Inside an Arab Media Giant
by
Mohamed Zayani, Sofiane Sahraoui
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2017
In the mid 1990s, the emir of Qatar conceived the idea of a satellite channel that would further the progressive image he hoped to establish for his small Arabian/Persian Gulf state. At the same time, a short-lived partnership between the BBC and a Saudi company had left a handful of BBC-trained Arab...