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Media and Peace in the Middle East: The Role of Journalism in Israel-Palestine

Giuliana Tiripelli

Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2016), 191 pp.

"In exploring the dynamics and narratives of peace in journalism, this book explains the media's impact on the transformation of the conflict between Israelis and Palestinians. It discusses the perspectives of peace activists who have been involved in grassroots action since the first Intifada, and ... more

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Social Media in Southeast Turkey: Love, Kinship and Politics

Elisabetta Costa

London: UCL Press;University College London (2016), xi, 194 pp.

"This book presents an ethnographic study of social media in Mardin, a medium-sized town located in the Kurdish region of Turkey. The town is inhabited mainly by Sunni Muslim Arabs and Kurds, and has been transformed in recent years by urbanisation, neoliberalism and political events. Elisabetta Cos ... more

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Global Information Society Watch 2016: Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and the Internet

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2016), 269 pp.

"The 45 country reports gathered here illustrate the link between the internet and economic, social and cultural rights (ESCRs). Some of the topics will be familiar to information and communications technology for development (ICT4D) activists: the right to health, education and culture; the socioec ... more

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Länderbericht Israel

Gisela Dachs (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2016), 765 pp.

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Arab Media Moguls

Donatella Della Ratta, Naomi Sakr, Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp.

"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r ... more

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Journalism and Social Media in Africa: Studies in Innovation and Transformation

Chris Paterson (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), x, 136 pp.

"Through innovative research studies and expert commentaries, this book documents the fast evolving invention of the relationship between the millions of social media and mobile phone users around Africa and traditional purveyors of news. Whilst social media demonstrates an unprecedented ability for ... more

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Online Arab Spring: Social Media and Fundamental Change

Reza Jamali

Waltham, MA: Chandos Publishing;Elsevier (2015), xvi, 91 pp.

"What is the role of social media on fundamental change in Arab countries in the Middle East and North Africa? Online Arab Spring responds to this question, considering five countries: Egypt, Libya, Jordan, Yemen, and Tunisia, along with additional examples. The book asks why the penetration rate fo ... more

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Kurdish Region of Northern Iraq: Humanitarian Information Needs of Syrian Refugees

International Media Support (IMS) (2015), 18 pp.

"The assessment concludes that there is not ‘one magic answer’ to the question of which media channel is the most effective – rather a variety of channels must be used to reach as many people as possible. While TV scores high among both refugees and host population as a preferred media channel ... more

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Digital Technologies and the Evolving African Newsroom: Towards an African Digital Journalism Epistemology

Hayes Mawindi Mabweazara (ed.)

London: Routledge (2015), xi, 120 pp.

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Strategies for Reaching Digital Media Users in MENA: One Region, Multiple Realities

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG);Gallup (2015), 32 slides

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Visual Representation, Propaganda and Cyberspace: The Case of the Palestinian Islamist Movements

Attila Kovacs

CyberOrient, volume 9, issue 1 (2015), pp. 84-129

"The article analyzes the changing position of the visual representation in the context of Islam from the starting point set up in the Qur’an and more specifically in the prophetic tradition to the theoretical positions of Islamic reformism and radicalism and the practice of Islamism movements. To ... more

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1000 Peitschenhiebe: Weil ich sage, was ich denke

Raif Badawi

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2015), 61 pp.

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt

Sherif Mansour

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 16 pp.

"Egypt’s plummeting press freedom is in part a result of the many ways in which the state can put pressure on independent media under Egyptian law. While the January 2014 constitution contains clear protections for the media (including, under Article 71, bans on censorship and surveillance), many ... more

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Stifling the Public Sphere: Media and Civil Society in Egypt, Russia and Vietnam

Zachary Abuza, Sherif Mansour, Maria Snegovaya

Washington, DC: National Endowment for Democracy (NED);International Forum for Democratic Studies (2015), 57 pp.

"The three case studies depict a range of repressive efforts that are calibrated to achieve particular ends. Sometimes, the authorities choose to co-opt independent voices. In other instances, the regime may create new government-backed versions of media initiatives or civic organizations which mimi ... more

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After the Revolution: Libyan and Tunisian Media Through the People’s Eyes

Najla Dowson-Zeidan, Tim Eaton, Karen Wespieser

London: BBC Media Action (2015), 60 pp.

"Libya’s contested and, at times, chaotic political scene is reflected in its media, which represents a range of political and vested interests, sparking narrative and counter narrative. Ultimately, it has left people frustrated that they cannot access the information that they need. In Tunisia, t ... more

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Networked Publics and Digital Contention: The Politics of Everyday Life in Tunisia

Mohamed Zayani

New York: Oxford University Press (2015), xv, 275 pp.

"How is the adoption of digital media in the Arab world affecting the relationship between the state and its subjects? What new forms of online engagement and strategies of resistance have emerged from the aspirations of digitally empowered citizens? This book tells the compelling story of the concu ... more

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Mediated Communities: Civic Voices, Empowerment and Media Literacy in the Digital Era

Moses Shumow (ed.)

New York et al.: Peter Lang (2015), xi, 216 pp.

"Mediated Communities brings together a diverse, global cohort of academics and professional communicators to assess the current state of democratic mobilizing around the world and the ways in which protest movements are being transformed in the midst of a communication revolution. The volume’s co ... more

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Medien und Minderheiten in arabischen Ländern

Sebastian Elässer, Andrea Fischer-Tahir, Kristin Pfeifer

In: Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), pp. 99-116

"Anhand von drei Beispielen, den Kopten in Ägypten, den Imazighen in Marokko und den Kurden im Irak dokumentieren die Autoren dieses Kapitels exemplarisch, wie unterschiedliche Bevölkerungsgruppen versuchen, durch eigene Medien ihre kulturelle, gesellschaftliche und politische Identität zu wahren ... more

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Bravery or Bravado? The Protection of News Providers in Armed Conflict

Nina Burri

Brill (2015), xviii, 450 pp.

"During the last decade, the image of war correspondents in the news has shifted dramatically. Reports are no longer full of cheerleading stories of embedded journalists. Instead, stories of war reporters being attacked, kidnapped or injured prevail. Sadly, the former heroic witnesses to war have be ... more

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Untold Stories: The Socio-Cultural Life of Images in Qajar Era Iran

Pedram Khosronejad (ed.)

Wien; Berlin: Lit (2015), 149 pp.