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Roots of the New Arab Film

Roy Armes

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2018), xix, 292 pp.

"Roots of the New Arab Film deals with the generation of filmmakers from across North Africa and the Middle East who created an international awareness of Arab film from the mid-1980s onwards. These seminal filmmakers experienced the moment of national independence first-hand in their youth and reta ... more

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The State of Humanitarian Journalism

Martin Scott, Kate Wright, Mel Bunce

Humanitarian-journalism.net;University of East Anglia (2018), 36 pp.

"Very few international news organisations routinely cover humanitarian affairs. Only 12 news outlets reported on all four of the humanitarian events we analysed in 2016. Because of the high costs of producing regular, original journalism on humanitarian issues, commercial news organisations do not ... more

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Khashoggi case and the issue of human rights protection of journalists

Migel Apriliyanto, Made Maharta Yasa

Kertha Patrika, volume 40, issue 3 (2018), pp. 131-140

"Jamal Khashoggi is known for his very sharp critics to Saudi Arabian Governments. He was murdered at the Consulate facility of Saudi Arabia in Istanbul-Turkey. The case has become a concern of international society, put the questions of freedom of expression and press as well the security of journa ... more

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La fabrique audiovisuelle de l'Etat Islamique: La vidéo comme arme de guerre et outil de légitimation et de recrutement

Dhouha Rekik

Paris: L'Harmattan (2018), 134 pp.

"La propagande de guerre de l'EI adopte les codes des genres cinématographiques afin de fictionnaliser le fait guerrier et dissimuler l'fenvers du décors. Cette fantasmagorie surréaliste fonctionne selon un double regime de fascination et de stimulation des pulsions de mort qui ont pour effet de ... more

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Sinai People’s Perceptions of Self-Image Portrayed by the Egyptian Media: A Multidimensional Approach

Alamira Samah Saleh

In: Handbook of Communication for Development and Social Change

Jan Servaes (ed.)

Singapore: Springer (2018), 16 pp.

"This chapter sought to analyze the portrayals of Sinai people in the Egyptian media as it pertains to the people themselves. It started by giving the reader an overview of the current Sinai’s social, security, and economic status quo and structures. Then, it examined how image building could be o ... more

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In Focus: Indepedendent Media Support

In: Supporting People Striving for Democracy: Annual Report 2017

European Endowment for Democracy (EED) (2018), pp. 41-49

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Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
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Florencia Enghel, Jessica Noske-Turner (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2018), xiv, 182 pp.

"International development stakeholders harness communication with two broad purposes: to do good, via communication for development and media assistance, and to communicate do-gooding, via public relations and information. This book unpacks various ways in which different efforts to do good are com ... more

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Recherche-étude sur la formation au journalisme en Tunisie

Michel Leroy

Media Up Programme d’Appui aux Médias Tunisiens;Centre Africain de Perfectionnement des Journalistes et Communicateurs (CAPJC) (2018), 62 pp.

"1. A la lumière de l’attrait du Mastère professionnel (MP) « cross-media » pour les étudiants comme pour les employeurs et d’autres expériences de concours sélectifs, l’ Institut de presse et des sciences de l’information (Ipsi) gagnerait à créer un MP majoritairement ouvert aux au ... more

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Children’s Screen Content in an Era of Forced Migration: Facilitating Arab-European Dialogue. Prix Jeunesse International, Munich. Workshop Briefing 3: Drama, Storytelling, Empathy

Jeanette Steemers, Naomi Sakr, C. Singer

London: King's College (2018), 26 pp.

"This briefing summarises the proceedings of the third workshop in a project to stimulate dialogue between European and Arab stakeholders about European screen content for young children of Arab heritage who are living in Europe through forced migration." (Page 28)

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Online Supplement to Working Paper 2018.1. Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation

Samantha Bradshaw, Philip N. Howard

Oxford: University of Oxford, Oxford Internet Institute;Computational Propaganda Research Project (2018), 81 pp.

"These are the background case notes complied for MEMO 2018.1: Challenging Truth and Trust: A Global Inventory of Organized Social Media Manipulation. For details on the methods behind this content analysis please see the methodology section of the report. This document contains data from over 500 s ... more

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Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection
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Everette E. Dennis et al.

Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2018), 79 pp.

"The retrospection, which covers Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, includes the following highlights: Internet penetration has increased in every country since 2013. The biggest increase occurred in Lebanon – from 58 percent to 91 percent in the la ... more

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Towards Media Sector Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region: Key Results
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MedMedia (2018), 24 pp.

"Part of a €17 million EU-funded programme entitled “Media and Culture for Development in the Southern Mediterranean”, MedMedia was implemented in the Southern Mediterranean from January 2014 until May 2018. The MedMedia programme has given media policy makers, regulators, public service broad ... more

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Explanatory Memorandum: Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World

International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) (2018), 34 pp.

"On 3 May 2016, the Declaration on Media Freedom in the Arab World (Declaration or Arab Declaration) was adopted at a groundbreaking event in Casablanca, Morocco, attended by over 100 delegates representing journalists’ unions, human rights campaigners and media groups from across the Arab World. ... more

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Media Interventions and the Syrian Crisis: Can We Do More?

Lina Srivastava, Vanessa Parra, Linda Raftree, Keefe Murren

Creative Impact and Experience Lab (CIEL);FilmAid (2018), 72 pp.

"[This publication] seeks to create a deeper understanding of the role of media interventions as strategic drivers of impact on the ongoing Syrian crisis. In exploring the impact of media interventions in this context, we conducted a landscape scan and a review of programs and approaches conducted b ... more

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The Status of Women Journalists at Jordan’s Media Institutions

International Media Support (IMS) (2018), 35 pp.

"The study concluded that women have faced and are still facing hindrances driven by gender-based discrimination that have limited their number, dimined their role as journalists and restricted their prospects of professional development. The percentage of women at media organisations is less than 2 ... more

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Media Ownership Monitor Lebanon

Reporters Without Borders;Samir Kassir Foundation (2018), 1323 pp.

"The seemingly buzzing Lebanese media market is, in fact, controlled by only a few highly politicized owners that are either directly affiliated with political parties or belong to Lebanese dynasties. Additional threats to media pluralism arise from clear editorial lines defined by politics, close t ... more

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Internet Freedoms in Palestine: Mapping of Digital Rights Violations and Threats

Marwa Fatafta

Haifa: 7amleh – Arab Center for Social Media Advancement (2018), 35 pp.

"The first part of the report provides a general introduction to the definition of digital rights and what they entail, and surveys key UN resolutions that recognise the impact of the internet on human rights. The second part of the report examines the accessibility of the internet by Palestinians a ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2018: Community Networks

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2018), 259 pp.

"The 43 country reports included in this year’s Global Information Society Watch (GISWatch) capture the different experiences and approaches in setting up community networks across the globe. They show that key ideas, such as participatory governance systems, community ownership and skills transfe ... more

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Refugee Connectivity: A Survey of Mobile Phones, Mental Health an Privacy at a Syrian Refugee Camp in Greece

Mark Latonero, Danielle Poole, Jos Berens

Harvard Humanitarian Initiative;Data & Society Research Institute (2018), 40 pp.

"The study reveals key aspects of digital connectivity in the lives of refugees at the Ritsona camp in Greece in January 2017. Of the approximately 750 residents of the camp, 135 adults were sampled and interviewed [...] Mobile phone access is 'important' to over 80% of refugees in this study. Women ... more

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Communication Interventions Supporting Positive Civic Action in Lebanon

Dylan O'Driscoll

Brighton (UK): K4D;Institute of Development Studies (IDS) (2018), 24 pp.

"This rapid review synthesises data from academic, policy and NGO sources on the role media can play in creating/easing tensions between refugees and the host community, and within the host community itself. Acknowledging the importance media can play in perceptions, and considering the confessional ... more

Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good? Top Insights

Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection Quick Overview

Towards Media Sector Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region: Key Results Top Insights

Communication in International Development: Doing Good or Looking Good?
Top Insights

Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection
Quick Overview

Towards Media Sector Reform in the Southern Mediterranean Region: Key Results
Top Insights