The Real Commander of Hearts and Minds

The Brian Lehrer Show | Mar 31, 2010

Mohammed El-Nawawy, professor of journalism at the University of West Florida and co-author (with Adel Iskandar)of Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East (Westview, 2002) and Adel Iskandar, co-author of the book and an instructor in communications at the University of Kentucky, on the popularity of the Al-Jazeera network in the Arab and Western world.

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