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This book traces the emergence, and impact, of this influential Arab satellite channel. It draws on a wealth of interviews with relevant journalists, policy-makers, and political activists. It provides an excellent guide to how Al Jazeera challenged Arab as well as some Western powers and fuelled political change in the Arab world. In late 2010, Tunisians began protesting against the government of then president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali; on 14 January 2011, their protests forced the dictatorial leader to resign. Further democratic uprisings, which came to be known as the Arab Spring, soon spread across the region, leading to the end of decades of dictatorial rule with the ousting of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi. The reverberations of the Tunisian revolution are still being felt across the region today. Throughout it all, experts have argued, Arab satellite TV - and especially Al Jazeera - helped to sustain revolutions by broadcasting these events live throughout the Arab World. Al Jazeera and the Arab Revolution tells the story of how the network came to have such influence and argues that the emergence of the Al-Jazeera satellite channel in 1996 marked a new era that revolutionised Arab broadcasting and people's perceptions about news coverage in the Arab world and, above all, Arab consciousness.

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Noureddine Miladi is Senior Lecturer in Media and Sociology at the University of Northampton. His research interests are Arab broadcasting, satellite TV and the construction of public opinion, media and war coverage and new media and social/political change. He is the editor of the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, published by Intellect.

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