Women and media in the Middle East: power through self-expression
London; New York:
Tauris
(2004), viii, 248 pp., bibliogr. p.228-240, index
"Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender boundaries have been erected or crossed." (Publisher)
Contents
1 Women-Media Interaction in the Middle East: An Introductory Overview / Naomi Sakr, 1
2 The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere / Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny, 15
3 ‘Till I Become a Minister’: Women’s Rights and Women’s Journalism in pre-1952 Egypt / Sonia Dabbous, 39
4 Maghrebi Women Film-makers and the Challenge of Modernity: Breaking Women’s Silence / Zahia Smail Salhi, 53
5 The Orient and its Others: Women as Tools of Nationalism in Egyptian Political Cinema / Lina Khatib, 72
6 Multiple Literacies, Multiple Identities: Egyptian Rural Women’s Readings of Televised Literacy Campaigns / Sahar Khamis, 89
7 Echoes: Gender and Media Challenges in Palestine / Benaz Somiry-Batrawi, 109
8 Engagement in the Public Sphere: Women and the Press in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni and Mary Ann Tétreault, 120
9 Blessings and Curses: Women and the Internet Revolution in the Arab World / Deborah L. Wheeler, 138
10 Power, NGOs and Lebanese Television: a Case Study of Al-Manar TV and the Hezbollah Women’s Association / Victoria Firmo-Fontan, 162
11 Straddling Cultures: Arab Women Journalists at Home and Abroad / Magda Abu-Fadil, 180
2 The Women’s Press in Contemporary Iran: Engendering the Public Sphere / Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny, 15
3 ‘Till I Become a Minister’: Women’s Rights and Women’s Journalism in pre-1952 Egypt / Sonia Dabbous, 39
4 Maghrebi Women Film-makers and the Challenge of Modernity: Breaking Women’s Silence / Zahia Smail Salhi, 53
5 The Orient and its Others: Women as Tools of Nationalism in Egyptian Political Cinema / Lina Khatib, 72
6 Multiple Literacies, Multiple Identities: Egyptian Rural Women’s Readings of Televised Literacy Campaigns / Sahar Khamis, 89
7 Echoes: Gender and Media Challenges in Palestine / Benaz Somiry-Batrawi, 109
8 Engagement in the Public Sphere: Women and the Press in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni and Mary Ann Tétreault, 120
9 Blessings and Curses: Women and the Internet Revolution in the Arab World / Deborah L. Wheeler, 138
10 Power, NGOs and Lebanese Television: a Case Study of Al-Manar TV and the Hezbollah Women’s Association / Victoria Firmo-Fontan, 162
11 Straddling Cultures: Arab Women Journalists at Home and Abroad / Magda Abu-Fadil, 180
