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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

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

Paris: UNESCO (2022), 6 pp.

"The MDP’s response to these urgent needs was twofold: assisting Lebanese media in overcoming the viability crisis caused by the Beirut blasts, and countering the deterioration of freedom of expression and of the safety of journalists, while also maintaining previous efforts to raise awareness on ... 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

Media coverage of religious freedom and diversity in Iraq, Lebanon and Sudan: content analysis report

Safwan Jad; Widad Jarbouh

Beirut: Samir Kassir Foundation; Internews (2020), 57 pp.

CC BY-NC-ND

"The most mentioned religious groups include Muslims (Sunnis and Shiites). This is logical given that Islam is the majority religion in the three monitored countries. There is also a fair amount of content mentioning Christians in each country as well as Shiites and Sunnis in both Lebanon and Iraq. ... more

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The media in Lebanon: fragmentation and conflict in the Middle East

Nabil Dajani

London et al.: Tauris (2019), xiii, 222 pp., bibliogr. p.199-208, index

ISBN 978-1-78076-541-9 (hbk); 978-1-78831-801-3 (online); 978-1-78673-657-4 (pdf)

"Lebanese society is famously, and even notoriously, fragmented, along both class and sectarian lines. Here, Nabil Dajani looks at how this societal division impacts on the nature of the mass media in Lebanon. Implementing the wider theory that the structure and content of mass media is unique to th... 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

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

Lautsprecher und Widersprecher: ein Ansatz zum Vergleich der Mediensysteme

Roger Blum

Köln: Herbert von Halem Verlag (2014), 440 pp., 60 tab., bibliogr. p.403-440

ISBN 978-3-86962-049-7

"Der Autor porträtiert 23 Länder aus sechs Weltregionen. Anschließend bildet er mittels des pragmatischen Differenz-Ansatzes sechs Modelle heraus: Das liberale Modell, das Public-Service-Modell, das Klientel-Modell, das Schock-Modell, das Patrioten-Modell und das Kommando-Modell. Dabei zeigt sich... 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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Narrating conflict in the Middle East: discourse, image and communication practices in Lebanon and Palestine

Dina Matar; Zahera Harb (eds.)

London; New York: Tauris (2013), x, 276 pp.

"The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Narrating Conflict in the Middle East explores another path to addressing long-term conflict. The... more

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Image politics in the Middle East: the role of the visual in political struggle

Lina Khatib

London; New York: Tauris (2013), xii, 248 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.230-242, index

"Politics in the Middle East is now ‘seen’ and the image is playing a central part in processes of political struggle. This is the first book in the literature to engage directly with these changing ways of communicating politics in the region - and particularly with the politics of the image, i... more

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Palestine online: transnationalism, the internet and the construction of identity

Miriyam Aouragh

London; New York: Tauris (2012) new paperback ed., xix, 272 pp., 18 illustr., 7 tables, bibliogr. p.249-264, index

ISBN 978-1-84885-364-5 (print); 978-0-7556-0788-4 (online)

Other Editions: 1st ed. 2011

"For Palestine's diaspora and exiled communities, the internet has become an important medium for the formation of Palestinian national and transnational identity. Miriyam Aouragh looks at the internet as both a space and an instrument for linking Palestinian diasporas in Palestine, Jordan and Leban... more

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Channels of resistance in Lebanon: liberation propaganda, Hezbollah and the media

Zahera Harb

London; New York: Tauris (2011), 279 pp., bibliogr. p.241-259, index

"The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media’s role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support o... more

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Shadows of war: a social history of silence in the twentieth century

Efrat Ben-Ze'ev; Jay Winter; Ruth Ginio (eds.)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2010), ix, 223 pp., index

ISBN 978-0-511-67701-4 (ebook); 978-0-521-19658-1 (hbk)

"Silence lies between forgetting and remembering. This book explores the ways in which different societies have constructed silences to enable men and women to survive and make sense of the catastrophic consequences of armed conflict. Using a range of disciplinary approaches, it examines the silence... more

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People, land and water: participatory development communication for natural resource management

Guy Bessette (ed.)

London; Ottawa: Earthscan; International Development Research Centre (IDRC) (2006), 313 pp., illustr., bibliogr. p.286-303, index

ISBN 1-84407343-2

"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... more

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Women and media in the Middle East: power through self-expression

Naomi Sakr (ed.)

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 fil... more