The other co-owner of Rotana, which also broadcasts the religious channel Al-Resalah, is none other than media mogul Rupert Murdoch, of Fox News Channel fame, shareholder of the newly-launched channel Sky News Arabic. Salah Kamel is also the owner of ART, the former “Arab media empire” of which nothing but the religious TV channel إقـــــــرأ (meaning “Read” in Arabic) remains, after the TV network group divested from its sports channels to Al Jazeera (which would become Al Jazeera Sports, as we saw in a previous post) and its music channels to the Saudi group Rotana, co-property of Saudi Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal, considered today’s richest man in the Arab world. One of the main driving forces behind the creation of MBC in the early 1990s is the well-known Saudi businessman صـــالح كـــــامل ( Salah Kamel) , owner of one of the largest banks operating in the Arab world today, the Islamic Bank Dalla Baraka, and widely recognized as “the pioneer of Islamic Banking.” Today, MBC is equally shared between Abdulaziz bin Fahd, the favorite son of the late Saudi King Fahd, and his maternal uncle. In fact, just last year, the MBC group celebrated its 20th anniversary. No, it is not yet another Arabic-language Satellite channel that just got off the ground… The Middle East Broadcasting Center, does it ring a bell? Al Jazeera turned into a powerhouse name that nearly everyone knows today some also know Al Arabiya-But how about the MBC, a.k.a.
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