In Control Room, a film on the Arab language television satellite network al-Jazeera, interviewer Abdullah Schleifer presses U.S. Marine Lieutenant Josh Rushing to look at the Middle East as it is ...

FOR AMERICANS, mostly informed by the Pentagon and embedded American and European journalists, it was the "War in Iraq," a daily drama with attractive graphics and dramatic captions on the television.

Jehane Noujaim, an Egyptian American filmmaker at home in two cultures, observed a war with dramatically different meanings in each of them. She was in Doha, Qatar, hanging out with journalists when a ...