The papers in this special issue were presented at the conference on 'Global Media and the War on Terror' which was held at the University of Westminster, London, on 13-14 September 2010.
Editorial / Lena Jayyusi, 171
State, culture and anti-Muslim racism / Milly Williamson, Gholam Khiabany, 175
Government intervention in the Iraq war media narrative through direct coercion / Chris Paterson, 181
Operation Moshtarak and the manufacture of credible, ‘heroic’ warfare / Richard Keeble, 187
British military media strategies in modern wars / Rikke Bjerg Jensen, 193
Questioning the Al-Jazeera Effect: Analysis of Al-Qaeda’s media strategy and its relationship with Al-Jazeera / Rasha El-Ibiary, 199
Wars and their journalisms / James Miller, 205
Demonizing Islam before and after 9/11: Anti-Islamic spin – an important factor in pro-war PR? / Sabine Schiffer, 211
The Arab conflicts and the media discourse: A Brazilian perspective / Fernando Resende, Ana Beatriz Paes, 215
Fiction film and the ‘real’ world / Tanja Šakota-Kokot, 221
The abject/the terrorist/the reel Arab – a point of intersection / Hania A. M. Nashef, 227
Terrorism, humor, and American popular culture / Elaine Martin, 233
Torture and intelligence in the War on Terror: The struggle over strategic political communication / Vian Bakir, 239
Mediatized conflicts, performative photographs and contested memory: The Abu Ghraib scandal and the iconic struggle over the meanings of the ‘war on terror’ / Marco Solaroli, 245
Mediating terror: Hollywood narratives of terrorism and young Moroccan audiences / Mohamed El Marzouki, 251
‘PRESS on the appropriate button in the reader’s mind’: News agencies cover ‘terrorism’ / Michael Palmer, 257
Managing the elite consensus: A critical analysis of press discourses over warfare in Iraq / Florian Zollmann, 263
Covering crises: Indian news channels and the Mumbai terror attacks / T.G. Gokul, 269–274
Rival discourses on the ‘war on terror’: Afghanistan and Iraq wars in the opinion columns of liberal and Islamist newspapers in Turkey / Dilruba Çatalbas Ürper, 275
News framing of the ‘Detroit Bomber’ in the Nigerian press / Muhammad Jameel Yusha’u, 281
Post-9/11 era : To the end of a period / Aurélia Lamy, 287