Al Arabiya was started in response to Qatar's pan-Arab satellite channel Al Jazeera, but has languished behind in audience popularity surveys, according to reports by University of Maryland professor Shibley Telhami.
Sissoko has said "I am proud of being a Muslim and I follow Ramadan even during the football tournament," on the Dubai-based Arab TV network, Al Arabiya.
In May 2009 Al Arabiya reported that el-Zayat had been invited to defend Mustafa al-Hawsawi, one of the fourteen high-value detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, before a Guantanamo military commission.
He is said to be close to Al Arabiya TV director and Asharq Al-Awsat journalist Abdelrahman Al Rashid and to Othman Al Omeir, who launched and is the owner of the liberal e-newspaper Elaph.
Alhomyed has been a guest analyst and commentator on numerous news and current affair programs including the BBC, German TV, Al Arabiya, Al-Hurra, LBC and the acclaimed Imad Live’s four-part series on terrorism and reformation in Saudi Arabia.
He has appeared on many Arab TV stations especially on Al-Arabiya and on Al Jazeera.
Nadine anchored Al Arabiya's special coverage of the major Cooperation Council for the Arab States of the Gulf (GCC) markets' correction that wiped up to 50 percent of the market capitalization of GCC stocks at the beginning of 2006.
He was a Christian Orthodox married to Giselle Khoury, a talk-show host on Al-Arabiya television.