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Essay: International Middle East Media Challenge Cultural Imperialism Thesis

Ralph D. Berenger
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 89-109
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People's Power: The Arab World in Revolt

Perspectives (Heinrich Böll Stiftung), issue 2 (2011), 262 pp.
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Use of Social Media in the United Arab Emirates: An Initial Study

Badreya Nasser Abdullah Al Jenaibi
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 3-27
"The most popular types of social media in the UAE are generally the same as those used in other regions across the Middle East, North Africa, and beyond. These include social networks (Facebook), video-sharing sites (YouTube), and micro-blogging sites (Twitter), among others. UAE respondents were b ... more
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Global Information Society Watch 2011: Internet Rights and Democratisation. Focus on Freedom of Expression and Association Online

Karen Banks (ed.)
Association for Progressive Communications (APC); Hivos (2011), 273 pp.
"In the year of the Arab uprisings Global Information Society Watch 2011 investigates how governments and internet and mobile phone companies are trying to restrict freedom online – and how citizens are responding to this using the very same technologies. Everyone is familiar with the stories of E ... more
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Online Security in the Middle East and North Africa: A Survey of Perceptions, Knowledge, and Practice

Robert Faris, Hal Roberts, Rebekah Heacock, Ethan Zuckerman, Urs Gasser
Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (2011), 15 pp.
"In this report we describe the results of a survey of 98 bloggers in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) carried out in May 2011 in order to study bloggers’ perceptions of online risk and the actions they take to address digital communications security, including both Internet and cell phone ... more
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The Trans-Saharan Book Trade: Manuscript Culture, Arabic Literacy and Intellectual History in Muslim Africa

Graziano Krätli, Ghislaine Lydon (eds.)
Leiden; Boston: Brill (2011), xii, 422 pp.
"As the manuscript treasures in the libraries of Timbuktu and throughout the northwestern quarter of Africa become known, many questions are raised. How did a manuscript culture flourish in the Sahara and in Muslim Africa more generally? Under what conditions did African intellectuals thrive, and ho ... more
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Political and Media Transitions in Egypt: A Snapshot of Media Policy and Regulatory Environment

Toby Mendel
Internews (2011), 23 pp.
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Attacks on the Press in 2010: A Worldwide Survey

Bill Sweeney (ed.)
New York: Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) (2011), 431 pp.
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The New Arab Journalist: Mission and Identity in a Time of Turmoil
Deep Insights

Lawrence Pintak
London; New York: Tauris (2011), xii, 287 pp.
"Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, Lawrence Pintak examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in ... more
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After Egypt: The Limits and Promise of Online Challenges to the Authoritarian Arab State

Marc Lynch
Perspectives on Politics, volume 9, issue 2 (2011), pp. 301-310
"The uprisings which swept across the Arab world beginning in December 2010 pose a serious challenge to many of the core findings of the political science literature focused on the durability of the authoritarian Middle Eastern state. The impact of social media on contentious politics represents one ... more
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The Changing Representation of the Arab Woman in Middle East Advertising and Media

Badreya Nasser Abdullah Al Jenaibi
Global Media Journal - Arabian Edition, volume 1, issue 2 (2011), pp. 67-88
"As the United Arab Emirates continues to emerge as a cosmopolitan tourist destination, the marketing of Arab images to create metaphors of hospitality and openness, even sex appeal, will continue to grow. Images of Arab women are central to the branding of the UAE in its desired role as a globally ... more
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The Global EBook Market: Current Conditions and Future Projections

Rüdiger Wischenbart
[author] (2011), 39 pp.
"In Europe, Germany and France are ahead in digitally embracing trade books, notably !ction, yet are clearly behind the US and UK. But countries as diverse as Austria, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, and Sweden have recently seen the implementation of an ebook distribution infrastructure, and at lea ... more
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Arabic Books

Nabil Dajani
In: Arab Media: Globalization and Emerging Media Industries
Noha Mellor, Muhammad Ayish, Nabil Dajani, Khalil Rinnawi (eds.)
Cambridge; Maldon, Mass.: Polity Press (2011), pp. 29-44
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Questioning the Al-Jazeera Effect: Analysis of Al-Qaeda’s Media Strategy and its Relationship with Al-Jazeera

Rasha El-Ibiary
Global Media and Communication, volume 7, issue 3 (2011), pp. 199-204
"Even Al-Jazeera, the first all-news channel widely considered independent, is primarily a tool in the Qatari government's hands to consolidate its existence, and fight its media wars with Saudi Arabia, provoking anger in the Arab and Western world. Al-Quaeda's relationship to Al-Jazeera, thus, cann ... more
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International Perspectives on Youth Media: Cultures of Production and Education

JoEllen Fisherkeller (ed.)
New York: Peter Lang (2011), vi, 399 pp.
"This book documents and analyzes transnational research on youth media production and distribution projects both in and out of school. With comprehensive theoretical analyses, notes, and bibliographies, each chapter includes a case study, illuminating the variety and diversity of youth media projec ... more
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Journalists Without Bounds

Beirut: Journalists@journalism.com; Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) (2011), 40, 39 pp.
"This study is the first experimental attempt to identify the family, legal and professional conditions of journalists in Lebanon. But the desire to undertake a comprehensive survey of all journalists working in the media in all Lebanese regions has not been realized for several reasons; the most im ... more
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News audiences beware! Insights from Darfur

Bella Mody
Media Development (WACC), volume 58, issue 4 (2011), pp. 32-36
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Islamic Fundamentalism in Arab Television: Islamism and Salafism in Competition

Jakob Skoovgard-Petersen
In: Fundamentalism in the Modern World. Vol. 2: Fundamentalism and Communication: Culture, Media and the Public Sphere
Ulrika Mårtensson, Jennifer Bailey, Priscilla Ringrose, Asbjorn Dyrendal (eds.)
London; New York: Tauris (2011), pp. 264-291
"Within less than 20 years, the number of Arabic-language satellite channels has risen from zero to more than 500, including channels financed by the US, Russia, China, the UK and France. Some 50 of these channels label themselves as Islamic (and a handful are Christian), but Islamic programming is ... more
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Demokratie im Islam: Der Kampf für Toleranz und Freiheit in der arabischen Welt

Gudrun Krämer
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb) (2011), 218 pp.
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Oase der Freiheit: Sechs Journalistinnen werden zur Stimme der Frauen im Jemen

Jennifer Steil
München: Blanvalet (2011), 510 pp.
"Die junge amerikanische Journalistin Jennifer Steil wagt einen mutigen Schritt und wird für ein Jahr Redakteurin des „Jemen Observer”. Wie erwartet findet sie Fremdheit, Engstirnigkeit, auch Hass. Als Frau gelingt ihr aber auch ein Blick in jene Welt, die offiziellen Berichterstattern verborge ... more