Middle-east Arab News Opinion | Asharq Al-awsat

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An NRJ radio studio in Paris. (AFP)

NRJ Radio Expands in Arab World

by Abdul Sattar Hatita | Apr 4, 2017 | Lifestyle & Culture

Cairo – The International radio station NRJ is rapidly expanding in the Arab world. After its English broadcasting experience in Lebanon, it launched a French station in Morocco last week and celebrated the opening of its first Arabic station, which will...

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Najdiyah Al-Hejailan speaks to Asharq Al-Awsat at the newspapers headquarters in London. (Asharq Al-Awsat/James Hanna)

First Saudi Female Radio Presenter: Self-belief is paramount

by Jocelyn Elia | Apr 13, 2014 | Media

London, Asharq Al-Awsat—Najdiyah Al-Hejailan is better known as Salwa Ibrahim, but it is her voice that is perhaps best known of all. She is a pioneer: hers was the first female voice to be broadcast on Saudi airwaves. Although Najdiyah only worked in the media for a...

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The N Seoul Tower is seen next to a traditional bower on the top of Nam mountain in Seoul on February 22, 2010. The tower was established as a Korea’s first total electric wave tower to send TV and radio broadcasts in Seoul metropolitan area in 1969. AFP PHOTO/JUNG YEON-JE (Photo credit should read JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images)

South Koreans on Arab Airwaves

by Joseph Braude | Jan 16, 2014 | The Majalla Magazine

As a child at home in the United States I used to listen to broadcasts from faraway places via shortwave radio, the transmission typically uneven and full of static. Today those distant voices come in clear as a bell, via streaming audio on any smartphone. Late the...

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File photo of Egyptian Information Minister Salah Abdel-Maksoud. (AAA)

Egypt’s Information Minister: The View from Maspero

by Mohammed Al-Shafey | Apr 28, 2013 | Interviews

Cairo, Asharq Al-Awsat—It is the second time in less than a year that Asharq Al-Awsat has paid a visit to Cairo’s Maspero building, headquarters of Egypt’s Radio and Television Union (ERTU), to meet with Egyptian information minister Salah Abdel-Maksoud....