BBC Arabic head Tarik Kafala on the channel’s increasing significance in the modern world
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“We try to avoid describing anyone as a terrorist, or an act as being terrorist,” said Kafala, a British-Libyan who leads a team of about 200 staff at BBC Arabic’s base on the fourth floor of New Broadcasting House. “Terrorism is such a loaded word. The UN has been struggling for more than a decade to define the word and they can’t. It is very difficult to. Clearly, all the officials and commentators [in Paris] are using the word ‘terrorist’, so obviously we do broadcast that.”