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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2019), 104 pp.
"This 2019 report pays special attention to social media and social media influencers even as it focuses heavily on news media. As always, we look at media use by platform and content while also honing in both generally and in detail on the use of the internet. As a member of the World Internet Proj
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Five-Year Retrospection
Quick Overview
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2018), 79 pp.
"The retrospection, which covers Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates, includes the following highlights: Internet penetration has increased in every country since 2013. The biggest increase occurred in Lebanon – from 58 percent to 91 percent in the la
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey
Top Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2017), 139 pp.
"Compared to five years ago, internet penetration rose in all six countries surveyed and most dramatically in Jordan, Lebanon, and Tunisia. Smartphone ownership tracks closely with internet use in the six surveyed countries. Nearly all nationals in Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE own a sma
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Religious TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 162-169
"Religious channels in the MENA region are approximately 10 percent of all free-to-air (FTA) channels from 2012 to 2014. This is a relatively high share compared to many markets outside the region, such as the U.K., where religious channels only represent one percent of FTA channels. Religious chann
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Ramadan TV
In: Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), pp. 152-161
"Television executives and producers are busy for 11 months of the year, preparing for the do-or-die one-month television season: Ramadan. This ninth month in the Islamic lunar calendar is at once a period of religious devotion and a time for the television industry’s best productions. It is a tim
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Media Industries in the Middle East 2016
Top Insights
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Doha Film Institute (2016), 174 pp.
"This report contains the collected, examined, and produced information on the fundamental characteristics of the media and communication industries, whenever possible, in the MENA region as a whole. It typically includes 14 countries from Mauritania on the Atlantic Ocean to Oman on the Arab Gulf. F
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Media Use in the Middle East 2016: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2016), 110 pp.
"It is too often assumed anyone can communicate via the internet or share in the benefits of easily available newspapers and free-to-air television or radio; this is not always true. Lower internet penetration and mobile broadband access in countries like Egypt and Tunisia, for example, stand in sha
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Media Use in the Middle East 2015: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2015), 73 pp.
"Especially notable in the 2015 study is that most people access the internet on their phones rather than by laptop or desktop computers. That’s true in every country in our sample, except Egypt, where an ailing economy has slowed the adoption of new technologies common elsewhere in the region and
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Entertainment Media Use in Qatar: Survey Results
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 15 pp.
"This publication covers attitudes toward, and behavior pertaining to, entertainment media among residents in Qatar [...] These results suggest notable differences among the nationalities living in Qatar with regard to their attitudes, preferences and behaviors related to entertainment media. In man
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Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East: A Six-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar (2014), 122 pp.
"Entertainment Media Use in the Middle East is the result of survey research in six Arab nations involving more than 6,000 face-to-face interviews in nationally representative samples—citizens and expatriates alike—and conducted in Arabic, English and French. The result is a portrait of how peop
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Media Use in the Middle East: An Eight-Nation Survey
Qatar: Northwestern University in Qatar; Harris Interactive (2013), 97 pp.
"In assessing attitudes toward the media, one notable finding was a vote of confidence for improved quality of news media reporting between 2011 and 2013 with a majority of adults agreeing that it has improved in six of the eight countries surveyed. This optimism is also reflected in overall percept
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