and Badr Al Saud’s thesis on their reporting on conflicts in the Middle East and their ethical commitment (1) . On covering Arab causes and shaping public opinion, Hala al-Baghdadi compared Al Jazeera and Nile news channels (2) , and Yasser Al Hussein (‘s) compared between Al Jazeera and Al-Manar (3) . As for Mohamed al-Fakih, he researched the interrelationship between levels of knowledge of political issues and TV coverage. In his research, he examined news topics through the reporting of Al Jazeera, Abu Dhabi TV, MBC, and Yemen TV (4) . In his thesis, Mohamed Faizal Kasmani compared the coverage of the 2009 Iranian elections by Al Jazeera En- glish and BBC World News (5) . Regarding the struggle to enter the North American media market and overcome legal barriers, Ian Kivelin Davis wrote about the cases of Al Jazeera and China’s CCTV (6) . Among the issues that have received a large share of the compar- ative studies are the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq and the Palestinian is- sue. The following studies are just a few examples of this trend: Amel (1) Bader Al Saud, The Reporting of Wars in the Middle East: Negotiating the Journalistic Ethos of Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya , (PhD thesis, Goldsmiths, University of London, 2012). (2) Hala al-Baghdadi, Variables Affecting Coverage of Arab Issues on Arab News Channels: A Comparative Study between Al Jazeera and Nile News Channels , (PhD thesis, Cairo University, 2007). (3) Yasser Mahjoub Al Hussein, The Role of Arab Satellite Channels in Shaping Regional Public Opinion: A Comparative Study of Application on Al Jazeera and Al-Manar , (PhD The- sis, Omdurman Islamic University, 2008). (4) Mohammed al-Faqih, The Relationship between Reliance on Satellite Television Channels and Levels of Knowledge of News Topics in Yemeni Society through Al Jazeera, Abu Dhabi, MBC and Yemeni Satellite Channels , (PhD Thesis, Cairo University, 2002). (5) Mohamed Faizal Kasmani, BBC World News and Al Jazeera English Coverage: A Study of the Iran 2009 Presidential Election , (PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2012). (6) Ian Kivelin Davis, International News Contraflow in the United States and Canada: Strug- gles over North American Media Markets and Regulation of Al Jazeera and CCTV , (PhD thesis, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2015).
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