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Electronic Intifada’s section on the Media is available in English:
http://electronicintifada.net/themedia.shtml
Documents by Arab Press Freedom Watch are available in Arabic and English:
http://www.apfw.org/indexarabic.asp?txtSearchText=%DD%E1%D3%D8%ED%E4&btnSearch=%C8%CD%CB
http://www.apfw.org/indexenglish.asp?txtSearchText=palestine
The 2004 report by Arab Press Freedom Watch “The State of the Arab Media: Freeing the Arab media from state control” is available in English and Arabic:
http://www.apfw.org/data/annualreports/2004/english/2004annualreport.pdf
Articles and documents by Article 19 are available in English:
http://www.article19.org/search-results/index.html?freetext=Palestine
Information on press freedom violations by the Committee to Protect Journalists is available in English:
http://www.cpj.org/regions_07/mideast_07/mideast_07.html - israel
The 2006 annual report by the Committee to Protect Journalists on attacks on the press is available in English and Arabic:
http://www.cpj.org/attacks06/mideast06/isr06.html
http://www.cpj.org/attacks06/lang/attacks2006arb.pdf
Other and earlier reports by the Committee to Protect Journalists is available in English:
Documents by the International Freedom of Expression eXchange are available in English and Arabic:
http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/227/
http://www.hrinfo.net/ifex/alerts/palestine/
Documents of the International Federation of Journalists are available in English:
http://www.ifj.org/default.asp?issue=mainresult&Language=EN
The Palestinian Press and Publication Law is available on the IJNet in English:
http://ijnet.org/Director.aspx?P=MediaLaws&ID=303243&LID=4
The annual World Press Freedom Review by the International Press Institute is available in English:
http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/freedom_detail.html?country=/KW0001/KW0004/KW0101/
Other and earlier documents by the International Press Institute are available in English:
http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/search.html?query=Palestine
Second report on Internet in the Arab World “Implacable adversaries: Arab Governments and the Internet” by Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo) is available in English and Arabic:
http://www.openarab.net/en/reports/net2006/palestine.shtml
http://www.openarab.net/reports/net2006/palestine.shtml
Documents by the Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms are available on the website of Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo) in Arabic:
http://www.hrinfo.net/palestine/mada/
Other documents on Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (HRInfo) are available in Arabic:
http://www.hrinfo.net/palestine/
A 2006 report on “Restructuring radio broadcasting in Arab Countries” by the Institut Panos in Paris is available in English:
http://www.panosparis.org/fichierProdGB/fichierProd1486.pdf
The IREX Media Sustainability in the MENA region is available in English, French, and Arabic:
http://www.irex.org/programs/MSI_MENA/2005/MSI05_MENA_PL.pdf
http://www.irex.org/programs/MSI_MENA/2005/french/MSI_MENA05_PLT_fr.pdf
http://www.irex.org/programs/MSI_MENA/2005/arabic/MSI05_MENA_pale_ar.pdf
Articles in English on the website of Arab Media & Society on Palestine include:
“‘Huge need for independent media’ in Middle East: Ammannet founder Daoud Kuttab”
http://www.arabmediasociety.org/countries/index.php?c_article=68
“Amal Jamal (2005): Media politics and democracy in Palestine: political culture, pluralism, and the Palestinian Authority”
http://www.arabmediasociety.org/countries/index.php?c_article=45
“Dor, Daniel (2005): The suppression of guilt. The Israeli media & the reoccupation of the
http://www.arabmediasociety.org/countries/index.php?c_article=46
The annual report by Reporters without Borders is available in English and Arabic:
http://www.rsf.org/country-43.php3?id_mot=155&Valider=OK
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_ar.pdf
The annual World Press Freedom Index by Reporters Without Borders is available in English:
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/cm2006_mo-2.pdf
A 2006 report of a fact finding mission in
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rapport_en_md.pdf
http://www.rsf.org/article.php3?id_article=20263
The Amnesty International Report 2007 is available in English and Arabic:
http://thereport.amnesty.org/eng/Regions/Middle-East-and-North-Africa/Palestinian-Authority
http://thereport.amnesty.org/ara/Regions/Middle-East-and-North-Africa/Palestinian-Authority
Other documents by Amnesty International are available in English and Arabic:
http://web.amnesty.org/library/eng-pse/index
The annual Map of Press Freedom by Freedom House is available in English:
http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=251&year=2006
2007 Annual World Report by Human Rights Watch in English and Arabic:
http://hrw.org/englishwr2k7/docs/2007/01/11/isrlpa14707.htm
http://hrw.org/arabic/docs/2007/01/11/isrlpa14929.htm
Documents in English and Arabic by Human Rights Watch:
http://www.hrw.org/doc?t=mideast&c=isrlpa
Documents by International Crisis group in English and Arabic:
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2745&l=1
http://www.crisisgroup.org/home/index.cfm?id=2745&l=6
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