Al-Jazeera to Launch Documentary, Economic Channels in 2002

The popular Qatari satellite television network al-Jazeera will launch two new channels, one documentary and the other economic, in early 2002, the station's head said to AFP Saturday. 

Mohammad Jassem al-Ali added that the documentary channel "will focus primarily on subjects that interest the Arab world," but gave no details on the topics the economic channel will cover. 

Al-Jazeera, founded in 1996 shortly after Qatari Emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani took power, has become immensely popular in the Arab world for its frank coverage of social and political issues -- AFP 

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