In recent years, Internet users in the MENA region have begun to support increased Internet regulation, according to a study on Media Use in the Middle East by Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q). The school’s dean and CEO, Everette E. Dennis, pointed to that finding to remind the audience at a panel discussion on media […]

The transition from citizen journalist to Al Jazeera correspondent led to more than just a steady paycheck for Ammar Al Haj. It also led to his eventual capture by the Islamic State group. At the beginning of the uprising in Syria, Al Haj spent most of his time relaying information from his position on the […]