Acting as the eyes and ears of the Arab world, Al Jazeera Mubasher was launched in early to give viewers real-time footage of global and regional events. Remote feeds and on-the-ground cameras broadcast political gatherings, press conferences, discussions and meetings, bringing audiences the latest on political, social, cultural and economic affairs.
Screenshot from Al Jazeera Mubasher. A branch of Mubasher focused on Egypt Mubasher Misr was launched during the Arab revolts against dictatorship in Amidst a relentless clampdown on the channel's journalists, Mubasher Misr was suspended on December 23, For 11 years, the Festival and annual awards ceremony became a meeting point for filmmakers and innovators worldwide.
Al Jazeera's film festival was a major event in the region up until The first year focused on Arabic-language made-for-TV productions only. The second year accepted entries from the Arab and non-Arab world. By the third year, documentary feature films ie, not produced for television were included, and this continued until the last time the Festival was held: November , In the spring of , Al Jazeera was one of the first media organisations to provide extensive reporting on the depth of the famine in Niger.
Tens of thousands of people in central Africa were on the verge of starving to death. Coverage of the famine in Niger After the crisis received global attention - due to the reporting of several media organizations, and a concerted diplomatic effort - aid trickled into the region.
In November , an unidentified assasilant attacked Ahmed Mansour, one of Al Jazeera's star talk-show hosts in Egypt. Security forces confiscated her tapes and charged her with tarnishing the country's reputation.
Taha produced a documentary on the torture of citizens in Egyptian police stations. Al Jazeera is a consistent target of hacks from states and non-state actors. One of the few free and fair elections in the Arab world took place in the occupied Palestinian territories on January 25, Al Jazeera provided blanket coverage of the vote for a legislature, and was the first to report that Hamas had won while other media organizations were waffling.
After it became clear that the two major Palestinian parties would not be able to create a government of national unity, and the world community moved to nullify the results of the elections, Al Jazeera named the Hamas government in Gaza, "the deposed government," much to the ire of the Palestinian Authority, based in Ramallah. Al Jazeera had a significant role in reporting the July war from both sides of the borders.
Its correspondents covered the loss of life - more than 1, Lebanese and Israelis - and the severe damage to Lebanon's civilian infrastructure. Hundreds of thousands of people were displaced on both sides of the conflict. The Al Jazeera Center for Studies was founded in to provide deep research and data to Al Jazeera's journalists, and provide public platforms for the global exchange of ideas.
The Center is home to world-class researchers and authors. The Center hosts ad hoc seminars and background briefings by opinion leaders and decision makers, and publishes policy briefs and analysis throughout the year. The Center organizes the annual Al Jazeera Forum, bringing thinkers, politicians, academics and journalists together to discuss regional and global transformations.
The Index is the result of an international survey of over 1, scholars, public and private donors, policy makers, and journalists who help rank more than 6, think tanks using a set of criteria developed at the University.
The channel was a major investment in the future of global media, bringing together some of the best English-speaking journalists from anywhere in the world together, under one roof.
At launch, the channel broadcast from Kuala Lumpur, London, Washington and Doha, but over time, the major news studios were set in Doha and London.
Original concept for Doha newsroom and studio of Al Jazeera English. In the channel's newsrooms, people from dozens of different nationalities focused on the concerns of the Global South, providing fresh perspectives on the issues of our times. For years, the channel's motto was, "Voice of the Voiceless.
Within months of launch, the Channel cemented its position as a global presence in the media landscape, attracting audiences of millions in all four corners of the globe. In , Al Jazeera was one of the few media organisations that managed to enter Ogaden, a bitterly disputed region between Somalia and Ethiopia. Al Jazeera filed five reports on the conditions of the residents of the province, triggering years of tension between Ethiopia and Al Jazeera. The Channel supports Arab filmmaking by serving as an advocate for the Arab documentary industry.
It airs portraits of the people and places that make up our world—raising awareness and inspiring millions of people across the Middle East. Al Jazeera Documentary launches The Channel has encouraged talented directors, writers, producers and visionaries who believe that documentaries are a unique and beautiful platform, and this has allowed the Channel to resonate with Arab audiences for more than a decade.
Steeped in the belief that strong and vocal media can advance the cause of basic human rights, Al Jazeera established a permanent Human Rights desk within all of its newsrooms on November 1, The desk focused attention on violations of civil liberties everywhere, with a special focus on the Arab world.
The Human Rights desks were reorganized and expanded into a Department in The Centre launches campaigns to create awareness of international humanitarian law and prevent the erosion of rights. With a special focus on the freedom of the press, the Centre also champions the cause of ending impunity for crimes against journalists. All year round, the Center organizes workshops and seminars bringing human rights defenders together from different parts of the world.
Three years after withdrawing from the Gaza Strip, Israel launched a major military offensive there, starting on December 27, One of the first Israeli bombings was aimed at a graduation ceremony for police cadets, and Al Jazeera provided blanket coverage for the 22 days of war. By the end of the first day, more than Palestinians had been killed, and by the end of the fighting, more than 1, Palestinians and 13 Israelis had been killed.
