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"The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The ... more

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2010-2012, Part I: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2013), 181 pp.

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Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue

Ulla Carlsson, Sherri Hope Culver (eds.)

Göteborg: International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media;Nordicom;UNITWIN Cooperation Programme on Media and Information Literacy and Intercultural Dialogue (2013), 416 pp.

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"A Life-Threatening Career": Attacks on Journalists Under Yemen’s New Government

Belkis Wille

Human Rights Watch (2013), 45 pp.

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Global eBook: A Report on Market Trends and Developments

Rüdiger Wischenbart

Carlo Carrenho; Veronika Licher; Miha Kovac; Vinutha Mallya (contrib.)

O'Reilly, revised and updated ed. (2013), 111 pp.

"The report offers a status on the US and UK markets as well as close ups on ebook markets as they take shape across Europe, Brazil, China, India, Russia, and in the Arab world. Thematic chapters focus on critical policy debates and on key driving forces, notably ebook bestsellers and pricing strate ... more

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World Press Freedom Index 2013

Paris: Reporters Without Borders (2013), 26 pp.

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Fragile States: The Role of Media and Communication

James Deane

London: BBC Media Action (2013), 27 pp.

"This briefing examines how current media trends are affecting state and societal fragility, both positively and negatively, and argues that the role of a free and plural media should be prioritised rather than marginalised in fragile states policy. The paper provides case studies on the role and im ... more

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Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya Framing of the Israel–Palestine Conflict During War and Calm Periods

Mohamad Hamas Elmasry, Alaa El Shamy, Peter Manning, Andrew Mills, Philip J. Auter

International Communication Gazette, volume 75, issue 8 (2013), pp. 750-768

"This framing study compares Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya coverage of the Israel–Palestine conflict during the 2008/2009 Gaza conflict and one year later, during a period of calm. Findings suggest that both networks used framing mechanisms to highlight Palestinian perspectives over Israeli ones and f ... more

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The New Tunisian Legislative Framework: A Focus on Press and Audiovisual Media

Joan Barata Mir

Internews (2012), 15 pp.

This report analyzes the most important trends of two recent major laws aimed at regulating free speech and media issues in Tunisia: Decree 115 of 2011 (Decree 115/2011), on the Press, Printing and Publishing, and Decree 116 of 2011 (Decree 116/2011), on the Freedom of Audiovisual Communication and ... more

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Media Arabic

Elisabeth Kendall

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2nd ed. (2012), viii, 104 pp.

"The ability to access Media Arabic – the language of printed or broadcast news items – has become increasingly important in the light of recent developments in the Middle East. Consequently, the need for a ‘quick-fix’ vocabulary of Media Arabic is greater than ever. Arabic dictionaries are ... more

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Hizbullah’s Image Management Strategy

Lina Khatib

Los Angeles: Figueroa Press (2012), 57 pp.

"The Lebanese paramilitary political party Hizbullah is the leading Islamist group in the world in terms of possessing a sophisticated image management strategy. This strategy is reliant on a number of components, from media outlets and products to public displays to the use of personified politics. ... more

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International Mission to Bahrain Report. Justice Denied in Bahrain: Freedom of Expression and Assembly Curtailed

[no publisher] (2012), 27 pp.

The following report documents the findings of a delegation comprised of representatives from six international rights groups (three members and three partners of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange, IFEX), which carried out a fact-finding mission between 20-30 November, 2011, in order ... more

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Press Freedom in 2012: Middle East Volatility amid Global Decline

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 12 pp.

"Ongoing political turmoil produced uneven conditions for press freedom in the Middle East in 2012, with Tunisia and Libya largely retaining their gains from 2011 even as Egypt slid backward into the Not Free category. The region as a whole experienced a net decline for the year, in keeping with a b ... more

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Arab Women in Arab News: Old Stereotypes and New Media

Amal Al-Malki, David Kaufer, Suguru Ishizaki, Kira Dreher

Doha: Bloomsbury Qatar Foundation Publishing (2012), xxvi, 466 pp.

"There is a vast scholarly literature tracing western stereotypes of Arab women from medieval times to the present. From 1800, the dominant western stereotype of Arab women depicts them as passive and oppressed. Thirty years of social science media research in the west has shown that media images of ... more

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Out of Control: Palestinian News Satire and Government Power in the Age of Social Media

Matt Sienkiewicz

Popular Communication, volume 10, issue 1-2 (2012), pp. 106-118

"This article analyzes the Palestinian sketch comedy show Watan Ala Watar, placing the groundbreaking program in the context of theories of satire, government control, and popular resistance. Detailing the show’s tumultuous relationship with the Palestinian Authority, the article argues that despi ... more

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Algerian National Cinema

Guy Austin

Manchester: Manchester University Press (2012), viii, 198 pp.

"This book, via an analysis of cinema, provides a discussion on some misunderstandings and assumptions about Algeria, which remains to a large extent underrepresented or misrepresented in the UK media. It is about Algerian national cinema and illuminates the ways in which the official mythologising ... more

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Opening Closed Regimes: Civil Society, Information Infrastructure, and Political Islam

Muzammil M. Hussain, Philip N. Howard

In: Digital Media and Political Engagement Worldwide: A Comparative Study

Eva Anduiza Perea; Michael James Jensen; Laia Jorba (eds.)

New York: Cambridge University Press (2012), pp. 200-220

"Ruling elites often try to co-opt civil society groups, and in times of political or military crises they can attempt to control the national information infrastructure. But a defining feature of civil society is independence from the authority of the state, even in countries such as Saudi Arabia a ... more

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Arabische Zeitenwende: Aufstand und Revolution in der arabischen Welt

Asiye Öztürk (ed.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 304 pp.