Al-Baghdadia TV is an independent Iraqi-owned Arabic-language satellite channel based in Cairo, Egypt. It is considered a Nationalistic channel of unknown funding, possibly Saudi or Egyptian. During the Iraqi insurgency several prominent journalists with the station were murdered. Recently, the station became best known for journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference on December 14...
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Al-Baghdadia TV is an independent Iraqi-owned Arabic-language satellite channel based in Cairo, Egypt. It is considered a Nationalistic channel of unknown funding, possibly Saudi or Egyptian. During the Iraqi insurgency several prominent journalists with the station were murdered. Recently, the station became best known for journalist Muntadhar al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George W. Bush during a press conference on December 14, 2008.
Al-Baghdadia is a general entertainment channel that broadcasts in Arabic via a Hot Bird 8 at 13E satellite Abdel-Hameed al-Sayeh is the station's manager, and Muzhir al-Khafaji is its programming director, both based out of Cairo. They receive some of their programming from Australia-based UBI World TV. The Newseum said, "The station is often critical of the new Iraqi government and of the U.S. presence in Iraq." Dr. Hussein Shaaban, the previous director general of Al Baghdadia, has described the U.S. occupation as “humiliating to...
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