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“Everyone would like to say that their time in college was an interesting time in history,” says Eric R. Trager ’05, who studied Arabic and the Middle East at Harvard. “But having 9/11 occur a day before classes...
WHAT ARE LIVING CONDITIONS THERE LIKE? The best-behaved detainees are held in Camp 4, a medium-security, communal-living environment with as many as 10 beds in a room; prisoners can play soccer or volleyball outside up to nine hours a day, eat meals together and read Agatha Christie...
Al-Jazeera execs see the controversy over its coverage as a plus as much as a minus. "They have a hugely recognizable brand name, thanks to the U.S. Administration," says S. Abdallah Schleifer, director of the Adham Center for Television at the American University in Cairo. Parsons goes so far...
Al-Jazeera's coverage stirred business problems in the network's own backyard long before its executives decided to go West. For the past nine years in the Middle East, al-Jazeera has faced an unofficial boycott led by Saudi Arabia, whose government was stung by criticism on al-Jazeera...
The relaunch of a reformed Arabic channel, meanwhile, could enhance al-Jazeera's standing in the Arab world. It could also help ease resistance to its English sister channel, especially considering that despite being separate entities, the two organizations will consult on editorial plans and share space and technical crews...