The BBC’s first foreign-language service, BBC Arabic Radio, has gone off the air after more than eight decades of broadcasting. The shutdown of BBC Arabic Radio is part of a broader restructuring at ...

The BBC‘s Arabic radio service went off the air for the final time on Friday after 85 years of broadcasting. The corporation announced the closure of BBC Arabic and Persian radio in September as part ...

The move came as part of cost-cutting measures under which the news service is also ending its radio programming in 10 other languages, including Persian, Chinese and Hindi. By Maya King The BBC’s ...

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Expats will no longer be able to tune in to many of the BBC’s radio stations after the broadcaster took the decision to limit access to its audio streaming services. I was really disappointed to find ...

LONDON, Oct. 25 - The BBC World Service announced Tuesday that it would shut down 10 of its foreign-language broadcasts, most of them serving Eastern Europe, and open an Arabic-language television ...

BBC World Service has announced the appointment of a new Head of BBC Arabic, the oldest and largest of its 43 language services. Hosam El Sokkari, the current Head of BBC Arabic Online, will take up ...

Dubai 30 April. BBC Arabic has been inspired by the success of its Your future... who decides it? events in Egypt, Jordan, Sudan, West Bank and Syria which encouraged debate around a range of national ...

BBC Arabic opens its Cairo Production Centre with a landmark radio series and a revamped website BBC Arabic marks the official opening of its Cairo Production Centre and its new-look website, ...

The BBC has increased its presence in the Middle East with an important new partnership. Listeners in Beirut and throughout Lebanon can now hear the BBC Arabic Service for two hours every day on the ...