The latest Mosaic Special Report, ELECTION 2004: THE MIDDLE EAST FACTOR, examines how the war in Iraq is changing the course of the 2004 Presidential Election.  Polls show that for the first time in more than twenty years, voters consider U.S. foreign policy to be the most important factor in November. What was once a referendum on jobs and health care has now become, to a great extent, a question for voters of �Who can keep us safer?�  How is each candidate shifting in response to the Iraq war and terrorism? Can the Arab media alter these elections by providing open airways to terrorists?  And what about the shadow players, Al Qaeda and the Iraqi insurgents--how would a major strike against Americans change the course of our presidency? 

To answer these questions, we bring together top journalists with on-the-ground experience in the Middle East.  They analyze news reports from Arabic language news stations�from Al Jazeera Television to the Hezbollah-backed Al Manar TV�to show you how 300 million viewers in the Middle East are watching and reacting to the U.S. presidential elections. ELECTION 2004:  THE MIDDLE EAST FACTOR brings you images and information you�ll find nowhere else on U.S. airwaves.

GUESTS INCLUDE:

HAFEZ AL-MIRAZI, Washington bureau chief for Al Jazeera Television & host of the weekly show, �From Washington,� highlighting U.S. positions for Arab audiences.

MARK DANNER, staff writer for The New Yorker, Professor of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley.  He also writes extensively about Iraq for The New York Review of Books.

JAMAL DAJANI, Director of Middle Eastern Programming for LinkTV and producer of the daily news show, Mosaic: World News from the Middle East.

Also appearing is presidential candidate RALPH NADER.