Al Jazeera network has launched a new digital platform Rightly, which aims to target US conservative audiences.We speak with Adel Iskander, professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University about Aljazeera move into the right wing media ecosystem in the US. We also celebrate National Poetry Month by bringing you some of the poetry of … Continued


Voices of the Middle East and North Africa

Assault On Higher Education In Turkey & The Global Campaign To Free Iranian Human Rights Lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh

On January 1, 2021, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan announced his appointment of a new rector at Isatnbul’s Boğaziçi University, one of Turkey’s most prestigious universities. The appointment trampled  a long-standing tradition of electing rectors from within the university. In the second part of their interview  Ayça Alemdaroğlu and  Elif Babül discuss the context for the … Continued