Endings and Beginnings (BBC Radio Closing Story)

This book documents a defining moment in the history of Arab media: the closure of BBC Arabic Radio after eighty-five years of continuous broadcasting. A work that combines documentation and analysis, providing a professional and humanitarian testimony about one of the most important media institutions in the Arab world, through the experience of the author who assumed responsibility for it in its last decade. The book takes us behind the scenes of “Here is London” and monitors how the media moved from the era of the air to the era of digital transformation, and how the ancient radio station faced the challenge between preserving its historical legacy and keeping pace with the new era. It is not just a book about a media institution, but rather about the end of one time and the beginning of another in the path of Arab media, and about the people who carried the voice and message across generations.