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		<title>Al Jazeera to open office in Riyadh</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/01/06/al-jazeera-to-open-office-in-riyadh/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 11:36:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Reports indicate that Al Jazeera is to open an office in Riyadh, the Saudi capital. This is quite a change since the times when Al Jazeera was frequently railed against by the powers that be in the Kingdom for its &#8216;unfair&#8217; reporting. This resulted in the removal of the Saudi Ambassador from Qatar from 2002 [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=5011&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera to broadcast in India</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2011/01/04/al-jazeera-to-broadcast-in-india/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 14:52:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera English is to start broadcasting in India where it has just been granted a licence to operate. This potentially gives Al Jazeera the opportunity to broadcast to 115 million households in the world&#8217;s second most populous country, increasing Al Jazeera English&#8217;s global audience by nearly 50%. An excellent article on this subject notes [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4984&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera shut down in Kuwait</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/12/13/al-jazeera-shut-down-in-kuwait/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In reaction to the recent Al Jazeera coverage of Kuwait political troubles (see here) the Kuwaiti Government has closed down their offices in Kuwait City. Al Jazeera are used to this. They have their offices shut down across the region from time to time. Typically, the Kuwaiti Emir will make a plea to the Qatari [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4955&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Egypt elections, Qatar &amp; Abu Dhabi</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/29/egypt-elections-qatar-abu-dhabi/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/29/egypt-elections-qatar-abu-dhabi/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Nov 2010 13:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[An interesting snippet from the Angry Arab. Husni Mubarak visited Doha, Qatar after years of a feud between the two rulers.  (Of course, Mubarak stopped in Abu Dhabi first: the Emir of Qatar told me that Mubarak receives a blank check from the ruler of UAE in every visit&#8211;a blank check, literally).  Mubarak wants to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4851&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera shut out of Morocco</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/02/al-jazeera-shut-out-of-morocco/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/11/02/al-jazeera-shut-out-of-morocco/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 11:13:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Morocco is the latest (of many) countries to ban Al Jazeera from operating within its borders. The Ministry of Communication withdrew Al Jazeera&#8217;s accreditation for not undertaking &#8220;serious and responsible journalism&#8221; and following &#8220;numerous failures in  (following) the rules&#8221;. The Communications Minister insisted that Al Jazeera systematically refused to be objective and sought to tarnish [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4639&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Jordan behind Al Jazeera World Cup jamming</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/09/30/jordan-behind-al-jazeera-world-cup-jamming/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/09/30/jordan-behind-al-jazeera-world-cup-jamming/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Sep 2010 08:28:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[During the recent World Cup, Al Jazeera&#8217;s coverage of the opening game and seven other important matches was severely affected. The picture was intermittently lost, garbled and commentary changed languages. It has been revealed that the jamming that caused Al Jazeera to lose its signal emanated from Jordan. The Guardian suggests that this could be [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4293&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On Qatari media</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/09/29/on-qatari-media/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:09:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s hardly a revelation that the newspapers in Qatar are in a poor state. Too often filled with Ministry press releases and utter fluff, they are used as an example of the double standard when it comes to Qatari media: mostly free if you discuss other countries; wholly emasculated on domestic matters. An article delivered [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=4273&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Al Jazeera up for International Emmy</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/08/15/al-jazeera-up-for-international-emmy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Aug 2010 16:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Al Jazeera has been nominated for an International Emmy award for their coverage during the Gaza War. Such an accolade may go towards bolstering its reputation. In the West it has a reputation, among some at least, for stoking Palestinian flames and an anti-Israeli stance. Those in the Arab world charge either the same or [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3759&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Israelis to sue Al Jazeera</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/07/15/israelis-to-sue-al-jazeera/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/07/15/israelis-to-sue-al-jazeera/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 21:22:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[AP reports that a group of Israelis are suing Al Jazeera for $1.2 billion in New York for aiding Hezbollah. These 91 Israelis were wounded by Hezbollah&#8217;s rockets in the 2006 war. They suggest that Al Jazeera intentionally broke Israel&#8217;s military censorship rules and reported specific locations of rocket attacks in Israel allowing Hezbollah to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3638&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bahrain abolishes information ministry</title>
		<link>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/07/10/bahrain-abolishes-information-ministry/</link>
		<comments>http://thegulfblog.com/2010/07/10/bahrain-abolishes-information-ministry/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 10:41:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bahrain has announced that it is abolishing its information ministry. Ordinarily, this is a good sign of loosening of press censorship. Qatar, for example, used the abolition of its information ministry in 1995 to signal a shift in the country&#8217;s view of news coverage. Along with the foundation of Al Jazeera, this act was widely [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thegulfblog.com&#038;blog=2536663&#038;post=3573&#038;subd=thesinosaudiblog&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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