Wadah Khanfar Quotes

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• These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough…
• When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few…
• At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people…
• The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the…
• Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center…
• The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us…
• The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal…
• The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state.…
• The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood…
• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of…
• At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we…
• We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is…
• News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the…
• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the…
• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
• Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations…
• Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single,…
• We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and…
• I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in…
• I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script…

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