In the Eye of the Storm: Can Al Jazeera Survive the Gulf Crisis?

In June 2015, the leader of the Syrian branch of al-Qaeda gave his first ever television interview. In an undisclosed location in northern Syria, Abu Mohammed Al Jolani was shown seated on what appeared to be a gilded wooden chair in a windowless room, opposite Ahmed Mansour, a prominent anchor from the Arabic news network Al Jazeera.

The interview encapsulated everything that makes Al Jazeera one of the world’s most influential and most controversial news networks.