Top 10 Global Websites and Most Political Impact Lifetime Achieve- ment Award in Pub- lishing Best Arabic Website in Media and Com- munications Best Strategic News Website Best Arabic News Website Number One Web- site in Using Global Technology Excellence Award for Launching an Arabic Language Teaching Initiative First Arabic Site and Fifth Global Site Sixth in Global Me- dia Agency Sources
2004
Politics Online Survey USA
Middle East Publishing Convention Al-Shaikh Salim Al Ali al-Sabah Prize for Informatics
2006
UAE
2008
Kuwait
Arab Academy for Internet Awards
2009
UAE
Internet Awards Acad- emy
2010
Oman
Arab Academy for Internet Awards
2011
Lebanon
Fourth Gulf Conven- tion for Education
2014
UK
Al-Shaikh Salim Al Ali al-Sabah Prize for Informatics
2016
Kuwait
2017
FORE Classification
USA
Source: AlJazeera.net
b) The English Website Outpacing the English Channel The idea to launch the English face of AlJazeera.net came to be while preparations were still underway to launch Al Jazeera English. The start of the war in Iraq on 20 March 2003 was among the factors that accelerated its launch, preceding the channel’s satellite broadcast by three years because it did not need a complex network of techni- cal, engineering and technological framework that a television channel needed. After Al Jazeera English’s launch in 2006, the English website
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