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Al Jazeera Arabic (Arabic: الجزيرة Al-Jazīrah [æl (d)ʒæˈziːrɐ], lit. ' The Peninsula ') is a Qatari state-funded Arabic-language news television network. It is based in Doha and operated by the Al Jazeera Media Network, which also operates Al Jazeera English. It is the largest news network in the Middle East and North Africa region.
The UAE blocked Al Jazeera in the emirates on 5 June 2017 (after the onset of the Qatar diplomatic crisis) because the organization was a state-endowed entity of the Qatari government and Qatar is "a major sponsor of hate speech through Al Jazeera's Arabic-language network and its other state-controlled media entities."
The original Al Jazeera Satellite Channel (then called JSC or Jazeera Satellite Channel) was launched on 1 November 1996. [16] This was following the closure of the first BBC Arabic language television station, then a joint venture with Orbit Communications Company, owned by Saudi King Fahd's cousin, Khalid bin Faisal Al Saud.
Until March 2011, aljazeera.com was an English language website for Al Jazeera Magazine, which was unrelated to the Arabic satellite TV channel Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera English; the latter operated websites in both Arabic (www.aljazeera.net) and English (english.aljazeera.net). It was also unrelated to Al Jazirah Newspaper of Saudi Arabia.
Al Jazeera was created in 1996 with the combination of the Emir of Qatar's money and talent from the defunct BBC Arabic service. It started as a response to the strict control that many governments in Arab League countries exercised over most forms of journalism as well as the lack of a free press. [2]
Control Room is a 2004 documentary film directed by Jehane Noujaim, about Al Jazeera and its relations with the US Central Command (), as well as the other news organizations that covered the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Al Jazeera has been accused of spreading anti-Hindu sentiment and taking an anti-India stance in reports relating to the country. Columnist Seema Sirohi has accused Al Jazeera of spreading anti-Hindu sentiment and taking an anti-India stance in output relating to the country. The cited source was: Sirohi, Seema (21 August 2012).
Al-jazeera arabic is already tagged as state-media. As long as BBC is not tagged as state media in the infobox - i'm also against tagging aljazeera english and AJMN as state media. BBC was notoriously biased during the initial months of latest Israel-hammas war. Al-jazeera is probably most hated network in the world because of its reporting.