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Palestinian journalists have called for a ban on Israeli media personnel from entering the occupied West Bank. The move is seen as retaliation for the restrictions that they face...

The Council of Settlements in the West Bank have demanded the opening of a police investigation into the Haaretz newspapers and its journalist, Amira Hass, following the publication of...

The Iraqi authorities have suspended the broadcast licences of Al-Jazeera and nine other TV channels. Al-Jazeera has been told to stop all its operations and activities in the country....

Al-Jazeera Arabic has once again shown it is firmly leading the way in its viewership – as the most watched pan-Arab news channel. According to audience data produced in...

According to the Jerusalem Newspaper on May 23, 2013, the website for Israel's Seventh Channel television station said that on Wednesday afternoon, the Knesset has approved the first reading...

Dozens of Jordanian journalists have taken part in a demonstration in protest at a government decision to ban hundreds of websites. The protesters said that the decision "assassinates media...

Israeli media has reported that Israeli Likud Knesset member Tzachi Hanegbi said on Friday that the military coup carried out by the Egyptian army in Egypt was good news...

Five Palestinian journalists were wounded when Israeli occupation forces attacked them at Qalandya military checkpoint as they tried to enter Jerusalem. Ironically, the journalists were launching a campaign for...

Security sources said that Egyptian security forces killed a senior editor in state Al-Ahram newspaper Tamer abdul-Ra'ouf at a military checkpoint near the city of Damanhour on Monday night....

Israeli intelligence services have tried to derail a television documentary planned to be broadcast on the Israel's Channel 10 next Sunday, Israeli journalist Amnon Levy said on Tuesday. Levy...

Jordanian journalists are accusing their country's government of interfering in the editorial policy of their newspaper. The journalists working at Al-Rai Newspaper, the biggest daily in Jordan, announced on...

VIDEO A Syrian satellite TV channel believed to be supportive of the Assad regime has aired graphic images which, it is alleged, break media ethics guidelines. A report claiming...

This morning the Egyptian authorities closed Al Quds and Yarmuk TV stations on Nile Sat as they begun direct coverage of today's rally in Rabi'ah Adawiya Square in Cairo....

The Egyptian Public Prosecution has decided to release Al-Jazeera head office in Cairo journalist Abdul-Fattah Fayed after two days of detention and investigation. Fayed was detained after officers of...

Al-Jazeera network has accused the Egyptian authorities of enforcing strict measures on their employees in Egypt and denied siding with Islamists in its coverage of the Egyptian crisis. Egyptian...

Police in Cairo have closed the Al-Jazeera bureau in the city and arrested two employees. Tweets from colleagues confirmed that they have been banned from covering events in Egypt...

Egyptian journalist, Wael Qandil, has said that Liberals do not understand the real meaning of liberalism. He said that it was not reasonable that they should support the killing...

The Cairo-based Rassd News Network has condemned the latest intimidation by the coup government which has seen the killing and arbitrary arrests of journalists, including of five of its...

Media censorship in Egypt has accelerated since the coup against President Mohamed Morsi. As well as fighting the free media, suppressing freedom and violating citizens' right to information, the...

On Thursday, Egyptian security forces simultaneously stormed the offices of several foreign media in Cairo, including Al-Jazeera and the Palestinian Al-Aqsa TV. Witnesses said that security forces confiscated cameras...

On Sunday, Egyptian security forces arrested the head of Al-Jazeera English's bureau in Cairo and expelled four journalists, while detaining two more. The Al-Jazeera network issued a statement stating...

The source of jamming of Al-Jazeera's Egyptian TV service is outside Cairo, according to a company that investigates interference with satellite signals. Bruno Dupas, president of Integral Systems, said...

A group of anti-coup Egyptians living in exile have published advertisements in European newspapers as the start of a campaign against the military coup and dictatorship in their homeland....

Egypt's Sports Minister, Taher Abu-Zaid, has ordered the council of the Egyptian Football Union not to sell the broadcasting rights for the country's Premier League to Al-Jazeera Sport Channel....

Bassem Yousef's controversial satirical show "El-Bernameg" (the Program) has been permanently suspended after disputes between the show's production company and the Egyptian CBC channel escalated when the channel decided...

The coup government in Egypt has been accused by the International Press Institute of violating journalists' rights. Executive Director Alison McKenzie has asked the military-backed government in Cairo to...

The Christian Science Monitor (CSM) has commented on the oppression campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) in Egypt. CSM, which is close to US decision makers, ruled out the...

The director of London-based satellite channel Al-Hiwar TV has said that the station has been told to stop covering the anti-coup protests in return for which its signal will...

According to German newspaper, Der Spiegel, the CIA has been spying on Al-Jazeera network and successfully infiltrated its internal network of communication. Der Spiegel reported that a document released...

Following the Egyptian authorities' arrest on Sunday of four Cairo-based Al-Jazeera English journalists, the Arab Organisation for Human Rights in UK (AOHR UK), a non-governmental organisation that promotes human...

Foreign media correspondents have received warnings from the Egyptian authority and asked to be cautious when covering incidents in the country, The Times newspaper said. The Times said that...

Since its beginning, "Peaceful" was the slogan of the Egyptian revolution and every time someone tried to complicate the issue it was the revolutionaries themselves who stepped in to...