of its troops from the border of Djibouti and Eritrea, East African nations that have a long-running territorial dispute which Doha had helped mediate. Qatar said on Wednesday it [ More … ]
Qatar on Friday denounced a terrorism blacklist published by Saudi Arabia and its allies which linked individuals and organisations in Doha to support for militant groups, describing it as ‘baseless’. Qatar on Friday denounced a [ More … ]
Reporters Without Borders condemned Saudi Arabia’s decision to close the Riyadh office of Qatar’s Al-Jazeera broadcaster on Wednesday, after the kingdom and other Arab states severed ties with the emirate. An international media rights watchdog [ More … ]
Qatari viewers and social media users are cancelling their OSN subscription after the Saudi-owned TV network blocked the Doha-based al-Jazeera channel. Qataris and expatriates are cancelling their subscriptions to OSN after the Saudi-owned TV network [ More … ]
Egypt has banned 21 websites, including the main website of Qatar-based al Jazeera television, claiming that they are “supporting terrorism”, according to Reuters. Reuters said that it had tried to access five websites named by local [ More … ]
The New Khaleej news site has published an exclusive report based on an official document that Abbas Kamel, al-Sisi’s chief aide and head of his office, was among the founders of DMC, the Egyptian TV channels [ More … ]
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused the Egyptian regime for supporting Fethullah Gulen Terrorist Organization (FETO), which was founded by Turkish cleric Fethullah Gulen, who has been accused of masterminding the failed coup attempt [ More … ]
Activists on the social networking sites have expressed their outrage and anger toward the Arab officials who attended the funeral of former Israeli President Shimon Peres and expressed their condolences to Peres’s family and the [ More … ]
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