An Evaluation of the Performance of the Al-alam TV Channel during the Islamic Awakening Events

The events in the Arab world throughout 2001 brought different types of challenges and changes in the political and social features of the region. These revolutions which began from Tunisia and still is going on in other countries such as Bahrain changed the regional structures in different spheres. The role of media was very important in this regard to the extend to which some analysts believe that all these changes in these countries specially in Egypt and Tunisia happened because of media. Al-alam News TV channel played a very significant role in this regard. This research is an attempt to analyze the role of Al-alam in this area. Al-alam as an official Iranian media entered this arena with full capacity and offered a totally different perspective based on Islam, tendency towards Islam, fighting tyrannies, and opposing the Zionist regime. The main question in this project is whether Al-alam embarked on this kind of news coverage attentively? The hypothesis of this research is that due to the role and position of Al-alam, this news network had a clear agenda and did his job attentively and purposefully.