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On 6 November 2015, the Saudi-controlled Arabsat satellite TV organization suspended and banned Al-Mayadeen from broadcasting on Arabsat's satellite system. Following its first year of broadcast the channel began to be known by Matthew Keys as 'anti-Al Jazeera'. ДЄl Mayadeen prefers to refer to the rebels as 'terrorists,' and to the actions of the Syrian government against the rebels as 'cleansing' when reporting the Syrian civil war.

It is further claimed by Zeina Karam of the Associated Press that the channel's close ally in Lebanon is the powerful Shiite militant group Hezbollah. On the other hand, It is also argued by France 24 and Mohammed Al Jazairy of Asharq Alawsat that Al Mayadeen represents the latest expansion of Iran, Syria and Hezbollah in the field of media. It was also stated that the Palestinian cause is the channel's centerpiece. Its slogan is вЂњReality as it isвЂќ and its editorial policy emphasizes that Palestine and resistance movements wherever they are found are its point of reference.

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The channel argues that it provides journalism, which is вЂњcommitted to nationalist, pan-Arab and humanitarian issues within the template of professional journalistic objectivity.вЂќ In addition, it presents itself as a вЂњfree and independent media projectвЂќ with 500 staff and reporters in Arab and Western capitals. The name of the channel, Al Mayadeen, means 'the squares' in English, indicating its objective 'to provide coverage for the Arab popular actions on the squares of change in the context of the Arab spring revolutions'. The channel had formerly aired a program, namely Hadeeth Dimashq (meaning 'Damascus dialogueвЂќ in English), focusing on the Syrian civil war, until April 2014, when it was discontinued.

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One of its programs is A Free Word, a show hosted by George Galloway. As of September 2013, the channel had ten daily news reports and nearly 17 distinct programs. ProgrammingДЄl Mayadeen is on air for 24 hours daily. Omar Abdel Qader, a Syrian cameraman working for Al Mayadeen, was killed by a sniper during clashes in Deir Ezzor on 8 March 2014. The correspondent of the channel in Damascus was withdrawn in April 2014. Their task is reported to provide the channel with a daily news section in the news broadcast entitled вЂњA Window Into Palestine.вЂќ In addition, there are reporters of the channel in Amman, Tripoli, Rabat, Khartoum, Mauritania and Comoros. The channel has a network of reporters in Palestine (specifically, in Gaza and Ramallah) and also, in Jerusalem. George Galloway, a former British MP, is a presenter for the channel.

Like Jiddo, most of the channel's staff are the former Al Jazeera correspondents and editors. Additionally, two Syrian journalists, Ramia Ibrahim and Futoun Abbasi, and two Palestinian journalists Kamal Khalaf and Ahmad Sobh as well as Yemeni Mona Safwan are also among its staff. The staff of the channel include Lebanese journalists such as Sami Kulaib, Ali Hashem, the former Al Jazeera war correspondent, who resigned from the Qatari channel for claims it refused to broadcast footage of militants on the Lebanese Syrian borders in the early days of the Syrian uprising, Zahi Wehbe, Lina Zahreddine, Lana Mudawwar, Muhammad Alloush, Ahmad Abu Ali and Dina Zarkat. Nayef Krayem, the owner of the Lebanon-based Al Ittihad TV and former director of the Hezbollah-affiliated Al Manar TV, was designated as the general manager of the channel, but he resigned one month before its launch. Jiddo seemingly accused Al Jazeera of deviating from 'professional broadcasting standards', emphasizing that Al Mayadeen would remain objective and unbiased. He resigned from the Qatar-based Al Jazeera in 2011, criticizing its reporting of the Syrian civil war. He is the former head of Al JazeeraвЂ™s Iran and Beirut offices and a former talk show host in the channel. Ghassan bin Jiddo is the head of the board of directors and program director of the channel.

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