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Articles of the author Lawrence Pintak William Rugh
The Murrow option
CAIRO: Almost 50 years ago, President John F. Kennedy turned to America's most respected journalist to tell the nation's story to the world. Edward R. Murrow was the father of television journalism. His valiant reporting from wartime London (...)

17 - 02 - 2009
The princess and the Facebook Girl
Once upon a time, in a kingdom far, far away, there lived a beautiful princess named Rym. But this princess was sad, for the voices of her people were but a whisper. It was her fervent desire to hear singing in the land, to hear the town criers (...)

14 - 05 - 2008
Ignoring Al-Jazeera
It appears that Israel is taking a page from the George W. Bush book of public diplomacy: attempting to influence coverage by Arab media by boycotting the most influential television station in the Arab world. In the latest news from Jerusalem, (...)

06 - 04 - 2008
Feeding Chaos: A New Middle East Cold War
Bush administration efforts to forge a US-Arab alliance against Iran are threatening to produce a new Middle East Cold War, with dangerous implications for regional stability, US interests and American lives. When Condoleezza Rice was in the (...)

13 - 02 - 2007
War of Ideas: Insurgent channel spreads its wings
A controversial TV channel that is the voice of Iraq's anti-American insurgents looks set to launch another front in the propaganda war against the U.S. The head of al-Zawraa, which airs footage produced by the Islamic Army of Iraq, says he has (...)

24 - 01 - 2007
The Middle East: It's all just too darned complicated
Memo: To Arabs and MuslimsRe: The Middle East It's your own fault. That's right, the Bush administration can't be held responsible for the mess they have made of the Middle East. You Arabs and Muslims are to blame. How can anyone be expected (...)

02 - 10 - 2006
Reporting Lebanon: Look who's fair and balanced
The summer of 2006 marked an important milestone for Arab media. Israel and Hezbollah were locked in a bitter conflict that would claim the lives of more than 150 Israelis and an estimated 1,000 Lebanese, a third of them children. Each day brought (...)

24 - 08 - 2006
Future history: A glimpse of what U.S. Lebanon policy could spawn
It is very likely that the world will look back at the summer of 2006 as a seminal moment in Middle East history. We may well be seeing, as Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put it, "the birth pangs of a new Middle East. But it is also quite (...)

17 - 08 - 2006
Weapons of War: Open Season on Journalists in the Middle East
After the carnage of this past weekend, they would seem to fade almost into insignificance - and that's understandable, but they bear noting. The Israeli destruction of TV transmission towers in Lebanon and an attack on a media convoy in south (...)

03 - 08 - 2006
Lebanon: Black & white and dead all over
Once more, U.S. Marines are on Lebanese soil. Once more, Israeli jets are pounding Beirut and its tanks are in south Lebanon. Once more, the powers-that-be in Washington are seeing black hats and white hats in a region where everyone wears (...)

25 - 07 - 2006
U.S. Middle East policy: Between Iraq and the hard guys
This week's visit to the region by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brings with it another reminder that U.S. Middle East policy is firmly wedged between Iraq and the hard guys. There were never any easy answers to the Middle East morass. (...)

23 - 02 - 2006
Why all the fuss now?
In a confused world of overlapping cultures, authoritarian and extremist forces often exploit the politics of difference, writes Lawrence Pintak* We just don't get it, do we? And by "we," I mean all of us -- Americans, Arabs, Europeans, Pakistanis, (...)

16 - 02 - 2006
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