This Revolution Is Powered by Television, an Unlikely Agent Is Fueling Change in the Arab World

Charleston Daily Mail › March 11, 2005

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SPECIAL TO THE BALTIMORE SUN

THE Arab revolution is being televised. Hisham Milhem, the acerbic host of one of the best Al-Arabiya talk shows, recently remarked that "the whole Arab world is watching on Arab satellite stations, which are covering live the events unfolding in Beirut, and it's having a tremendous effect on the Arab people."

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This Revolution Is Powered by Television, an Unlikely Agent Is Fueling Change in the Arab World

Arab satellite television - including the often-demonized Al- Jazeera - might be more important than was the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq in driving the recent cascade of ev...

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