Al Jazeera, the Arab media "island"

The last decade has witnessed a change in the media landscape of almost all countries of the Arab world.
The Arab world television channel knew three phases of development: the formative phase (1954-1975), the national expension (1976-1990) with the propaganda of nation, and the regional and global expension, as it is the case of Al Jazeera.

In fact, Al Jazeera has been created in 1996 in Doha, Qatar. It is diffused in more than 35 countries, counting countries of the Middle East and Europe. Al Jazeera is seen as the "voice of Islamism", in order to give to the world, especially Europe and the United States, an other perspective of Muslims and Arabs views. However, in Arab countries, Al Jazeera is seen as pro-American.

Al Jazeera developped its global connectivity by opening four web sites, and many Google pages. Since the war in Iraq, Al Jazeera knew more and more visitors in their web sites, and people started asking more questions to the channel. It became an international channel, an international and global media player.