The jailing in Egypt of three Al Jazeera journalists has shocked many in the West . It broadcasts in Modern Standard Arabic , the modern literary lingua franca which spread in the 1920s as the intelligentsia of the Arabic speaking world sought to modernize Slade : A lot of people are saying that this is a very serious step backwards. Its success is part of a trajectory of media modernisation of media in the Arabic world , says academic . That process continued during the Arab Spring with the growth of social media in Tahrir Square and elsewhere .
The jailing in Egypt of three Al Jazeera journalists has shocked many in the West . Slade : A lot of people are saying that this is a very serious step backwards. Its success is part of a trajectory of media modernisation of media in the Arabic world , says academic . That process continued during the Arab Spring with the growth of social media in Tahrir Square and elsewhere .