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This article explores the ways in which the debut of Undersecretary for State and Public Diplomacy Karen Hughes was covered in the Arab media. Her outreach efforts to market and rebrand the image of America in the Arab world were announced proudly on the Arab satellite television network Al-Jazeera before the news spread to other Arab media outlets. In making Al-Jazeera the preeminent choice for her first appearance to launch the campaign to win the hearts and minds of Arab publics, Karen Hughes implicitly and explicitly endorses or at the very least subscribes to part of Al-Jazeera's agenda. Through the choice of Al-Jazeera as gateway to the Arab public, Karen Hughes waters down her own opinions and in this case made concessions regarding vital policy issues of the U.S. administration.

This article analyzes the key ways in which Al-Jazeera brings the veil onto the screen and into its network current affairs, news, and religious programming and how it reported on the story of the veil in France between late 2002 and early 2005. Although much of the extant literature on Al-Jazeera describes it as the "CNN of the Arab world," it is more like an Islamic version of CBN (Christian Broadcasting Network) than the secular or nonreligious CNN (Cable Network News) because of the time it devotes to the views of Islamic religious leaders and the ways in which it promotes Islamic practices. Al-Jazeera is not a "liberal" or "neutral" channel; it is a religious and news channel that allows other programs that are liberal or neutral to be shown occasionally.If the news broadcast on Al-Jazeera is pluralist,the religious message that it disseminates almost daily is monodenominational.The author argues that Al-Jazeera is using the issue of the veil in France to influence viewers in France and Europe,build a global Muslim identity,mobilize a shared public opinion,and construct an imagined transnational Muslim community.

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