itics, strategy and media studies, provides more comprehensive news coverage and a deeper analysis. Its content includes analysis, balanced facts and information delivery to develop understanding of the region’s affairs from within. To share this analytical educational material and its research and dialogue activities with the public and internet users, the centre launched a page on AlJazeera.net in 2008. The page became an independent English and Arabic website in 2011. To enhance access to its book publications and expand the circle of those who can benefit from its products in general, the centre has uploaded more than 100 of its books as PDFs to its website under “E-Books”. Since 2011, Al Jazeera Centre for Studies has initiated two newsletters that are sent to users via email, the first is Al Marsad , to all users, and the second, Al Mujaz , which is aimed at Al Jazeera’s Editors and Journalists. In line with this same educational and cultural context, and with the aim of providing information to the public, Al Jazeera’s documentary channel launched its website, Doc.AlJazeera.net, in January 2009. This website is one of the Arab world’s largest visual documentary libraries. It includes hundreds of Arabic films that represent a cultural heritage “which is an asset for future generations to know their culture, identity and civilisation, in a time that the Arab identity is being dissolved; and this is what the documentary channel wants to preserve”, according to its Director, Ahmed Mahfouz (1) . According to statistics more than 14 million people have viewed its YouTube channel since 2019, while its YouTube subscribers have exceeded 550,000, making it the largest Ar- abic channel specialising in documentary films on YouTube. There are more than 2,600 total viewing hours on the channel, with more than 1,800 titles falling under different documentary types (2) . As part of the digital verification project for Al Jazeera’s pro- grammes about the Palestinian cause, Al Jazeera launched an inter- (1) “Al Jazeera Documentary Celebrates its Thirteenth Year”, Al Arab , 6 January 2020, https:// bit.ly/3lbRLBQ (accessed 4 October 2020). (2) “Al Jazeera Documentary Launches Short Film Competition to Commemorate its Thir- teenth Year”, Al Jazeera Documentary , 1 January 2020, https://bit.ly/3uL16DO (accessed 4 October 2020).
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