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A man reads a free newspaper with the headline “Crimea chooses Russia” on a street in Simferopol, in the Crimea region on March 17, 2014. (Reuters/Sergei Karpukhin)

Opinion: New media is a double-edged sword

by Ali Ibrahim | Oct 22, 2014 | Opinion

During a news conference following his meeting in Cairo on Sunday with Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi, Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir—who appears to have some sort of gripe with the media—said: “In the past, we used to say that people followed the religion...

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Arabic language daily newspapers sold in Iraq on July 26, 2009 (AHMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP/Getty Images)

The Arab Media’s Pursuit of a Scoop

by Amir Taheri | Oct 20, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—One question all news junkies ask is: where have I seen this item before? The origin of a news story, its trajectory across the global media, and its eventual fade from view are part of the excitement that it relays. Those who browse the Arab...

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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures during a news conference at his office in Jerusalem on August 6, 2014. (Reuters/Jim Hollander/Pool)

Opinion: Joining Israel’s Blame Game

by Salman Al-dossary | Aug 11, 2014 | Opinion

The anger felt by many Saudis was expressed by Prince Turki Al-Faisal in an article, ‘The Denial of Saudi Efforts toward the Helpless,’ published in this newspaper last Wednesday, and in which he wrote about “the outrageous attempts by the Israeli government and its...

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Osman Mirghani, chief editor of the Al-Tayar daily, lies on his bed after he was severely beaten by armed men who raided the offices of the Sudanese newspaper earlier this week, on July 24, 2014 in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman. (AFP/Ebrahim Hamid)

Sudanese newspaper editor denies pro-Israel stance after attack

by Mustafa Sirri | Jul 26, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—The editor-in-chief of Sudan’s privately-owned Al-Tayar newspaper, Osman Mirghani, has denied calling for Khartoum to normalize relations with Israel in the wake of an armed attack on the newspaper’s headquarters, allegedly over his pro-Israeli...

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File photo of Arabic-language newspapers taken on July 26, 2009.
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Mark Gregory Hambley: Coverage of the Arab–Israeli conflict is biased on both sides

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Jul 21, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Thanks to the presence of a number of pan-Arab newspapers and media outlets (including Asharq Al-Awsat) in London, for the last decade the US Embassy in the city has played host to one of the State Department’s Regional Media Hubs which aims to...