Articles by Al Jazeera English

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Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place (Part 1)
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

31 Mar 2019 – During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Jewish forces captured West Jerusalem as the eastern half became part of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan. Almost two decades later, the 1967 Six-Day War would see the Jewish state claim rights to the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank, and all of Jerusalem. Since then, Israel has established over 200 illegal Israeli settlements on Palestinian land with about 600,000 settlers in the occupied West Bank and occupied East Jerusalem.

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Jerusalem: A Rock and a Hard Place (Part 2)
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 May 2019

7 Apr 2019 – A remarkable new two-part documentary special from Al Jazeera English, goes behind the scenes with residents from each of the three monolithic faiths who share one of the world’s most extraordinary cities: Jerusalem.

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Digital Prophecies: The Medium Is the Message
Marshall McLuhan – Al Jazeera English, 18 Feb 2019

In the 1960s, way before anybody had ever tweeted, Facebook Live-d or sent classified information to WikiLeaks, one man made a series of pronouncements about the changing media landscape. His name was Marshall McLuhan and you’ve probably heard his most quoted line: “The medium is the message”.

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The 5 Filters of the Mass Media Machine
Noam Chomsky – Al Jazeera English, 11 Feb 2019

According to American linguist and political activist, Noam Chomsky, media operate through 5 filters: Ownership, Advertising, the Media Elite, Flak, the Common Enemy

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Framed: The Politics of Stereotypes in News
Edward Said – Al Jazeera English, 4 Feb 2019

Palestinian-American literary historian Edward Said showed how the West had the power to represent the colonial ‘other’ – while simultaneously leaving them silent.

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Aung San Suu Kyi [Nobel Peace Laureate, Buddhist]: Turning Her Back on Muslim Rohingya in Myanmar/Burma?
Mehdi Hassan | UpFront – Al Jazeera English, 12 Jun 2017

“We know that Aung San Suu Kyi does not control the armed forces,” says [TRANSCEND Member] Maung Zarni, an exiled dissident from Myanmar. “[But] she controls four other ministries that are directly involved in dismissing, denying, and legitimising the persecution of the Rohingyas.”
But former East Timorese President Jose Ramos-Horta disagrees, claiming Suu Kyi inherited an “extraordinarily difficult situation”.

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Women Peace Activists Cross North-South Korea Border
Al Jazeera English – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Jun 2015

May 23, 2015 – Group of 30 women cross heavily militarised DMZ by bus after being denied by authorities to walk across the border.

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Journalism in the Age of Surveillance
Listening Post – Al Jazeera English, 6 Oct 2014

The ‘Snowden effect’ and challenges to the media in the age of state supervision. We spoke to journalists and technologists at the forefront of the effort to keep our communications – both the content and its related metadata – unavailable to the governments who might take advantage of them.

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