Gregg Reynolds

Gregg Reynolds is a freelance writer and translator who studied Arabic at the University of Chicago and in Cairo.

Articles by Gregg Reynolds

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Alternative TV

The war throughArab eyes
Apr 19, 2003 by Gregg Reynolds
If good reporting can be judged by the enemies it makes, then al-Jazeera must be doing something right. The Arabic-language TV channel provoked rebukes from the U.S. government and military officials in the early days of “The War on Iraq” (al-Jazeera’s phrase) when it rebroadcast Iraqi footage of dead and captive U.S. soldiers.
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Watching al-Jazeera

The war in real time
Apr 19, 2003 by Gregg Reynolds
Viewers watching the fourth day of the war on al-Jazeera television would have seen these items:

• When coalition sources were announcing the surrender of Iraq’s 51st Division and its commander, General Khalid al-Hashimi, al-Jazeera’s Basra correspondent was interviewing al-Hashimi, who said his troops were in Basra, defending the city.