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Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes
Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Blackwell (2025), xxiii, 502 pp.
"In 'Media Compass: A Companion to International Media Landscapes', an international team of prominent scholars examines both long-term media systems and fluctuating trends in media usage around the world. Integrating country-specific summaries and cross-cutting studies of geopolitical regions, this
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Impact of U.S. Government Funding Suspension on Independent Media in Lebanon
Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation (2025), 9 pp.
"The January 23, 2025 suspension of U.S. government funding has placed Lebanon’s independent media outlets under significant strain. Although some organizations were unaffected, many face heightened financial uncertainty, reduced operational capacity, and the potential for layoffs. The Samir Kassi
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Repair work, resistance and the invisible data labour of Lebanon’s digital humanitarian infrastructures
Big Data & Society, issue January–March (2025), 13 pp.
"This article draws upon a multi-sited ethnography of everyday labour in Lebanon’s digital cash assistance for Syrian refugees. The datafication of humanitarian infrastructures generates technological breakdown, gaps in data and incredibly strict and cumbersome rules. In response to impediments re
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Satellite Ministries: The Rise of Christian Television in the Middle East
Deep Insights
New York: Oxford University Press (2025), xxx, 337 pp.
"Through extensive fieldwork and archival research, Febe Armanios explores how Western evangelicals and indigenous Christians harnessed terrestrial and satellite technologies to promote Christian television in the Middle East. The sixteen channels analyzed in this study fall into three main categori
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Media and Democracy in the Middle East
London; New York: Routledge (2024), 176 pp.
"Since the outburst and spread of what was known as the ‘Arab Uprisings’ in 2010, the political and media landscapes in the Middle East region have dramatically changed. The initial hope for democratic change and governance quality improvements has faded, as several regimes in the Middle East ha
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Are We Making a Difference? Global and Local Efforts to Assess Peacebuilding Effectiveness
Deep Insights
Lanham et al.: Rowman & Littlefield (2024), xxvii, 320 pp.
"Sections of the book engage in critical reflection on what peacebuilding effectiveness is and who gets to decide, provide practical examples and case studies of the successes and failures of assessing peacebuilding work, and support innovative strategies and tools to move the field forward. Chapter
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Perception and consumption of hate speech in the Lebanese media
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2024), 25 pp.
News Distortion in Times of Crises: Covid-19 Case in the Arab Media
International Journal of Communication, volume 18 (2024), pp. 5222-5246
"This article investigates news distortion within the Arab media ecosystem, as manifested on Arab media Facebook pages and perceived by Arab journalists during the COVID-19 pandemic. A textual analysis was conducted on 6 news Facebook pages affiliated with major local media channels in 6 Arab countr
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Infrastructural platform violence: How women and queer journalists and activists in Lebanon experience abuse on WhatsApp
New Media & Society (2024), 20 pp.
"Technology-facilitated abuse and violence disproportionately affect marginalized people. While researchers have explored this issue in the context of public-facing social media platforms, less is known about how it plays out on more private messaging apps. This study draws on in-depth interviews wi
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Religious Freedom and Populism: The Appropriation of a Human Right and How to Counter it
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), 263 pp.
Challenges and Perspectives of Hate Speech Research
Deep Insights
Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin, Institute for Media and Communication Studies (2023), 482 pp.
"This book is the result of a conference that could not take place. It is a collection of 26 texts that address and discuss the latest developments in international hate speech research from a wide range of disciplinary perspectives. This includes case studies from Brazil, Lebanon, Poland, Nigeria,
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Reimagining Civil Society Collaborations in Development: Starting from the South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), xv, 348 pp.
"At a time when uneven power dynamics are high on development actors' agenda, this book will be an important contribution to researchers and practitioners working on innovation in development and civil society. While there is much discussion of localization, decolonization and 'shifting power' in ci
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Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East Since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon
London: Tauris (2023), vii, 198 pp.
"This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving practices of digital activism across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2022. It examines the shifting narrative around digital activism in the region, from the
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Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), ix, 228 pp.
"Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in the
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WhatsApp 360: A Look into the WhatsApp News Ecosystem in Lebanon Focusing on Misinformation and Hate Speech
Metn: Samir Kassir Foundation (2023), 39 pp.
"1. Expansive reach and influence of WhatsApp groups: The study findings indicate that WhatsApp groups have a remarkably wide reach, potentially connecting with three quarters of WhatsApp users in Lebanon. These groups are part of larger networks, which enhances the dissemination of content. Moreove
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