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Building Regional Strategies for Media Development in the Middle East and North Africa

Fatima El-Issawi, Nicholas Benequista

Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2020), 28 pp.

"Experts from 13 countries in the Middle East and North Africa agreed on the priorities that could provide the basis for greater collective action to defend independent media in the region. This report provides a summary of those deliberations [...] Building on and strengthening cross-country networ ... more

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Let Free Media Thrive: Stories of Impact of the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists

Paris: UNESCO (2020), 19 pp.

"2019 has seen major achievements resulting from needs-based, and specifically-tailored support through the Multi-Donor Programme on Freedom of Expression and Safety of Journalists (MDP). Actions building on ongoing work and others opening new avenues, have initiated substantial changes in favour of ... more

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Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories

Michael Butter, Peter Knight (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2020), xx, 680 pp.

"Taking a global and interdisciplinary approach, the Routledge Handbook of Conspiracy Theories provides a comprehensive overview of conspiracy theories as an important social, cultural and political phenomenon in contemporary life. This handbook provides the most complete analysis of the phenomenon ... more

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Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences

Hyesu Park (ed.)

New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press (2020), 241 pp.

"Media Culture in Transnational Asia: Convergences and Divergences examines contemporary media use within Asia, where over half of the world's population resides. The book addresses media use and practices by looking at the transnational exchanges of ideas, narratives, images, techniques, and values ... more

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Viability of Alternative Online News Media Organizations in Developing and Transformation Countries

Christoph Schmidt (ed.)

Baden-Baden: Nomos;Deutsche Welle DW Akademie (2019), 209 pp.

"The main aim of the present study is to assess the status quo and the influencing factors of media viability in developing countries and economies in transition. Accordingly, three general research questions have been formulated: 1. Which factors determine the viability of alternative online news m ... more

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The Legal Framework on Freedom of Expression in Morocco

Jocelyn Grange

Rabat: Adala;IREX Europe;Article;UNESCO Office in Rabat (2019), 33 pp.

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Analysing Refugee-Host Community Narratives on Social Media in Lebanon

Jacob Lefton, Maude Morrison, Mira El Mawla, Helena Puig Larrauri

UNDP (2019), 36 pp.

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Politics and Social Media in the Middle East and North Africa: Trends and Trust in Online Information

Jason Wee, Sophie Li

Arab Barometer (2019), 14 pp.

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Video Games and the Global South

Phillip Penix-Tadsen (ed.)

Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Mellon University;ETC Press (2019), viii, 290 pp.

"The innovative research in Video Games and the Global South focuses on a range of topics including art games and serious games from the global south, postcolonialism and cultural representation, player communities, software modification (modding), intercultural communication online, racism and sexi ... more

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Mediatized Religion in Asia: Studies on Digital Media and Religion

Kerstin Radde-Antweiler, Xenia Zeiler (eds.)

London; New York: Routledge (2019), xv, 231 pp.

"This edited volume discusses mediatized religion in Asia, examining the intensity and variety of constructions and processes related to digital media and religion in Asia today. Individual chapters present case studies from various regions and religious traditions in Asia, critically discussing the ... more

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A Massacre Foretold: National Excommunication and Al-Gama’a

Walter Armbrust

Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 197-217

"Al-Gama’a [The Society], a 28-part television biopic of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hasan al-Banna, was broadcast in the fall of 2010, just before the January 25, 2011 Revolution. The writer of the series, Wahid Hamid, was an important screenwriter for both television and the cinema and a figure k ... more

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La coexistence des médias et du confessionnalisme au Liban: Analyse du pouvoir politique et religieux sur les médias libanais

Rita I. Sayah

Paris: L'Harmattan (2019), 178 pp.

"Cette oeuvre révèle le pouvoir géant des identités politiques et religieuses libanaises sur les expressions artistiques et médiatiques, tout en racontant l’histoire de ce pays et en analysant divers événements politiques, religieux, artistiques et/ou médiatiques qui ont eu lieu entre 1989 ... more

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"There is a Price to Pay": The Criminalization of Peaceful Speech in Lebanon

Jehanne Henry

New York: Human Rights Watch (2019), 122 pp.

"Over the past few years, Lebanon has witnessed an alarming increase in attacks on peaceful speech and expression. The country’s criminal defamation laws, which authorize imprisonment up to three years for peaceful speech, have been used against citizens who have written about pressing social issu ... more

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Digital Jihad: Online Communication and Violent Extremism

Francesco Marone (ed.)

Milano: Ledizioni LediPublishing;Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (ISPI) (2019), 156 pp.

"[...] this ISPI report aims to investigate the current landscape of jihadist online communication, including original empirical analysis. In doing so, the volume does not interpret the internet as a shapeless monolith but tries to highlight the opportunities and limitations of different digital pla ... more

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Christen im Nahen Osten: Zwischen Martyrium und Exodus
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Matthias Vogt

Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (wbg) (2019), 477 pp.

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Freedom of Sharing and Violations Against Journalists on Social Media Sites in Palestine: The Range of Violations is Growing

Ghazi Ahmad Bani Odeh

Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 61 pp.

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Humanitarianism and Media: 1900 to the Present

Johannes Paulmann (ed.)

New York; Oxford: Berghahn (2019), viii, 305 pp.

"From Christian missionary publications to the media strategies employed by today’s NGOs, this interdisciplinary collection explores the entangled histories of humanitarianism and media. It traces the emergence of humanitarian imagery in the West and investigates how the meanings of suffering and ... more

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Media and Mass Atrocity: The Rwanda Genocide and Beyond
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Allan Thompson (ed.)

Waterloo, Ontario: Centre for International Governance Innovation (2019), x, 637 pp.

"The book includes an extensive section on the echoes of Rwanda, which looks at the cases of Darfur, the Central African Republic, Myanmar, and South Sudan, while the impact of social media as a new actor is examined through chapters on social media use by the Islamic State and in Syria and in other ... more

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The Media in Arab Countries: From Development Theories to Cooperation Policies

Tourya Guaaybess

London; Hoboken: ISTE;Wiley (2019), xxi, 173 pp.

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Satire and Protest: The Middle East Through Egyptian Cartoons

Nirvana El Saied

Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (2019), 23 pp.

"This paper aims at examining how Egyptian popular culture shapes perception of the Israeli – Palestinian conflict through the widespread medium of political cartoons. The paper examines cartoons published in Egyptian newspapers after the American president, Donald Trump, announced in 2017 that th ... more

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