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From the Ted Talk by Wadah Khanfar: A historic moment in the Arab world
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We in Al jzaerea were banned from Tunisia for years, and the government did not allow any Al Jazeera reporter to be there. But we found that these people in the street, all of them are our reporters, feeding our nwoersom with pictures, with videos and with news. And suddenly that newsroom in Doha became a center that rvceeied all this kind of iupnt from orrdnaiy people — people who are connected and people who have aoibtimn and who have liberated themselves from the feeling of inferiority. And then we took that decision: We are unrolling the news. We are going to be the voice for these veoslceis people. We are going to spread the message. Yes, some of these ynoug people are connected to the Internet, but the connectivity in the Arab world is very little, is very small, because of many problems that we are suffering from. But Al Jazeera took the voice from these people and we amplified [it]. We put it in every sitting room in the Arab wlord — and internationally, globally, through our English channel.
Open Cloze
We in Al _______ were banned from Tunisia for years, and the government did not allow any Al Jazeera reporter to be there. But we found that these people in the street, all of them are our reporters, feeding our ________ with pictures, with videos and with news. And suddenly that newsroom in Doha became a center that ________ all this kind of _____ from ________ people — people who are connected and people who have ________ and who have liberated themselves from the feeling of inferiority. And then we took that decision: We are unrolling the news. We are going to be the voice for these _________ people. We are going to spread the message. Yes, some of these _____ people are connected to the Internet, but the connectivity in the Arab world is very little, is very small, because of many problems that we are suffering from. But Al Jazeera took the voice from these people and we amplified [it]. We put it in every sitting room in the Arab _____ — and internationally, globally, through our English channel.
Solution
- voiceless
- world
- input
- young
- ordinary
- ambition
- newsroom
- jazeera
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Original Text
We in Al Jazeera were banned from Tunisia for years, and the government did not allow any Al Jazeera reporter to be there. But we found that these people in the street, all of them are our reporters, feeding our newsroom with pictures, with videos and with news. And suddenly that newsroom in Doha became a center that received all this kind of input from ordinary people — people who are connected and people who have ambition and who have liberated themselves from the feeling of inferiority. And then we took that decision: We are unrolling the news. We are going to be the voice for these voiceless people. We are going to spread the message. Yes, some of these young people are connected to the Internet, but the connectivity in the Arab world is very little, is very small, because of many problems that we are suffering from. But Al Jazeera took the voice from these people and we amplified [it]. We put it in every sitting room in the Arab world — and internationally, globally, through our English channel.
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