PM Crowned “Personality of the Week” For Flaying Islamophobia

Al Jazeera’s weekly program “Sibaq-ul-Akhbar” has named Prime Minister (PM) Imran Khan as “Personality of the Week” for his views and efforts to address the issue of Islamophobia.

Sibaq-ul-Akhbar is an interactive and one-hour live weekly program aired on Al-Jazeera TV Arabic version. 

Covering news reports as well as interviews with the guests, the program is very popular in Arab countries. 

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The channel selects three to four top news of the week and subsequently, viewers are asked to vote as to which is the top news story and personality associated with it.

The viewers of the Sibaq-ul-Akhbar show aired on April 24, voted for PM Imran Khan as “Personality of the Week” for his candid views on the issue of Islamophobia. 

رحلة طويلة سلكها من ملاعب الكريكت إلى ميادين السياسة.. جمهور الجزيرة يعتبر رئيس الوزراء الباكستاني عمران خان شخصية الأسبوع الأبرز بعد دعوته حكومات الغرب إلى تجريم الإساءة للرسول الكريم | تقرير: أحمد جرار#سباق_الأخبار pic.twitter.com/ynarqEem7u

— قناة الجزيرة (@AJArabic) April 25, 2021

In October 2019, Jordan’s Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre named PM Imran as its “Man of the Year” in its list of the most persuasive Muslims in the world.

Choosing Khan as the winner, Professor S Abdallah Schleifer, a Professor Emeritus of Journalism in the American University in Cairo said, “If the Muslim 500 was in print back in 1992 and I was the Chief Editor then, I would have nominated Imran Khan as our Muslim Man of the Year because of his brilliant performance in cricket.”