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11 unusual facts about Al Jazeera


August 2009 Egyptian hostage escape

Al Jazeera reports that seven pirates washed up on Somali beaches.

Christian Picciolini

His writings and editorial pieces have appeared in magazines like Alternative Press and news outlets like Huffington Post and Al Jazeera.

Dennis L. Montgomery

Dennis Lee Montgomery (born 1953) is an American software designer and former medical technician credited with "bamboozling" federal officials into purchasing computer programs he claimed would decode secret Al Qaeda messages hidden in Al Jazeera broadcasts and identify terrorists based on predator drone videos.

English in the Netherlands

In addition to the availability of the British channels BBC One, Two and World and American CNN and the English edition of Al Jazeera, many series broadcast on Dutch channels are broadcast in English (i.e. anglophone TV-series, documentaries) with Dutch subtitles.

Ghassan Shabaneh

He has appeared on many Arab TV stations especially on Al-Arabiya and on Al Jazeera.

International Reporting Program

These student projects are featured on major news outlets including The New York Times, PBS, Al Jazeera, CBS, Global and The Globe and Mail.

Meees

In April 2006 the rights to air the show were purchased by Al Jazeera, the Arabic news network, after Sheikha Mozah, the wife of the Emir of Qatar and channel founder supposedly "fell in love with" them.

Mosireen

Their films are played as part of the Kazeboon street screening campaign, on independent satellite channels such as Al Jazeera and have been featured at several European festivals.

Oxygen Design Agency

He also acquired the internet rights to over 45 International television channels which included Al Jazeera, Rotana, MBC and RTP.

Sidi Ifni

On June 7, the Qatar-owned TV chain Al Jazeera stated that between eight and 10 people had been killed during the police intervention.

Syria chemical weapons program

On 23 December 2012, Al Jazeera released unconfirmed reports that a gas attack killed 7 civilians in the rebel-held al-Bayyada neighbourhood of Homs.


Akber Choudhry

# On 27 July 2011, Al Jazeera decided to host this controversial debate on their social media programme The Stream.

Al Arabiya

Al Arabiya was started in response to Qatar's pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera, but has languished behind in audience popularity surveys, according to reports by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami.

Callum Macrae

Outsider Television went on to produce several documentaries for various television channels, including Dispatches, Enemies Within and Sri Lanka's Killing Fields for Channel 4, Witness and People in Power for Al Jazeera and Panorama for the BBC.

Chris Roebuck

Roebuck appears regularly on both TV and radio globally as a leadership expert, including BBC News, BBC World Business, BBC Breakfast, The Money Programme, Bloomberg, CNBC,CNN, Sky, Al Jazeera, Swiss and Russian National Television, BBC UK, World Service and Australian Radio channels.

Deepak Tripathi

Tripathi writes on the effects of superpower rivalries in South Asia and the Middle East, and on U.S. policy in the region, for publications including Al Jazeera, Al-Ahram, History News Network, CounterPunch, AlterNet, and ZNet.

Faisal al-Qassem

Faisal Al-Qassem, also written as Faisal Al-Kasim (Arabic:فيصل القاسم ) is an internationally-renowned British-Syrian veteran and television personality based in Qatar, who is known for hosting the famous and controversial live debate show The Opposite Direction (Arabic:الاتجاه المعاكس ) on Al Jazeera, where two guests with extremely opposed view points debate on current affairs.

Fernando Carrera

His analysis and comments have also been broadcast on international TV networks, such as CNN, Al Jazeera and the Spanish Television (TVE).

Israel vs Israel

The film won the Best International Documentary award at the 2011 Turkish Radio and Television Corporation documentary film festival as well an award from the Doha Center for Media Freedom at the 2011 Al Jazeera Film Festival, and has been screened at festivals in Stockholm, Montreal, Tromsø, and Trondheim.

John Bogdan

On 5 August 2013, Jason Leopold, writing in Al Jazeera, reported that Bogdan's justification for intrusive genital searches was based on the idea that there was a risk that al Qaeda would launch a frontal attack on the prison.

Khadija Benguenna

She received the award from Mary Robinson, former President of Ireland at Burj al-Arab Hotel in Dubai, and this is a prize that reflects the important role played by women in the Al Jazeera media channel in all areas of editorial work, technical and field.

Nabila Ramdani

In the UK, Ramdani participates in flagship current affairs programmes, including the BBC's Woman's Hour, Today, You and Yours, PM, Newsnight, Dateline London, BBC Arabic's Sabaat Ayyam (Seven Days), The Sky News Press Preview, Boulton & Co, and Al Jazeera's Inside Story.

P. W. Singer

Singer has provided commentary on military affairs for many of the major TV and radio outlet, including ABC News Nightline, Al Jazeera, BBC, CBS-60 Minutes, CNN, Fox, NPR, The Daily Show, and the NBC Today Show.

Rusiya Al-Yaum

Previously, when ANO TV-Novosti announced to launch Arabic language channel the editor-in-chief's position was taken by Akram Khuzam (Al Jazeera Channel's former Moscow Bureau chief).

Sectarianism and minorities in the Syrian Civil War

Journalist Nir Rosen, writing for Al Jazeera, reported that members of the Alawite sect are afraid of Sunni hegemony, as they were oppressed by Sunnis during Ottoman times and in the early years of the 20th century, the Sunni merchant class held much of the country's wealth and dominated politics.

Videos and audio recordings of Osama bin Laden

According to a recording aired by Al Jazeera on June 3, Bin Laden made a statement against President Barack Obama.