Islam and the West in the Mass Media: Fragmented Images in a Globalizing World
Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press (2000), xviii, 299 pp.
Contains index
Series: Hampton Press Communication Series. Political Communication
ISBN 1-57273-267-9 (hbk; 1-57273-268-7 (pbk)
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"This volume presents a range of information and analysis on the difficult relationship between the West and the Islamic world. It examines how the Western media has interpreted and misinterpreted Islam, the Arab world and the countries of the contemporary Middle East." (Publisher description)
(INTRODUCTION
International news coverage and the problems of media globalization: in search of a "new global-local nexus" / Kai Hafez, 3
I. ISLAM AND THE WEST In THE MASS MEDIA: GENERAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES
1 The Middle East and Islam in Western mass media: towards a comprehensive theory of foreign reporting / Kai Hafez, 27
2 Foreign policy, the media, and the western perception of the Middle East / Jochen Hippler, 67
3 Right-wing movements, Islam, and the media: the influence of the media on ethnic-religious integration in Europe / Irmgard Pinn, 89
4 The renewal of the global media debate: implications for the relationship between the West and the Islamic world / Hamid Mowlana, 105
II. ISLAM AND THE WEST IN THE MASS MEDIA: EMPIRICAL COUNTRY STUDIES
5 The Euro-Iranian dialogue and the West in Iranian media: official, loyalist, and alternative views in the nineties / Katajun Amirpur, Henner Fürtig and Javad Kooroshy, 121
6 Islam and the West: perspectives from the Egyptian press, with particular emphasis on Islamist papers / Walid M. Abdelnasser, 141
7 Framing Islam: an analysis of newspaper coverage of Islam in the British press / Elizabeth Poole, 157
8 Imbalances of Middle East coverage: a quantitative analysis of the German press / Kai Hafez, 181
III. THE POLITICS OF ISLAM: RECONSIDERING WESTERN MEDIA PERCEPTIONS
9 Islam and the West: hostage to history? / Majid Tehranian, 201
10 Islamic fundamentalism and its image in the Western media: alternative views / Olfat Hassan Agha, 219
11 Islam as an ethnicity? the media's impact on misperceptions in the West / Krista E. Wiegand, 235
IV. CAN THIS IMAGE BE SAVED? CHANGING MEDIA IMAGES
12 Can this image be saved? Arab-Americans and the media / Orayb Aref Najjar, 255
13 The rise and decline of opinion leaders: the changing image of the Middle East and Islam in German mass media / Kai Hafez, Karin Horner and Verena Klemm, 273
International news coverage and the problems of media globalization: in search of a "new global-local nexus" / Kai Hafez, 3
I. ISLAM AND THE WEST In THE MASS MEDIA: GENERAL AND THEORETICAL STUDIES
1 The Middle East and Islam in Western mass media: towards a comprehensive theory of foreign reporting / Kai Hafez, 27
2 Foreign policy, the media, and the western perception of the Middle East / Jochen Hippler, 67
3 Right-wing movements, Islam, and the media: the influence of the media on ethnic-religious integration in Europe / Irmgard Pinn, 89
4 The renewal of the global media debate: implications for the relationship between the West and the Islamic world / Hamid Mowlana, 105
II. ISLAM AND THE WEST IN THE MASS MEDIA: EMPIRICAL COUNTRY STUDIES
5 The Euro-Iranian dialogue and the West in Iranian media: official, loyalist, and alternative views in the nineties / Katajun Amirpur, Henner Fürtig and Javad Kooroshy, 121
6 Islam and the West: perspectives from the Egyptian press, with particular emphasis on Islamist papers / Walid M. Abdelnasser, 141
7 Framing Islam: an analysis of newspaper coverage of Islam in the British press / Elizabeth Poole, 157
8 Imbalances of Middle East coverage: a quantitative analysis of the German press / Kai Hafez, 181
III. THE POLITICS OF ISLAM: RECONSIDERING WESTERN MEDIA PERCEPTIONS
9 Islam and the West: hostage to history? / Majid Tehranian, 201
10 Islamic fundamentalism and its image in the Western media: alternative views / Olfat Hassan Agha, 219
11 Islam as an ethnicity? the media's impact on misperceptions in the West / Krista E. Wiegand, 235
IV. CAN THIS IMAGE BE SAVED? CHANGING MEDIA IMAGES
12 Can this image be saved? Arab-Americans and the media / Orayb Aref Najjar, 255
13 The rise and decline of opinion leaders: the changing image of the Middle East and Islam in German mass media / Kai Hafez, Karin Horner and Verena Klemm, 273
