
Sign up to save your podcasts
Or


The satellite TV station Al Jazeera, is credited with giving ordinary Arabs a platform from which to challenge their governments.
And day by day it's been covering the dramatic events of the Arab Spring using the latest slick technology on both its Arabic and English channels.
But is it selective in who it criticises?
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Wadah Khanfar.
He was the boss of Al Jazeera for nearly ten years.
Was the station's coverage biased on his watch?
And why did he leave Al Jazeera in the midst of the biggest news events in the Arab World for decades?
(Image: Wadah Khanfar. Credit: Getty Images)
By BBC World Service4.4
327327 ratings
The satellite TV station Al Jazeera, is credited with giving ordinary Arabs a platform from which to challenge their governments.
And day by day it's been covering the dramatic events of the Arab Spring using the latest slick technology on both its Arabic and English channels.
But is it selective in who it criticises?
Zeinab Badawi speaks to Wadah Khanfar.
He was the boss of Al Jazeera for nearly ten years.
Was the station's coverage biased on his watch?
And why did he leave Al Jazeera in the midst of the biggest news events in the Arab World for decades?
(Image: Wadah Khanfar. Credit: Getty Images)

7,598 Listeners

4,158 Listeners

376 Listeners

526 Listeners

1,050 Listeners

294 Listeners

5,453 Listeners

1,797 Listeners

1,746 Listeners

1,040 Listeners

2,090 Listeners

973 Listeners

197 Listeners

743 Listeners

49 Listeners

3,189 Listeners

715 Listeners

138 Listeners

1,022 Listeners

336 Listeners

25 Listeners

147 Listeners