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New Issue of the Arab Media and Society
The online journal Arab Media and Society has published its new issue (Issue 21, 2015) that focuses on pan-Arab TV channels, Egyptian media, and terrorism. Some articles include podcasts.
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12 Jan 2016

New Book: Media Power and Global Television News: The Role of Al Jazeera English
The book considers Al Jazeera English's position in the global news environment. The Middle East has been a particular focus of global crisis reporting. Yet, international coverage of these conflicts has historically been presented through a 'Western' perspective. The absence of Arab voices in the global public sphere has created a discursive gap between the Middle East and the rest of the world. The arrival of Al Jazeera English might, therefore, be regarded as an attempt to bridge this gap by broadcasting discourses from and about the Arab world. Using a framing analysis of selected news reports by Al Jazeera English before and after the so-called 'Arab Spring' protests, this book considers Al Jazeera English's position in the global news environment and identifies the extent to which it addresses this gap between the Arab and global spheres.
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11 Jan 2016

New Book: Women and Cultural Citizenship in Turkey: Mass Media and 'Woman's Voice' Television
The author examines the diversification of mass media in Turkey following liberalization in the 1980s. Specifically looking at popular women's talk shows ("Woman's Voice" Television), she explores the way in which groups with political and cultural power control public discourse and the public sphere in Turkey, and how urban/rural and Islamist/secular oppositions play out. The author traces the development of mass media in Turkey, particularly television, and closely examining how narrations of violence against women are presented.
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21 Dec 2015

New Issue of the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research
The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research released its new issue (Vol. 8, Issue 2, 2015), edited by Noureddine Miladi from the Qatar University. The issue focuses on TV programme content and online communication tools.
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18 Dec 2015

New Book: Preaching Islamic Renewal: Religious Authority and Media in Contemporary Egypt
The book examines the life and work of Muhammad Mitwalli Sha‘rawi, one of Egypt's most beloved and successful Islamic preachers. His wildly popular TV program aired every Friday for years until his death in 1998. At the height of his career, it was estimated that up to 30 million people tuned in to his show each week. Yet despite his pervasive and continued influence in Egypt and the wider Muslim world, Sha‘rawi was for a long time neglected by academics. While much of the academic literature that focuses on Islam in modern Egypt repeats the claim that traditionally trained Muslim scholars suffered the loss of religious authority, Sha‘rawi is instead an example of a well-trained Sunni scholar who became a national media sensation. As an advisor to the rulers of Egypt as well as the first Arab television preacher, he was one of the most important and controversial religious figures in late-twentieth-century Egypt.
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26 Nov 2015

New Book: Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World: A Decade of Change
This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the sociopolitical dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satellite television, Facebook, Web 2.0 technology, posters, and music videos. Topics range across the politics of popular culture, women scholars' religious fatwas, the Palestinian visual public sphere, Hezbollah's media policy, women's presence on Arab satellite television, and the uses of Facebook in the Tunisian revolution.
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25 Nov 2015

Helga Tawil-Souri,
Problematizing Cyber Warfare,
CyberOrient,
Vol. 9, Iss. 1, 2015
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Donatella Della Ratta,
Violence and Visibility in Contemporary Syria: An Ethnography of the “Expanded Places”,
CyberOrient,
Vol. 9, Iss. 1, 2015
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New Book: Preaching Islamic Revival: Amr Khaled, Mass Media and Social Change in Egypt
The book examines the differences between Amr Khaled's pre-revolutionary and post-revolutionary messages and looking in-depth at how deals with the concepts of Islam and modernity. By examining issues such as Amr Khaled s use of mass media, his views on gender role and the nature of political and religious rule, the author offers a book which will appeal to those interested in the changes that Egypt has experienced over the last century.
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7 Aug 2015

New Book: The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture
The chapters of the book survey key issues necessary to any understanding of the modern Arab World: the role of the various forms of the Arabic language in modern culture and identity; the remarkable intellectual transformation undergone during the 'Nahda' or 'Arab Renaissance' of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the significant role played by ethnic and religious minorities, and the role of law and constitutions. Other chapters on poetry, narrative, theatre, cinema and television, art, architecture, humour, folklore, and food offer fresh perspectives and correct negative stereotypes that emerge from viewing Arab culture primarily through the lens of politics, terrorism, religion, and economics.
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14 Jun 2015