So the other day I was surfing (No, not at the beach, on my TV) and I decided to check channel 375, on DirecTV, which is LinkTV here in Seattle. It was at that exact time that divine providence (or maybe dumb luck) allowed me to stumble upon Mosaic: World News from the Middle East.
As luck would have it, that show had a segment on about the recent kidnapping of some Italian tourists. The segment showed a rally in Sana’a against the kidnappings and interviewed several demonstrators who denounced the actions of the kidnappers.
A government spokesperson also denounced the kidnappings and reaffirmed Yemen’s desire to grow its tourism industry. Just the sort of encouragement I need before trudging off to Sana’a.
What I thought was interesting is that I didn’t see any women at the demonstration and then – BOOM! All of a sudden a woman appears, out of the blue, to give a statement to the camera. Covered head to foot, to be sure, but hey, you can’t have everything.
One thing I found interesting is that the broadcasters from the different countries never referred to an Arab as being killed, but as being martyred.
It was rather interesting to see news events as an Arab would see them. Here is the program’s description per LinkTV:
“Mosaic features selections from daily TV news programs produced by national broadcasters throughout the Middle East. The news reports are presented unedited and translated, when necessary, into English.Mosaic includes television news broadcasts from selected national and regional entities. Some of the broadcasters are state controlled and others are private networks, often affiliated with political factions. These news reports are regularly watched by 300 million people in 22 countries all over the Middle East.”
LinkTV also allows a person to view streaming video from past episodes online, just in case you don’t get LinkTV through your local cable provider. The show is on at 10:30pm Eastern time and 7:30 Pacific.
http://www.worldlinktv.org/programming/programDescription.php4?code=mosaic
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