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The Opposite Direction (Arabic: الاتجاه المعاكس , Al-Etjah Al-mo'akis) is a political debate TV show by Al Jazeera hosted by TV presenter Faisal al-Qassem. It streams weekly and addresses current events in the Middle East and the Arab world.
| The Opposite Direction | |
|---|---|
| Arabic | الاتجاه المعاكس |
| Presented by | Faisal al-Qassem |
| Country of origin | Qatar |
| Original language | Arabic |
| Production | |
| Production location | Qatar |
| Original release | |
| Network | Al Jazeera TV |
| Release | 17 December 1996[1] |
The first episode was released in 1996, and today the show is still active.[citation needed] The TV show is hosted by Al Jazeera's TV presenter Faisal al-Qassem. Two guests representing opinions of each side of a given topic being debated are invited to participate in the show.
The show has been called Al Jazeera's "most polemical" program.[2]
In 2001, Al-Qassem was quoted as saying the following about the show's intensions:
"Dialogue is something missing among the Arabs. It is missing in schools, as much as it is missing everywhere else in life of the Arabs. . . . Through programmes such as mine, we hope to implement new rules, those that educate the Arab human being to listen, not only to his own opinion, but to that of the other side as well. The debate-based media must enter in force and strongly in the political life of the Arabs, whether the Arab regimes like it or not."[3][2]
List of episodes edit
1996 edit
- The 17th Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Arabic: القمة السابعة عشر لمجلس التعاون الخليجي).
1997 edit
1998 edit
1999 edit
- 09/11/1999 - The secret relationship between Mauritania and Israel (Arabic: العلاقة السرية بين موريتانيا وإسرائيل).[4]
2000 edit
2022 edit
See also edit
References edit
- ×Official Website (ar)
- ^ 1st episode
- ^ a b Abdul-Jabbar, Wisam Kh. (1 March 2018). "Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere". Contemporary Arab Affairs. 11 (1–2): 43–62. doi:10.1525/caa.2018.000004. ISSN 1755-0912.
- ^ Bahry, L. Y. 2001. “The New Arab Media Phenomenon: Qatar’s Al-Jazeera.” Middle East Policy 8 (2): 88–99.
- ^ "العلاقة السرية بين موريتانيا وإسرائيل". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 July 2022.
- ^ "الأنظمة العربية وثورات الشعوب.. من انتصر؟". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 July 2022.
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