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The chilling: a global study of online violence against women journalists

Julie Posetti; Nabeelah Shabbir (eds.)

International Center for Journalists (ICFJ); UNESCO (2022), 325 pp.

ISBN 979-8-218-09201-6 CC BY-NC-SA

"Online violence against women journalists is one of the most serious contemporary threats to press freedom internationally. It aids and abets impunity for crimes against journalists, including physical assault and murder. It is designed to silence, humiliate, and discredit. It inflicts very real ps... more

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Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process

Fatima el Issawi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 25 pp.

"The halting progress of the Tunisian media reform reflects the uncertainty and vulnerability of the political reform. As Professor of Communication and Democracy Katrin Voltmer contends, emerging media systems are unique types that are a blend of inherited structures, the constraints of the transit... more

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Media reform in Tunisia: a volatile process

Fatima el Issawi

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 8 pp.

"President Saied’s moves to undermine constitutional governance and Tunisia’s parliament pose a major challenge for further media reforms. Yet, should the political environment prove enabling, foreign donors, media assistance organizations, and other stakeholders should prioritize working with l... more

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The global handbook of media accountability

Susanne Fengler; Tobias Eberwein; Matthias Karmasin (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2022), xviii, 614 pp., illustr., index

ISBN 978-0-367-34628-7 (hbk); 978-1-03-215615-6 (pbk); 978-0-429-32694-3 (pdf)

"The Global Handbook of Media Accountability brings together leading scholars to 'de-Westernize' the academic debate on media accountability and discuss different models of media self-regulation and newsroom transparency around the globe. With examination of the status quo of media accountability in... more

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UNESCO's Multi-donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP) action in Tunisia: 2018-2021 quadrennial report, country summaries

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 8 pp.

"Past UNESCO support resulted in the establishment of a Monitoring Unit on the Safety of Journalists in partnership with the Union of Tunisian Journalists (Syndicat National des Journalistes Tunisiens (SNJT) and OHCHR, which has been piloted since 2018. Throughout the reporting period, the MDP has p... more

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Media and politics in the southern Mediterranean: communicating power in transition after 2011

Roxane Farmanfarmaian (ed.)

Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY: Routledge (2021), xv, 426 pp., illustr.

ISBN 978-0-367-53894-1 (pbk); 978-1-351-02527-0 (ebook); 978-1-138-49488-6 (hbk);

Cultural production and social movements after the Arab Spring: nationalism, politics, and transnational identity

Ayman A. El- Desouky; Eid Mohamed (eds.)

London: Tauris (2021), xii, 250 pp., figures, tables, index

ISBN 978-0-7556-3421-7 (online); 978-0-7556-3419-4 (pdf); 978-0-7556-4127-7 (pbk); 978-0-7556-3418-7 (hbk) CC BY

"This book provides an original contribution to current social and cultural theory on Arab social movements by giving a fuller historical and critical treatment of contemporary artistic and cultural production from the region and beyond. Thematically structured and covering culture, media, politics,... more

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Arab media systems

Carola Richter; Claudia Kozman (eds.)

Cambridge: Open Book Publishers (2021), xliv, 345 pp., index

ISBN 978-1-80064-059-7 (pbk); 978-1-80064-061-0 (pdf) CC BY

"This volume provides a comparative analysis of media systems in the Arab world, based on criteria informed by the historical, political, social, and economic factors influencing a country's media. Reaching beyond classical western media system typologies, Arab Media Systems brings together contribu... more

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Negotiating dissidence: the pioneering women of Arab documentary

Stefanie Van de Peer

Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2018), vii, 238 pp., figures, bibliogr., p.225-232, index

ISBN 978-1-4744-3755-4 (pbk); 978-0-7486-9606-2 (hbk); 978-0-7486-9607- 9 (pdf)

"In spite of harsh censorship, conservative morals and a lack of investment, women documentarists in the Arab world have found ways to subtly negotiate dissidence in their films, something that is becoming more apparent since the ‘Arab Revolutions’. In this book, Stefanie Van de Peer traces the ... more

Thirty rising media markets 2016

Anne Austin; Jonathan Barnard; Nicola Hutcheon

London: ZenithOptimedia (2016), 51 pp.

"The markets we do include are a very diverse bunch, from the very closed and politically tightly controlled such as Laos; through a large number of nations on the African continent which have seen a sudden improvement in digital infrastructure thanks to the landing of several new submarine intercon... more

Arabische Medien

Carola Richter; Asiem El Difraoui (eds.)

Konstanz; München: UVK (2015), 344 pp.

ISBN 978-3-86764-509-6

"Im Fokus des ersten Teils stehen transnationale Phänomene wie die Bedeutung des Satellitenfernsehens und der Sozialen Medien sowie die Rolle von Minderheiten, Gender und Islamisten in den Medien. Diese Beiträge geben den aktuellen Stand der Forschung wieder und reflektieren diesen. Im zweiten Tei... more

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Arab media moguls

Donatella Della Ratta; Naomi Sakr; Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2015), xiii, 233 pp., bibliogr. p.223-228, index

ISBN 978-1-78076-732-1 (pbk); 978-1-7845-3277-2 (hbk); 978-0-7556-0854-6 (online)

"Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and r... more

Assessment of the media development sector in the Southern Mediterranean region

Catherine Joppart; Dina Basla

MedMedia; European Union (2015), 32 pp.

"This research study examines and assesses the progress of media development work in the Southern Mediterranean region in the wake of the Arab Spring. It highlights the challenges faced by international agencies and presents examples of effective, innovative interventions that could help to shape be... more

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Uncommon grounds: new media and critical practices in North Africa and the Middle East

Anthony Downey (ed.)

London; New York: Tauris (2014), 359 pp., many illustr., index

ISBN 978-1-78453-035-8

"Examining the opportunities presented by the real-time generation of new, relatively unregulated content online, Uncommon Grounds evaluates the prominent role that new media has come to play in artistic practices – and social movements – in the Arab world today. Analysing alternative forms of c... more

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Women and ICT in Africa and the Middle East: changing selves, changing societies

Ineke Buskens; Anne Webb (eds.)

London: Zed Books (2014), 338 pp.

ISBN 978-1-7836-0042-7 (pbk); 978-1-3502-2402-5 (online)

Postcolonial images: studies in North African film

Roy Armes

Bloomington: Indiana University Press (2005), xv, 278 pp., many illustr., abbrev. p.xiii-xv, bibliogr. p.255-265, index

" ... Roy Armes examines the political and cultural context of the films and the film industry in the post-independence era. Since the birth of cinema, North Africa has been the site of countless European and U.S. film productions. This book, however, focuses on the postcolonial period, when indigen... more