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Al Jazeera was the leading media spreading the news about unrest in a small city in Tunisia throughout the Middle East in 2011. [56] People in the Middle East have heavily relied on Al Jazeera to obtain news about their regions and the world even more than YouTube and Google. [56]
Pakistan would support all efforts to prevent war escalating in the Middle East, its foreign ministry said on Friday, as fears grow of a wider conflict involving Israel and Iran. The Middle East ...
The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt , Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [ 1 ] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south.
The Middle East (term originally coined in English [see ยง Terminology] [note 1]) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq. The term came into widespread usage as a replacement of the term Near East (as opposed to the Far East) beginning in the early 20th century.
February 13, 2012. Current status. Active. Al-Monitor is a news website launched in 2012 by the Arab-American entrepreneur Jamal Daniel. [1] Based in Washington, D.C., [2] Al-Monitor provides reporting and analysis from and about the Middle East. Al-Monitor is the recipient of the International Press Institute 's 2014 Free Media Pioneer Award.
The Middle East and North Africa ( MENA ), also referred to as West Asia and North Africa ( WANA) [1] or South West Asia and North Africa ( SWANA ), [2] [3] is a geographic region which comprises the Middle East (also called West Asia) and North Africa together. However, it is widely considered to be a more defined and apolitical alternative to ...
The BBC launched BBC Arabic Television on 11 March 2008, an Arabic-language news channel in North Africa and the Middle East. [225] This is the second time that the BBC has launched an Arabic language TV channel; as mentioned above , the demise of the original BBC World Service Arabic TV channel had at least contributed to the founding of the ...
Richard Engel (born September 16, 1973) is an American journalist and author who is the chief foreign correspondent for NBC News. [1] He was assigned to that position on April 18, 2008, after serving as the network's Middle East correspondent and Beirut bureau chief. [2] Before joining NBC in May 2003, Engel reported on the start of the 2003 ...