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Television news remain firmly under state control in Iran.
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Iranians
Strive to Beat Media Controls
May 4, 2006
Viewers with satellite dishes can tune into
a host of channels run by expatriate Iranians, with 20 of them based
in California alone, mostly in the Los Angeles area. Although
possession of a satellite dish is technically illegal in Iran, the ban
is only sporadically enforced…
Source: BBC News
BBC
Coverage of Mideast Conflict "Misleading": Report
May 3, 2006
The BBC's coverage of the
Palestinian-Israeli conflict is "inconsistent, incomplete and
misleading", failing to adequately report the hardships of
Palestinians living under occupation, according to an independent
review…
Source: Islam Online
Malaysia
Proposes Int'l Islamic Journalism Center
May 3, 2006
Muslim heavyweight Malaysia has proposed
setting up an international Islamic journalism center to counter
mounting Islamophobia and coach non-Muslim journalists about Islam and
Muslims, reported the official Bernama news agency…
Source: Islam Online
Per
Petterson Wins Independent Foreign Fiction prize
May 3, 2006
The Norwegian author Per Petterson has won
the £10,000 prize for his fifth novel, Out Stealing Horses, which the
judges called "truly remarkable"…
Source: The Guardian
Pop-up
World
May 3, 2006
Robert Sabuda and Matthew Reinhart are two
of the foremost practitioners of one of children's fiction's most
esoteric forms: the pop-up book. They talk to Dina Rabinovitch about
learning their art, the difference between European and American kids,
and why golf doesn't work in 3D…
Source: The Guardian
Racist
Book Alarms Muslim Workers at French Airport
Apr. 29, 2006
The recently released book of a far-right
French presidential hopeful, who claimed that the Roissy-Charles de
Gaulle airport was infiltrated by "Muslim radicals" and
warned against the "Islamization of France," has scared away
Muslim workers from the airport's prayer room fearing that they might
be tracked by police as "potential terrorists."…
Source: Islam Online
Seven
World Wonders Finalists Picked
Apr. 27, 2006
Only 21 finalists remain in the final
stretch of the public's selection of the new seven most noteworthy
landmarks in the world, the Swiss-based New7Wonders Foundation has
told Discovery News…
Source: Discovery Channel
China
Strikes Back As Modern Artists Push Boundaries
Apr. 27, 2006
Chinese modern art has been pushing the
borders of the acceptable. But just as limits seemed to fall, the
local culture police struck back, albeit politely. Three galleries at
the chic Dashanzi art area were told to remove more than 20 paintings
in recent weeks, all with political themes…
Source: The Christian Science Monitor
German
Exhibition Promotes Peaceful Islam
Apr. 27, 2006
The German Interior Ministry is sponsoring
a mobile exhibition touring the country to draw the line between Islam
as a faith and the practices of some Muslims…
Source: Islam Online
Turkey
Claims Stele in British Museum
Apr. 27, 2006
The Art Newspaper can reveal that the
Turkish government has made a claim for a decorated stele in the
British Museum (BM). This happened after a Turkish diplomat in Japan
spotted the antiquity on loan to an exhibition on “Alexander the
Great: East-West Cultural Contacts from Greece to Japan”…
Source: The Art Newspaper