The United Nations later reported that war crimes and crimes against humanity may have been committed in Gaza. The Gaza wars unfolded live on Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera's bureau in Gaza continues to be the eyes and ears of the world in the embattled Strip. President Ali Abdullah Saleh resigned in , assassinated in was waging war on Al Qaeda in Yemen, and a rebellion in the northern provice of Saada. While covering a protest in Abyan, Al Jazeera journalist Fadhl Mubarak was seriously injured by unknown assailants in June In March , security forces broke in to Al Jazeera's bureau in Sana'a and confiscated broadcast equipment.
In May , activists from around the world set out to travel by sea to connect to the people of the Gaza, despite the air, sea and land blockade imposed by Israel on the Palestinians in the Strip. The convoy of boats was called, "Gaza Freedom Flotilla. Wikileaks had obtained a trove of , documents dated from , indicating that torture was sanctioned at the highest levels, that hundreds of Iraqi civilians had been killed at US-managed checkpoints in Iraq, listing violations by a major US mercenary firm, Xe formerly Blackwater, currently Academi.
Some of the papers showed that the United States attempted to keep a death count throughout the war, in contradiction to the famous pronouncement of US Army Gen ret Tommy Ray Franks: "We don't do body counts" March 23, Al Jazeera partnered with WikiLeaks to provide an uncensored view of the war.
Years later, the US Army intelligence analyst who leaked the documents, born Bradley Manning, now Chelsea Manning , was pardoned from her year jail sentence. The special coverage was dedicated to exposing the inner workings of the negotiations between Palestinian and Israeli leaders. The coverage was based on more than 1, confidential documents, including memos, e-mails, maps, minutes of meetings, draft agreements, strategy papers and PowerPoint presentations from The disclosures offered a candid picture of the negotiation process, covering the Palestinian Authority's willingess to:.
Al Jazeera also exposed the nature of US pressure on Palestinian officials, and details on the extent of "security coordination" between Palestinian officials and their Israeli counterparts. Inside the studio of Al Jazeera Balkans Channel, which covers - and brings together - one of the most important parts of the world.
With impartial reporting that places people at the centre of the story, Al Jazeera Balkans has become a platform for open-minded journalism, along with serious debate. As the first regional news channel, Al Jazeera Balkans delivers programming and analysis in all local languages, providing local context to the topics that impact people at a regional and international level. Broadcasting to nearly 4 million homes in the region and reaching viewers in more than 30 countries, Al Jazeera Balkans provides our audience with a breadth of coverage previously unavailable in the region.
As part of the Al Jazeera Media Network, the Channel has access to more than 70 bureaus around the world, giving the people of the region the global coverage they want, from a local voice they trust. In December , Al Jazeera was among the first global media organisations to report on a story circulating on Arab social media.
The story was about a young man, Mohamed Bouazizi, who had set himself on fire after a police officer humiliated him as he was trying to earn his living in the southern Tunisian city of Sidi Bouzid. An interview with a tearful Ahmad Khifnawi in Tunisia went viral. That incident was a flame that sparked massive people-power revolutions in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria and Yemen, in addition to smaller movements that were contained through the implementation of reforms in Morocco and Oman.
In Egypt, the protests that began on January 25, , led to the resignation of another decades-long leader, Hosni Mubarak, on February 11, Al Jazeera dedicated all of its resouces to covering the Arab revolutions, giving voice to the hopes, dreams and aspirations of millions of people who yearned to live in freedom. Throughout the Arab world in , peaceful demands for change were facing brutal repression, and Al Jazeera's journalists were on the front lines of history in the making. Poster demanding the release of Al Jazeera's journalists detained during the coverage of the Libyan revolution.
She was held in Syria starting on April 29, and then deported to Iran, before finally returning to headquarters in Doha after the day ordeal. In July , Al Jazeera's Omar Khashram was seriously injured by shrapnel when a bomb went off near where he was reporting in Aleppo, Syria. In November , a cameraman in the Khartoum bureau - Ali Mustafa - was arrested and held for more than seven months by Sudanese forces.
That government informally accused Al Jazeera of prior knowledge of a military coup against President Omar Bashir. Being the journal of record in the region, Al Jazeera has been on the frontlines in conflict zones since its birth.
And its courageous reporters have paid the ultimate price time and again. The Qatari father of six was 55 years old. Community Organizations Al Jazeera. See map: Google Maps. Postal address:. PO Box Working languages:.
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It is a unique phenomenon which, since it started broadcasting in , has revolutionised the Arab media, and in played a major role in bringing about a real political revolution across much of the Arab world. Before al-Jazeera started broadcasting, Arab television news was totalitarian drivel.
The news chiefly focused on what the sheikh, emir or president was doing that day, some news about his heir, and a puff piece about how lucky the nation was to have such heroic father figures. Al-Jazeera blew all this away, allowing all kinds of previously banned voices to be heard, from the Israelis and Muammar Gaddafi to Chechen rebels, the Taliban and Osama bin Laden. Al-Jazeera was the first Arab channel to introduce proper investigative journalism and the first to entertain all kinds of previously off-limits guests on its talk shows, tackling controversial topics such as suicide bombing and the existence of God.
Such iconoclasm demolished social, political and religious taboos and set a new standard of reporting in the region. It introduced concepts like democracy and human rights and drastically pushed back the boundaries of free speech. It also deeply disturbed other governments in the region since none of them, with the exception of post-revolutionary Tunisia, enjoys a popular democratic mandate and they fear anything that might weaken their grip on power.
A stream of never-ending diplomatic crises kicked off between Qatar and every other country in the region except Oman, as well as many non-Arab nations.
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