"When an international news organization covers a story……" — Wadah Khanfar
"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 days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home."
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Wadah Khanfar
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26 Quotes by Wadah Khanfar
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at…
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand…
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are…
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens,…
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice…
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world.…
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply…
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The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of…
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its…
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them…
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We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have…
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of…
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