Friday, February 10, 2006
NPR's On the Media. "Arab Media Politics: After days of violent protests over provocative political cartoons, the old familiar phrase - CLASH OF CIVILIZATIONS - kept roaring back. With two satellites dishes, seven or eight Arabic-language newspapers and a number of Internet magazines, Cal State political science professor As'ad AbuKhalil is awash in media from the Middle East. AbuKhalil, who blogs under the name Angry Arab, knows more acutely than most what our respective media are saying. He joins Bob for some analysis."