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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity

Omar Al-Ghazzi

Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601

"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1 ... more

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Outside In: The Practices and Perceptions of Iranian Diaspora Journalists

Magdalena Wojcieszak, Amy Brouillette, Briar Smith

Philadelphia, PA: Annenberg School for Communication, Center for Global Communication’s Iran Media Program (2013), 31 pp.

"Our findings are based on responses to an online questionnaire completed by 69 Iranian journalists living and working outside Iran. A majority of respondents surveyed left Iran after 2005 and work as journalists for online media outlets [...] Our research indicates that Iranian journalists living a ... more

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Freedom on the Net 2013: A Global Assessment of Internet and Digital Media

Sanja Kelly, Mai Truong, Madeline Earp, Laura W. Reed, Adrian Shahbaz, Ashley Greco-Stoner (eds.)

Washington, DC; New York: Freedom House (2013), 881 pp.

"Freedom House has conducted a comprehensive study of internet freedom in 60 countries around the world. This report is the fourth in a series and focuses on developments that occurred between May 2012 and April 2013. The previous edition, covering 47 countries, was published in September 2012. 'Fre ... more

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The Arab World Online: Trends in Internet Usage in the Arab Region

Fadi Salem, Sara Alshaer

Dubai: Dubai School of Government (DSG), Governance and Innovation Program;bayt.com (2013), 23 pp.

"With more than 125 million individuals using the Internet in the Arab region, and more than 53 million actively using social networking technologies, the DSG Governance and Innovation Program in partnership with Bayt.com conducted a regional survey to examine internet usage trends in the Arab regio ... more

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The Global Social Network Landscape: A Country-By-Country Guide to Social Network Usage

Mitchel Winkels

eMarketer (2013), 40 pp.

"Though Facebook’s near-ubiquitous lead might indicate that the global social network landscape is simplifying, it quickly becomes clear this is not the case. This report aims to help marketers assess the social network landscape in 27 countries by briefly examining four key factors: top social ne ... more

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Transitional Justice: A Handbook for Journalists, Citizens and Activists

London; The Hague; Washington, DC: Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) (2013), 32 pp.

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Youth in Iran: A Story Half Told. Values, Priorities and Perspectives of Iranian Youth

Klara Debeljak

Intermedia (2013), 32 pp.

"The purpose of this report is to contribute to a deeper understanding of Iranian youth as a whole, rather than focus on one particular segment. Specifically, this report aims to address the following questions: 1) What are the key values that underlie the attitudes and behaviour of Iranian youth an ... more

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Use with Care: A Reporter's Glossary of Loaded Language in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Vienna: International Press Institute (IPI) (2013), 59 pp.

"This is a guide of sorts, presenting a collection of terms used on both sides, which in some contexts may be regarded as loaded or biased, or whose meaning is often misunderstood, or which can be misleading. These are words the use of which is liable to give away the reporter’s communal identity ... more

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Mapping Digital Media: Egypt

Rasha A. Abdulla

London: Open Society Foundations, Open Society Media Program (2013), 78 pp.

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Global Information Society Watch 2013: Women's Rights, Gender and ICTs

Association for Progressive Communications (APC);Hivos (2013), 240 pp.

"GISWatch 2013 shows that gains in women’s rights made online are not always certain or stable. While access to the internet for women has increased their participation in the social, economic and governance spheres, there is another side to these opportunities: online harassment, cyberstalking, a ... more

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Wir sind die Medien: Internet und politischer Wandel in Iran

Marcus Michaelsen

Bielefeld: transcript (2013), 350 pp.

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Art and Networks: The National Film School of Denmark's "Middle East Project"

Mette Hjort

In: The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Mette Hjort (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), pp. 125-150

"Seen from the perspective of film directors in the Middle East, the NFSD‘s Middle East Project makes a clear contribution in a number of areas: focusing on documentary flimmaking, it provides opportunities for flimmakers from the region to engage with realities that are important to them, but per ... more

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Libya Media Assessment: One Year Later. An Assessment of the Media Landscape and Consumption Patterns

Clara Tardy

Altai Consulting;Foreign & Commonwealth Office (2013), 102 pp.

"The overall objective of the research is to provide the Foreign & Commonwealth Office and its Libyan Government counterparts with an updated assessment of the Libyan media landscape that measures consumption habits, perceptions of trust towards certain outlets, and attitudes towards government invo ... more

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Israel - nah im Osten

Itay Lotem, Judith Seitz

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), Lizenzausg. (2013), 159 pp.

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Image Politics in the Middle East: The Role of the Visual in Political Struggle

Lina Khatib

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp.

"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i ... more

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Attacks on the Press: Journalism on the World's Front Lines

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (ed.)

Wiley;Bloomberg Press (2013), 304 pp.

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Mitigating Media Incitement to Violence in Iraq: A Locally Driven Approach

Maureen Taylor, Theo Dolan

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2013), 17 pp.

"The Iraqi media sector is polarized, with news content often representing political positions. In a postconflict environment such as Iraq, this polarized content can become inflammatory, potentially inciting violence and diminishing the chances for Iraq to move forward in its transition to a peacef ... more

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Jihadism: Online Discourses and Representations

Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.)

Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna University Press (2013), 255 pp.

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The Education of the Filmmaker in Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas

Mette Hjort (ed.)

New York et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), xiv, 302 pp.

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Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East: Rhetoric of the Image

Christiane J. Gruber, Sune Haugbolle (eds.)

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2013), xxvii, 343 pp.

"The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic subjectivities, the distribution of power, and the formation of identity and belonging. Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East ... more