Is Al-Jazeera representative of an Arab and/or Muslim voice or public sphere in the world?
5. Is Al-Jazeera a leading media force in the world? Is Al-Jazeera contributing to global news flow and to globalization? Surprisingly, all of the single-author books on Al-Jazeera found revealed a mostly positive and optimistic view on all of the topics, with the exceptions of some subtle discrepancies within each book and between books. Topic I: Is Al-Jazeera biased, most likely toward Arab and/or Muslim opinion? Adel Iskandar and Mohammed El-Nawaway believe that Al-Jazeera encompasses no bias new reporting (23), writing that it gives evenhanded reporting and uninhibited critique of authoritarian regimes have rattled the Arab world. This is a reason why many Arab leaders criticize Al-Jazeera, making the case of some US officials that it is biased against Americans. They write that Al-Jazeera operates under very little government restriction (25). The media source however, does not put down members of the Qatar ruling family, which have partly financed it. They write that Seikh Hamad,
