Insights needed

Change is (hopefully) brewing across the Arab world:

"Arabs are no longer blaming external forces for giving the region and its media a bad name. As debates at the 'Arab and World Media Conference' revealed, they are also attempting to identify the deficiencies in their own systems and demanding remedies to overcome them."

Arab journalists face greater challenges than their Western counterparts, due to overt censorship and government pressure.

Many Arab journalists in the West face hurdles too, as the Western Arab narrative both deceives and distorts the uniqueness and problems of the Arab world.