The Opposite Direction

The Opposite Direction (Arabic: الاتجاه المعاكس , Al-Etjah Al-mo'akis) is a political debate TV show by Al Jazeera hosted by TV presenter Faisal al-Qassem. It streams weekly and addresses current events in the Middle East and the Arab world.

For other uses, see Opposite direction (disambiguation).

The Opposite Direction
Arabicالاتجاه المعاكس
Presented byFaisal al-Qassem
Country of originQatar
Original languageArabic
Production
Production locationQatar
Release
Original networkAl Jazeera TV
Original release17 December 1996 (1996-12-17)[1]

The first episode was released in 1996, and today the show is still active. The TV show is hosted by Al Jazeera's TV presenter Faisal al-Qassem. Two guests representing opinions of each side of a given topic being debated are invited to participate in the show.

The show has been called Al Jazeera's "most polemical" program.[2]

In 2001, Al-Qassem was quoted as saying the following about the show's intensions:

"Dialogue is something missing among the Arabs. It is missing in schools, as much as it is missing everywhere else in life of the Arabs. . . . Through programmes such as mine, we hope to implement new rules, those that educate the Arab human being to listen, not only to his own opinion, but to that of the other side as well. The debate-based media must enter in force and strongly in the political life of the Arabs, whether the Arab regimes like it or not."[3][2]

List of episodes

1996
  • The 17th Summit of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Arabic: القمة السابعة عشر لمجلس التعاون الخليجي).

1999
  • 09/11/1999 - The secret relationship between Mauritania and Israel (Arabic: العلاقة السرية بين موريتانيا وإسرائيل).[4]

2022
  • 2022/1/18 - Arab regimes and people's revolutions.. who won? (Arabic: الأنظمة العربية وثورات الشعوب.. من انتصر؟)[5]

See also

References
  1. 1st episode
  2. Abdul-Jabbar, Wisam Kh. (1 March 2018). "Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere". Contemporary Arab Affairs. 11 (1–2): 43–62. doi:10.1525/caa.2018.000004. ISSN 1755-0912.
  3. Bahry, L. Y. 2001. “The New Arab Media Phenomenon: Qatar’s Al-Jazeera.” Middle East Policy 8 (2): 88–99.
  4. "العلاقة السرية بين موريتانيا وإسرائيل". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 July 2022.
  5. "الأنظمة العربية وثورات الشعوب.. من انتصر؟". www.aljazeera.net (in Arabic). Retrieved 21 July 2022.


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