Mohamed Nanabhay's Blog

Marc Lynch points to a new opinion poll by Shibley Telhami (Brookings Institute, University of Maryland) which was just released. It covers public attitudes in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates. (download : ppt -you may need to remove the .pot extension)

While each section is interesting and worth looking at, I flipped straight to the end to the findings on media viewership

While there are no accurate ratings for TV viewership in the Middle East, conventional thinking is that everyone watches Al Jazeera so the findings come as no surprise.

I would be interested in seeing the results of the same questions one year after BBC Arabic has been on the air. Al-Arabiya must be very worried...