Arab Media Focus on Voting, Not Violence
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After months of closely covering Iraq's mayhem, Arab news outlets found that violence wasn't the story on election day - the voting was.
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Variety - NEW YORK -- George Bush and John Kerry aren't the only ones with their eyes on the White House -- local TV newscasts in cities including L.A. and Gotham are devoting little political attention to anything other than the presidential race, according to a study released Thursday.
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No bombs. No bloodshed. No bin Laden.  Belly dancing is the theme Moroccan director Nabil Ayouch says  can best communicate the Arab world to the West and reconcile  cultural differences.
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Iraqis embraced democracy in large numbers Sunday, standing in long lines to vote in defiance of mortar attacks, suicide bombers and boycott calls. Pushed in wheelchairs or carts if they couldn't walk, the elderly, the young and women in veils cast ballots in Iraq's first free election in a half-century.
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Arab governments and people waited Wednesday for the final results of the US presidential elections with mixed feelings, expressing little hope that whichever
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The large turnout seen in many parts of Iraq -- and in many parts of Mosul -- did not materialize in the southeast quadrant of the city. A month-long campaign of violence by insurgents in the Sunni Muslim neighborhoods of al-Whada and Palestine proved effective; a reporter who visited all four sites saw a total of four voters, all women.
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The victory of George W Bush in the US election dominates Thursday&#39;s Middle East press. In the Arab world and Iran, the mood ranges from scepticism to cynicism.
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European and domestic topics take a back seat in the papers today in favour of the Palestinian presidential election
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Votes this month could mark advances in the Middle East, but history shows that democracy requires time, commitment.
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Text of report by Estonian newspaper Postimees website on 5 September  [Commentary by Rein Veidemann: "Media Circus"]  Elections make for fatty raw material to the free media. The supply of news and opinions is far greater than the demand.
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Bristling with guards, the polling station looks more like a fortress than a school, but Iraqis in this Shi'ite Muslim city say the clampdown ahead of Sunday's election day is reassuring.
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Forget the mayhem in Iraq, the presidential elections, even last night&#39;s candidates&#39; debate. A banner headline yesterday in The Washington Post proclaimed the only news in
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - Arab delegations to an  international conference on Iraq said on Monday it might turn  out better to delay Iraqi elections beyond January to ensure  full participation.
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It was almost as if Jordan itself was holding elections Saturday as Iraqi voters living here cast ballots on the second day of overseas voting in their nation's elections.
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Despite the presumed political damage suffered by Prime Minister Tony Blair over Iraq, voters are largely unconcerned at events in the country.
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Sensitive to bias charges, news outlets have avoided the term 'civil war,' but now that's changing.
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nowhere more so than in the Middle East. The most-watched news stations like al-Jazeera have given over their coverage