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Constraints on Journalistic Practices in the Arab World Post–Arab Spring and Post-Covid-19
In: The Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South
London; New York: Routledge (2023), pp. 179-186
"Over a decade ago, the 2011 Arab Spring uprisings erupted in six Arab countries. They were accompanied, initially, by high hopes for democratic transformation and reform (Lynch, 2012). These hopes and aspirations also included widening the margin of freedom of expression in general and press freedo
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Counter Digital Revolution, Disinformation, and Journalistic Constraints in Arab Media
Journalism Research, volume 5, issue 3 (2022), pp. 234-252
"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes
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Shifting Cyberfeminism and Gendered Activisms in the Gulf: A Saudi Feminist Spring?
Journal of Arabian Studies, volume 12, issue 1 (2022), pp. 1-23
"This qualitative feminist study sheds light on women’s shifting identities, struggles, and resistances in the most conservative Gulf state, Saudi Arabia, unpacking the shifting socio-political and mediated environments in this country and their impact on gendered activism. Through conducting in-d
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Taming the People: Comparing Protests and Populism in Arab and American Politics
Frontiers in Communication, volume 6, issue 780317 (2022), 11 pp.
"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes
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A battle of two pandemics: Coronavirus and digital authoritarianism in the Arab World
In: Cyber War & Cyber Peace: Digital Conflict in the Middle East
London; New York: Tauris (2022), pp. 161-178
"This chapter explores the current wave of coronavirus-related digital crackdowns in the Arab region, which are unfolding in multiple forms, and analyzes its causes, contexts, and consequences. It explores why and how the stifling of media freedom and freedom of speech online in the Arab region has
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Counter digital revolution, disinformation, and journalistic constraints in Arab media
Journalism Research/Journalistik, volume 3, issue 5 (2022), pp. 234-252
"The spread of social media platforms ushered the beginning of an unprecedented communication era, which is borderless, immediate, widespread, and defies restrictions and censorship. Digital technology aided the spread of democracy and freedom of expression and helped to overthrow some Arab regimes
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Egyptian Women Journalists’ Feminist Voices in a Shifting Digitalized Journalistic Field
Digital Journalism, volume 10, issue 7 (2022), pp. 1238-1256
"This qualitative feminist study analyzes Egyptian women journalists’ articulations of their shifting roles, struggles, and resistances to the political, legal, socio-economic, and professional challenges in a shifting, hybrid, and digitalized journalistic field. Through analyzing 16 interviews wi
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Arab Resistance in the diaspora: Comparing the Saudi dissident and the Egyptian whistleblower
Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, volume 13, issue 1 (2020), pp. 31-49
"While much research on Arab and Muslim diasporas in the West focuses on the War(s) on Terror, in this article, we explore how two particular diasporic groups, Egyptian and Saudi activists, work to shape public perceptions of the authoritarian regimes in their countries of origin. Contextualizing th
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The Online Public Sphere in the Gulf: Contestation, Creativity, and Change
Review of Middle East Studies, volume 53, issue 2 (2019), pp. 190-199
"This introductory essay sets the stage for this special issue, which explores how online media has changed the Arabian Gulf region's politics, economies, and social norms. It provides an overview of the most important themes, arguments, and findings tackled in the four essays in this issue, as well
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Gendering the Arab Spring: Arab women journalists/activists, "cyberfeminism," and the sociopolitical revolution
Gendering the "Arab Spring:" Arab Women Journalists/Activists, "Cyberfeminism," and the Socio-Political Revolution
"Any observer of the so-called Arab Spring, the massive wave of political revolt that has been sweeping the Arab region since 2011, could not help but notice the visible role that women have been playing in it. Hundreds of thousands of Arab women throughout the region, including in some of the most
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Cyberactivism in the Tunisian and Egyptian Revolutions: Potentials, Limitations, Overlaps and Divergences
Journal of African Media Studies, volume 5, issue 1 (2013), pp. 69-86
"This article discusses the role of ‘cyberactivism’ or the role played by new media in paving the way for political transformation, in both the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions of 2011. It starts with a discussion of the potentials of cyberactivism in both of these revolutions, especially how t
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Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement, and Citizen Journalism
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2013), viii, 241 pp.
"This book sheds light on the growing phenomenon of cyberactivism in the Arab world, with a special focus on the Egyptian political blogosphere and its role in paving the way to democratization and socio-political change in Egypt, which culminated in Egypt's historical popular revolution." (Publishe
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Online citizen journalism and political transformation in the Tunisian and Egyptian revolutions: A critical analysis
In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women
Feminist Media Studies, volume 13, issue 5 (2013), pp. 881-890
"This feminist, qualitative study sheds light on how young Arab women used cyberactivism to participate in the wave of political and social transformations widely known as the Arab Spring. It argues that these activists leveraged social media to enact new forms of leadership, agency, and empowerment
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Political Activism 2.0: Comparing the Role of Social Media in Egypt’s “Facebook Revolution” and Iran’s “Twitter Uprising”
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
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The Transformative Egyptian Media Landscape: Changes, Challenges and Comparative Perspectives
International Journal of Communication, volume 5 (2011), pp. 1159-1177
"This article analyzes the transformative Egyptian media landscape that shaped and reflected the equally transformative political landscape that led to Egypt’s historical revolution. It provides an overview of Egyptian media and discusses how that eclectic scene exhibited many paradoxes. It analyz
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Cyberactivism in the Egyptian Revolution: How Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism Tilted the Balance
Arab Media & Society, issue 13 (2011), 37 pp.
"The Egyptian revolution was characterized by the instrumental use of social media, especially Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and text messaging by protesters, to bring about political change and democratic transformation. This article focuses on how these new types of media acted as effective tools fo
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Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace
New York: Palgrave Macmillan (2009), viii, 269 pp.
