The BBC’s first foreign-language service, BBC Arabic Radio, has gone off the air after more than eight decades of broadcasting. The shutdown of BBC Arabic Radio is part of a broader restructuring at ...

The move came as part of cost-cutting measures under which the news service is also ending its radio programming in 10 other languages, including Persian, Chinese and Hindi. By Maya King The BBC’s ...

Among the BBC’s massive budget cuts announced in late January were 650 jobs, the shuttering of approximately 15% of its foreign language services, and, most importantly, severe cuts to Arabic-language ...

The BBC‘s Arabic radio service went off the air for the final time on Friday after 85 years of broadcasting. The corporation announced the closure of BBC Arabic and Persian radio in September as part ...

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BBC World Service has announced the appointment of a new Head of BBC Arabic, the oldest and largest of its 43 language services. Hosam El Sokkari, the current Head of BBC Arabic Online, will take up ...

Yahlive, the UAE-based satellite broadcasting company, is growing its successful regionally focused platform with the addition of the BBC World Service television channels, BBC Persian and BBC Arabic, ...

It will be the first publicly funded international television service launched by the BBC, and marks a fundamental change for BBC World Service, which has led the world with its international radio ...

Dubai 30 April. BBC Arabic has been inspired by the success of its Your future... who decides it? events in Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, West Bank and Syria which encouraged debate around a range of national ...