Al Arabiya
Saudi domestic and international television broadcaster
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| 2023 | Special Mission receives a gold Telly Award at the 44th Annual Telly Awards, recognizing its outstanding investigative journalism. |
| March 2022 | Al Arabiya acquired its own Freeview channel in the United Kingdom, becoming available on channel 273. |
| 2021 | The network moved operations from Dubai to Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with the goal of producing 12 hours of news programming from the Saudi capital by early January. |
| July 31 2021 | The Algerian Ministry of Communication withdrew Al Arabiya's operating accreditation, citing 'non-respect of deontology rules' and 'disinformation and manipulation'. |
| 2020 | During the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict, Al Arabiya interviewed Armenian President Armen Sarkissian, who criticized Turkey and Azerbaijan for escalating tensions. This interview led to a diplomatic response from Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who accused Saudi Arabia and the UAE of destabilizing the Caucasus and Middle East. |
| July 2020 | The Daily Beast exposed a network of fake reporters associated with Al Arabiya, who were creating opinion pieces aligned with UAE government policy. Twitter subsequently suspended some of these fake columnists' accounts in early July. |
| April 24 2020 | Al Arabiya underwent its first major rebrand since launch, introducing new graphics, audio package, studios, and a modified logo. |
| October 2019 | Mamdouh al-Muhaini became the general manager of the Al Arabiya Network, succeeding Nabil al-Khatib. |
| 2014 | Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki threatened to ban Al Arabiya in Iraq, shut down its offices and websites. In response, Al Arabiya's General Manager Abdulrahman al-Rashed vowed to continue reporting despite the threats. |
| 2013 | Al Arabiya relaunched its English website, introducing automated subtitles for news and programs broadcast on the channel. |
| 2013 | Saudi Islamic scholar Abdulaziz al-Tarefe publicly criticized the channel in a viral tweet. |
| June 2013 | Business Profiles monthly program begins, providing in-depth portraits of regional business leaders, presented by Fatima Zahra Daoui. |
| March 2012 | Al Arabiya launched a new channel called al-Hadath, focusing specifically on political news. |
| January 2011 | During the Egyptian protests, the Al Arabiya website experienced significant technical difficulties, going offline due to heavy traffic related to the Egyptian crisis. |
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