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"After the events of 9/11, media representations of Muslims in the West—never known for their accuracy—became even more stereotypically negative. Few of us realize, however, the profusion of similar sentiments that existed within Arab Muslim media outlets ten or even fifteen years earlier. Lila ... more

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People, Land and Water: Participatory Development Communication for Natural Resource Management
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Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp.

"This book presents conceptual and methodological issues related to the use of communication in order to facilitate participation among stakeholders in natural resource management (NRM) initiatives. It also presents a collection of chapters that focus on participatory development communication and N ... RM, particularly in Asia and Africa. There are many approaches and practices in development communication, and most of them have been implemented in the field of environment and natural resource management. But, even when considering participatory approaches in NRM, communication is often limited to information dissemination activities that mainly use printed materials, radio programmes and educational videos to send messages, explain technologies or illustrate activities. These approaches, with their strengths and weaknesses, have been well documented. Participatory development communication takes another perspective. This form of communication facilitates participation in a development initiative identified and selected by a community, with or without the external assistance of other stakeholders. The terminology has been used in the past by a number of scholars to stress the participatory approach of communication in contrast with its more traditional diffusion approach. Others refer to similar approaches as participatory communication for development, participatory communication or communication for social change. In this publication, participatory development communication is considered to be a planned activity that is based on participatory processes and on media and interpersonal communication. This communication facilitates dialogue among different stakeholders around a common development problem or goal. The objective is to develop and implement a set of activities that contribute to a solution to the problem or the realization of a goal, and which support and accompany this initiative. This kind of communication requires moving from a focus on information and persuasion to facilitating exchanges between different stakeholders to address a common problem, to develop a concrete initiative for experimenting with possible solutions, and to identify the partnerships, knowledge and materials needed to support these solutions." (Preface) more

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Religion, Media, and the Public Sphere

Birgit Meyer, Annelies Moors (eds.)

Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press (2006), 325 pp.

"Increasingly, Pentecostal, Buddhist, Muslim, Jewish, Hindu, and indigenous movements all over the world make use of a great variety of modern mass media, both print and electronic. Through religious booklets, radio broadcasts, cassette tapes, television talk-shows, soap operas, and documentary film ... more

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Media Sustainability Index 2005: The Development of Sustainable Independent Media in the Middle East and North Africa

Leon Morse (ed.)

Washington, DC: IREX (2006), xix, 231 pp.

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Restructuring Radio Broadcasting in Arab Countries: Palestine, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan & Egypt

Olfa Lamloum

Paris: Panos Paris (2006), 54 pp.

"The reorganisation of radio broadcasting in the five Arab countries we have looked at is a slow, unequal, up-and-down and unfinished process. It is unfinished in that some states (Egypt and Syria), still have not published the conditions for awarding broadcasting licenses, even though some independ ... ent stations have received authorisation. The beneficiary stations thus have no real legal status, but are private businesses broadcasting music, and refraining from broadcasting news. The stations seem to be of most benefit to businessmen close to the authorities, and are more a part of the process of State privatisation than media democratisation. There is a general lack of transparency, and very little information is available about these radio stations. Journalists know little about the shareholders, working conditions in the stations and how they are organised. The legal vacuum will no doubt eventually be filled in these two countries. But, for the time being, radio broadcasting in Egypt and Syria remains totally under the control of the authorities. Lebanon is a special case. By allowing radio and television stations to be privately owned, Lebanon has essentially brought an existing state of affairs within the law, since these independent stations did not wait for the 1996 law to be passed before going on the air. Nevertheless, the various attempts to prevent religious interests from controlling the media have so far failed, and the political stations are a direct mirror of the country’s religious polarities. Every political/religious party has its own radio station (and television channel), which it uses to support its political choices. And the only non-religious station, Sawt Al-Shab, is close to the Lebanese Communist Party. Despite their vulnerability, the Palestinian and Jordanian experiments are without doubt the most promising. The legal framework is restrictive, in these two countries, but the privatelyowned stations are pushing back the boundaries of news broadcasting, are helping to render the media more autonomous, and introducing a relative degree of democracy in the field of information. But these experiments remain dependent on the unstable political context and resulting legal restrictions. The new legislation is more favourable to entertainment stations and benefits businessmen close to the authorities, leaving little space for civil society radio projects to develop." (Conclusion, page 42) more

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A Developing Connection: Bridging the Policy Gap Between the Information Society and Sustainable Development

Terry Willard, Maja Andjelkovic (eds.)

Winnipeg, Manitoba: International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD) (2005), 210 pp.

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The State of the Arab Media 2004

Ibrahim Fadel (ed.)

Youssef Fadel (introd.)

London: Arab Press Freedom Watch (APFW) (2005), 260 pp.

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Le droit d'informer: Le rôle des médias dans le développement économique

Banque Mondiale

Bruxelles: De Boeck & Larcier (2005), 406 pp.

"Une presse indépendante est essentielle pour un développement économique équitable : elle contribue à donner la parole aux personnes pauvres et privées de droit. Des médias autonomes participent également à l’édification de bases solides pour une société libre et transparente. Les aut ... more

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Global Entertainment Media: Content, Audiences, Issues

Anne Cooper-Chen (ed.)

Mahwah, New Jers.: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2005), xi, 267 pp.

"In this volume, experts discuss the content, audiences, and cultural and legal aspects of their respective countries, all of which are major TV markets. The country-specific chapters draw on the individual insights, expertise, and currency of 10 resident authors. Contributions represent every hemis ... more

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Der Islam in der Gegenwart

Werner Ende, Udo Steinbach (eds.)

Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb), 5., aktual. und erw. Aufl., Lizenzausg. (2005), 1064 pp.

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Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt

Lila Abu-Lughod

Chicago: University of Chicago Press (2005), xvii, 319 pp.

"Dramas of Nationhood identifies a fantastic cultural form that binds together the Egyptian nation—television serials. These melodramatic programs—like soap operas but more closely tied to political and social issues than their Western counterparts—have been shown on television in Egypt for mo ... more

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Media and Democracy: The KAF Democracy Report 2005

Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS) (ed.)

Bonn: Bouvier (2005), 323 pp.

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False Freedom: Online Censorship in the Middle East and North Africa

Elijah Zarwan et al.

New York: Human Rights Watch (2005), 144 pp.

"This report examines Internet trends and policies in the Middle East and North Africa region as they affect freedom of expression, focusing particularly on Egypt, Iran, Syria, and Tunisia. Human Rights Watch selected these four countries for closer scrutiny as much for their differences as for thei ... more

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Deep Impact: An Investigation of the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Teacher Education in the Global South

Jenny Leach

Atef Ahmed; Shumi Makalima; Tom Power (contrib.)

London: Department for International Development (DFID) (2005), 158 pp.

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Télévisions arabes sur orbite: Un système médiatique en mutation (1960-2004)

Tourya Guaaybess

Paris: CNRS (2005), 264 pp.

"Alors que les pays du monde arabe subissent les effets d’une instabilité politique, l’intérêt ou les inquiétudes qu’ils suscitent en Occident ont permis au grand public de découvrir les chaînes satellitaires de la région, dont la plus connue est sans nul doute Al-Jazeera. Mais quel est ... more

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Africa: The Impact of Mobile Phones. Moving the Debate Forward

Arun Sarin (ed.)

Vodaphone (2005), 68 pp.

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