Al Jazeera is a television news network based in Doha, Qatar, funded by the Qatari ruling family. It began as an Arabic-language channel, built around journalists who had worked for the BBC's Arabic television service before it closed, and it broke the monopoly of state-run media in the Arab world with open debate and on-the-spot reporting. It gained worldwide attention after the September 2001 attacks, when it broadcast statements by Osama bin Laden. An English-language channel followed in 2006. The network has been praised for covering stories others ignore, and criticized by governments in the Middle East and the West, some of which have banned it or its journalists, and for its relationship with Qatar.
Before and after
- from 27 September 1996 to 17 December 2001Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
- October 1996Sinosauropteryx, the first feathered dinosaur, is announced
- 14 October 1996Release of KDE
- from 24 October 1996 to 16 May 1997First Congo War
- 1 November 1996Launch of Al Jazeera
- 5 November 19961996 United States presidential election
- 7 November 1996Launch of Mars Global Surveyor
- 4 December 1996Launch of Mars Pathfinder
- 17 December 1996Creation of Cascading Style Sheets
More in Science & technology
- 1949Discovery of berkelium
- 1952Discovery of einsteinium
- December 1952Discovery of fermium
- 1958Discovery of nobelium
- c. 1980sInvention of laptop
- 9 November 1994Discovery of darmstadtium
The era
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