Its program Al Itijah al Mu’akess (“the opposite direction”) brought the sort of verbal jousts that most of the world takes for granted but Arabs had never seen televised. The guests that Faisal Qassem brought to the Doha studios (or via satellite) included people from the same Arab country or region but representing completely opposing points of view.
半岛电视台不仅提供了现场采访以及直播，而且还向阿拉伯世界引进了现场辩论。它的名叫”反方向“的节目带来了世界大多数地方习以为常、而阿拉伯人从来没有在电视上见过的唇枪舌战。卡萨姆带到多哈录像棚(或者通过卫星) 的人包括来自同一个阿拉伯国家或者地区、但是代表了截然相反观点的人士。