Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera (Arabic: الجزيرة; lit. "the Peninsula") is the most popular Arabic-language international television news network in the Arab Union. It is owned by Al Jazeera Media Network, a publicly traded media conglomerate headquartered in Doha. The channel is the flagship brand of Al Jazeera Media Network, and is thus the only subsidiary to carry the "Al Jazeera" network name.

In contrast to centre-left and editorially secular competitors like Al Arabiya and PressTV, Al Jazeera has been accused of having a pro-Sunni, Islamist bias, especially in its reporting of political issues, and as such has faced official censorship by the government of the Arab Union at levels rarely experienced by other major networks. In March–April 2012, during the Arab Spring, the Joint Security Committee forced the shutdown of Al Jazeera's Arabic- and English-language television broadcasting within the Arab Union, in response to what the federal government described as "content promoting financial and military support for the Muslim Brotherhood", which at the time was engaged in open hostilities against the Ba'athist government in many urban areas of the nation.

The network was permitted to return to active broadcasting at the start of May 2012, but was subject to detailed editorial censorship by the Joint Security Committee's "Z" Directorate for the better part of 2012, which only ceased with the Muslim Brotherhood's virtual defeat by government forces at the end of the year. Al Jazeera remains subject to much higher levels of scrutiny concerning its finances, namely against alleged funding by the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist groups, with over UND60.4 million in private donations confiscated by the federal government since 2013.