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The contributors set out to examine the ways in which such conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media.

The contributors set out to examine the ways in which such conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media.

Palestine Online: Transnationalism, the Internet and the Construction of Identity

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

Arab Cultural Studies Mapping the Field Cover

Reflects and engages in an interdisciplinary discussion on the different facets of Arab cultural studies, including gender, economy, history, epistemology, language, method, politics, literary and cultural criticism, institutionalization, popular culture, creativity and much more.

Channels of Resistance in Lebanon Liberation Propaganda Hezbollah and the Media Cover

Author identifies the characteristics of 'liberation propaganda' through the coverage and experience of the two Lebanese TV stations Tele Liban and Al Manar within the historical, cultural, organisational and religious contexts in which they operated, and how these elements shaped their professional practice and their news values.

The New Arab Journalist Mission and Identity in a Time of Change Cover

Drawing on the first broad cross-border survey of Arab journalists, first-person interviews with scores of reporters and editors, and his three decades' experience reporting from the Middle East, the author examines how Arab journalists see themselves and their mission at this critical time in the evolution of the Arab media.

Blogistan Cover

The protests unleashed by Iran's disputed presidential election in June 2009 brought the Islamic Republic's vigorous cyber culture to the world's attention. This title offers both a reading of Iranian politics and a conceptual framework for understanding the politics of the internet, with implications for the wider Middle East, China and beyond.

The ArabIsraeli Conflict in the Media Producing Shared Memory and National Identity in the Global Television Era Cover

The television industry has metamorphosised from a national and largely-monopolized sector to a commercial and global enterprise. This title shows that making the documentary on the Arab-Israeli struggle turned into a war: a war over competing memories, interpretation, editing, and finally narration.

What it Means to be Palestinian cover

A collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. It tells their stories chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing an autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people.

Cultural Encounters in the Arab World On Media the Modern and the Everyday Cover

Bringing together modernity as a philosophical category with the bridging spaces of Arab everyday life, this title offers fresh methods of comprehending the question of what it means to be modern in the Arab world.