Al Jazeera

For decades, the global narrative was dictated from London and New York. The news beamed into billions of homes presented a world seen through a single, powerful lens-one where the Global South was often a backdrop for crisis, a subject of pity, or a threat to be managed. Then, in 1996, a signal from the tiny Gulf nation of Qatar cracked the foundation of this information empire.

Al Jazeera: Voice of the Global South is a riveting geopolitical investigation into the news network that change...