Fox Sports Arabia (formerly ESPN STAR Sports Arabia from 1997 to 1998) was an Emirati pay television sports channel that broadcast to the entire

MENA MENA, an acronym in the English language, refers to a grouping of countries situated in and around the Middle East and North Africa. It is also known as WANA, SWANA, or NAWA, which alternatively refers to the Middle East as Western Asia (or a ...

region including the

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and

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

. It was available as a part of the STAR Select package of television channels. The channel was originally launched as Fox Sports on 16 January 1998. The channel changed its name to Fox Sports Middle East on 1 April 1999, but it was apparently later renamed back to Fox Sports, before it was eventually shut down.

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