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Arab media struggle to adapt to new-found freedom

Caught out by last year’s Arab Spring uprisings, the region’s media are still coming to terms with their new-found freedom from the strong-arm tactics of now toppled dictators, participants in a Dubai conference say. “Turmoil, chaos, change… words that perfectly capture the situation in the Arab world”.