Quotes by Wadah Khanfar - Page 1

Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab World
Expression
Freedom Of Expression
Voice
World
Al
Al Jazeera
Arab
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If Al Jazeera America becomes just another mainstream TV station, it is definitely not going to succeed.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Mainstream
Succeed
Al
Al Jazeera
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It is the growing periphery of the Arab world - the masses at its margins, not its feeble and decaying center - that is shaping the future of the region.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Growing
Spring
World
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I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Magnificent
Filming
Images
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Al Jazeera is not a tool of revolution. We do not create revolutions. However, when something of that magnitude happens, we are at the center of the coverage.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Als
Coverage
Magnitude
Revolution
Tools
Revolutions
Al
Al Jazeera
Center
However
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News is the backbone of our network; the main commodity and the main successes of Al Jazeera came out of our involvement in covering the news in the Middle East.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Commodity
Covering
East
Involvement
Middle East
Al
Al Jazeera
Network
Successes
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The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Conscience
Information
Valuable
Belong
Collective
Provide
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Because I was once a reporter, I've always felt a sense of estrangement inside the newsroom. The field is alive and interactive, while the newsroom is quiet and stereotypical.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Interactive
Quiet
Reporter
Newsroom
Stereotypical
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I do believe, given the heritage of Al Jazeera itself in Arabic and in English, I think Al Jazeera will succeed in introducing another perspective on the news that the American market is in need for.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Heritage
Introducing
Perspective
Succeed
Al
Al Jazeera
Arabic
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For me, Islam is a moral reference point, a source of inspiration to work collectively with people, to love people and to help them, to concentrate on universal values of mercy, co-operation and tolerance.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Inspiration
Islam
Mercy
People
Tolerance
Love Work Me
Co-Operation
Collectively
Reference
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At times, some journalists see nothing in the people apart from an opportunity to make material gain. They see them as consumers to whom we sell commodities at huge profits that keep our bank accounts growing.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Accounts
Apart
Bank
Commodities
Gain
Journalists
Profits
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The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction. Let us accept the choice of the people. Let us not pick and choose who we would like to rule their future.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Destruction
Regimes
Stability
Terrorism
Authoritarian
Let Us
Pick And Choose
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Insight
Society Better People
Al
Al Jazeera
Overseas
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The Arab spring was not as radical as the French or Iranian revolutions. It did not pull out the deeply entrenched roots of the state. Instead, it was satisfied to replace the top of the pyramid with newly elected, but inexperienced, leaders.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab Spring
Iranian
Radical
Roots
Satisfied
Spring
Revolutions
Arab
French
Deeply
Elected
Entrenched
Inexperienced
Newly
Pull
Pyramid
Replace
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The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab Spring
Driven
Innovative
Outside World
Spread
Youth
Activists
Arab
Derived
Liberal
Network
Social Networks
Visions
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab World
Broadcasters
Views
Al
Al Jazeera
Appear
Arab
Israelis
Perceived
Screen
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When an international news organization covers a story in Somalia, Yemen, Sudan or wherever, they will fly a crew to go there, spend a few days, interact with some officials and analysts, most of the time English-speaking elite, and file the story and go home.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Crew
English Speaking
International
News
Officials
Organization
Somalia
Sudan
Yemen
Analyst
Covers
Elite
File
Fly
Go Home
Interact
Wherever
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The Arab spring confirmed that peaceful change is possible and so reinforced the vision of political Islam. The impact of this went beyond the Brotherhood to include the Salafist tendency in Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen and Libya that had questioned the democratic path.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab Spring
Brotherhood
Democratic
Egypt
Islam
Libya
Peaceful
Spring
Tunisia
Yemen
Arab
Confirmed
Include
Questioned
Reinforced
Tendency
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Choices
Conscience
Departure
Depth
Journalism
Believes
Capabilities
Collective
Masses
Principle
Regards
Respects
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.
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Imagination
Balance
Trying
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I think 2001 was the year Al Jazeera started to play an international role, in a way. Because in 2001, we were the only TV station located inside Kabul, and every image out of the war in Afghanistan, the beginning of the war in Afghanistan, came through Al Jazeera screen.
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Afghanistan
Al
Al Jazeera
Located
Screen
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We have Al Jazeera Arabic news, Al Jazeera English news, of course; we have three sports channels, and we have Al Jazeera Mubasher, which is a live channel that broadcasts live press conferences and symposiums and meetings. And, of course, we have Al Jazeera commentary in Arabic.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Commentary
Conferences
Al
Al Jazeera
Arabic
Channel
Channels
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Al Jazeera is the opinion of other opinion, independent. Al Jazeera is diverse, reflection of the collective mind of the nations and cultures and civilizations that we report from and we report to, bridge of dialogue. This is what Al Jazeera is all about. Al Jazeera is a mission.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Dialogue
Diverse
Nations
Reflection
Al
Al Jazeera
Report
Bridge
Civilizations
Collective
Cultures
Mission
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Al Jazeera is a representation of, you know, diversity in the Arab world. In our newsroom, we have every single nationality, we have every single, you know, ideology, we have every single background. However, when it comes to the screen, we have one code of ethics and one code of conduct.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab World
Code
Ethics
Ideology
Nationality
Representation
Al
Al Jazeera
Arab
Background
Conduct
However
Newsroom
Screen
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We are not a TV station that only concentrate on those who are always under light. We are not a TV station for celebrities and for grand politicians and superstars. We are a TV station for the ordinary person. The normal people, ordinary people in the Arab world sees Al Jazeera as their voice.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Arab World
Light
Normal
Ordinary
Ordinary People
Voice
Always World Light
Tv
Al
Al Jazeera
Arab
Celebrities
Light World People
Politicians
Grand
Normal People
Sees
Superstars
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There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Conviction
Deep Conviction
Editorial
Employees
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Courage
Authority
Conferences
Giving
Journalism
Policy
Stars
Voiceless
Al
Al Jazeera
Center
Editorial
Favored
Human Being
Press
Some People
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The international media concentrates on the famous, the big names. Al Jazeera goes to the margins, investigates stories that are still developing and in the future become very big. Why did the Arabic world love Al Jazeera? Everybody felt he was represented in the newsroom and on the screen. That kind of belonging is ours.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Belonging
Developing
Margins
Al
Al Jazeera
Arabic
Newsroom
Ours
Screen
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Al Jazeera should understand the societies, should understand the culture of the civilisation, should understand the dynamics of the societies, should be part of this understanding; and on the other level, Al Jazeera should concentrate on the margin rather than the centre. It means that Al Jazeera should be close to the public.
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Centre
Civilisation
Dynamics
Al
Al Jazeera
Margin
Societies
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I started as an engineer. I migrated to philosophy and international politics. And I did my studies about African - Africa democracy and democratization in Africa, taking Kenya as a model. And then, while I was doing so in 1996 in South Africa, Al Jazeera was established. So they requested me to be an analyst on African affairs.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Democracy
Democratization
International
South Africa
Affairs
Africa
African
Al
Al Jazeera
Analyst
Established
Model
Studies
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Admiration
Islamic
Organised
Regimes
Revolution
Arab
Aroused
Considerable
Presented
Tyrannical
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I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.
Wadah Khanfar / Business Person
Congo
Democratic
Democratic Republic
Republic
Zimbabwe
Affairs
African
Al
Al Jazeera
Slowly
Mainly
Negotiations
Rebels
Saudi
Speaking
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