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Acting Director General, Al Jazeera Media Network - Mostefa Souag
Is Al Jazeera's future safe? HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Mostefa Souag, Acting Director General of Al Jazeera.
HARDtalk’s Stephen Sackur speaks to Mostefa Souag, Acting Director General of Al Jazeera. The news network was launched in Qatar in 1996 it had a seismic impact on the media landscape in the Middle East. Here was an Arab broadcaster refusing to play by local rules: ambitious, punchy and provocative in its coverage of the region and the world. Two decades on, it seems that patience is wearing thin in much of the Arab world. Saudi Arabia and its closest allies recently demanded Qatar close the network down. Does Al Jazeera have a future?
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