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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”

Mohammed El-Nawawy, Sahar Khamis

CyberOrient, volume 6, issue 1 (2012), pp. 8-33

"Social media, particularly blogging, Facebook and Twitter, have played a key role in instigating, accelerating and even organizing some of the uprisings and revolutions that have been taking place all over the Middle East. This role has been effective in galvanizing the youth and empowering them in ... more

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Revolution 2.0? Die Bedeutung digitaler Medien für politische Mobilisierung und Protest

Jan Hanrat, Claus Leggewie

In: Globale Trends 2013: Frieden, Entwicklung, Umwelt

Stiftung Entwicklung und Frieden (ed.)

Frankfurt am Main: Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag (2012), pp. 157-172

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New Media and Conflict After the Arab Spring

Sean Aday, Henry Farrell, Marc Lynch, John Sides, Deen Freelon

Washington, DC: United States Institute of Peace (USIP) (2012), 24 pp.

"An extraordinary wave of popular protest swept the Arab world in 2011. Massive popular mobilization brought down long-ruling leaders in Tunisia and Egypt, helped spark bloody struggles in Bahrain, Libya, Syria, and Yemen, and fundamentally reshaped the nature of politics in the region. New media - ... more

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Religious Diaspora and Information Communications Technology: The Impact of Globalization on Communal Relations in Egypt

Fiona McCallum

In: The New Arab Media: Technology, Image and Perception

Mahjoob Zweiri; Emma C. Murphy (eds.)

Reading: Ithaca Press (2012), pp. 81-101

"The age-old Coptic balancing act of proving that they are patriotic Egyptians while retaining a strong attachment to their religious and cultural identity has become harder in the globalization era, when specific individuals and groups based on another continent can affect the domestic political en ... more

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Landraub: Reisen ins Reich des neuen Kolonialismus

Stefano Liberti

Alexander Knaak (transl.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2012), 254 pp.

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Country Case Study: Syria. Support to Media Where Media Freedoms and Rights Are Constrained

Maha Taki

London: BBC Media Action (2012), 20 pp.

Examining the media of one of the world’s most censored societies, this report finds that the Syrian media is under increasing threat but identifies growing use of new media to circumvent old restrictions.

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Global and Local Televangelism

Pradip Thomas, Philip Lee (eds.)

Basingstoke et al.: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), xiv, 250 pp.

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Blogistan: Politik und Internet im Iran

Annabelle Sreberny, Gholam Khiabany

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); (2012), 285 pp.

"Die Protestwelle nach der umstrittenen Präsidentschaftswahl im Iran vom Juni 2009 lenkte die Aufmerksamkeit der Weltöffentlichkeit auf die lebendige Internetkultur der Islamischen Republik. Das Internet, heißt es, befördert den gesellschaftlichen Wandel in Ländern wie dem Iran, doch inwiefern ... more

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Al Jazeera English: Global News in a Changing World

Philip Seib (ed.)

New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2012), 204 pp.

"For Al Jazeera English (AJE), the Arab revolutions of 2011 offered an opportunity that news executives dream about. It was the biggest story of the century, it was happening on home territory, and the channel had the expertise and the reportorial staff on the ground at levels its competitors could ... more

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Iraq’s Information Crimes Law: Badly Written Provisions and Draconian Punishments Violate Due Process and Free Speech

New York et al.: Human Rights Watch (2012), 15 pp.

"Iraq’s parliament is in the process of enacting an “Information Crimes Law” to regulate the use of information networks, computers, and other electronic devices and systems. The draft law includes vague provisions that would allow Iraqi authorities to deter legitimate criticisms of or peacefu ... more

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Media in Turmoil: An Assessment of the Media Sector in Yemen

Copenhagen: International Media Support (IMS) (2012), 13 pp.

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Digital Media in the Arab World: One Year After the Revolutions

Jeffrey Ghannam

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2012), 31 pp.

"Following the revolutions, the battle for the Arab blogosphere has turned from being a competition over accessing the Internet and circumventing government controls to a cyberwar for the predominant narrative through Facebook, Twitter, and traditional media [...] Social media is reinvigorating trad ... more

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Is the Phone Mightier than the Sword? Cell Phones and Insurgent Violence in Iraq

Jacob N. Shapiro, Nils B. Weidmann

International Organization, volume 69, issue 2 (2012), pp. 247-274

"Does improved communication as provided by modern cell phone technology affect the production of violence during insurgencies? Theoretical predictions are ambiguous, introducing cell phones can enhance insurgent communications but can also make it easier for the population to share information with ... more

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Tunisian Media in Transition

Fatima El-Issawi

Washington, DC: Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (2012), 27 pp.

"The Tunisian media is still a venue for manipulation, intimidation, and bias. Media outlets are becoming the main stage for the fierce political and ideological battle between the country’s opposing camps: conservative Islamists and secular elitists. Ennahda, the Islamist winner of the first free ... more

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New Approaches to the Analysis of Jihadism: Online and Offline

Rüdiger Lohlker (ed.)

Göttingen: V & R Unipress, Vienna University Press (2012), 224 pp.

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Freedom of the Press 2012: Breakthroughs and Pushback in the Middle East. Selected Data from Freedom House's Annual Press Freedom Index

Karin Deutsch Karlekar, Jennifer Dunham

Washington, DC: Freedom House (2012), 40 pp.

"The improvements in the Arab world were the most significant findings of Freedom of the Press 2012: A Global Survey of Media Independence, the latest edition of an annual index published by Freedom House since 1980. The gains came on the heels of eight consecutive years of decline in the global ave ... more

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Religious Broadcasting in the Middle East

Khaled Hroub (ed.)

New York: Columbia University Press (2012), xvi, 348 pp.

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New Projects Submitted to the IPDC. Part 4: Arab Region and Europe

International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC)

Paris: UNESCO (2012), 85 pp.

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Implementation Reports on Projects Approved and Financed in 2007-2009. Part 1: Africa, Arab Region, Europe

Paris: UNESCO, International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC) (2012), 161 pp.

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Tunisia: From Revolutions to Institutions

Zack Brisson, Kate Krontiris

Washington, DC: infoDev Information for Development Program (2012), 121 pp.

"The study “Tunisia: from revolutions to institutions” stresses how technology-oriented small and medium-sized companies (SMEs) can generate economic expansion and job growth, including in the economically-isolated interior provinces. Tunisian ICT companies are likely to find an attractive marke ... more