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-based media watchdog organization with the stated aim of working toward objective British media coverage of the Arab world. Founded in 2000, by Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi
Sharif Hikmat Nashashibi to a Palestinian-Jordanian-Lebanese Muslim father and an Iraqi-Syrian Christian mother. He is co-founder and chairman of the British based organization, Arab Media Watch....
, Arab Media Watch is the "only organization of its kind in the UK". The organization monitors coverage of the Arab world in UK based print and broadcast media. Victor Kattan, author of Why History Matters: International Law and the Origins of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, formerly served as the director of Arab Media Watch, that post is now filled by Muna Nashashibi