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Throughout its four-year existence, Al Hurra, the U.S.-backed satellite channel available throughout the Middle East, has been embroiled in controversy. Launched soon after the invasion of Iraq, Al Hurra was tasked with the goal of accurately representing U.S. policies and opinions in the region in an effort to combat the rise of anti-American sentiment. Further, Al Hurra was supposed to provide high-quality journalism that would both result in a more informed and democratically engaged Arab citizenry and improve the quality ofjournalism throughout the region.
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Naomi Sakr, Arab Television Today (London: LB. Tauris, 2007), 63.
Mohammed el-Nawawy, “US Public Diplomacy and the News Credibility of Kadio Sawa and Television Al Hurra in the Arab World,” in New Media in the New Middle East, ed. Philip Serb (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007), 119–138.
Kai Hafez, The Myth of Media Globalization (Cambridge, MA: Polity, 2007).
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Powers, S., Gody, A.E. (2009). The Lessons of Al Hurra Television. In: Seib, P. (eds) Toward a New Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan Series in Global Public Diplomacy. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230100855_3
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