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Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents

Mehita Iqani, Fernando Resende
London et al.: Routledge (2019), xvi, 207 pp.
"This book interrogates the possibilities of global thinking from the south in the field of media, communication, and cultural studies. Through lenses of millennial media cultures, it refocuses the praxis of the global south in relation to the established ideas of globalization, development, and con ... more
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The 2018 Palestine Press Freedom Index

Ramallah: Palestinian Center for Development and Media Freedoms (MADA) (2019), 99 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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Media Ownership Monitor Egypt

Reporters Without Borders (2019), 687 pp.
"A hostile takeover of Egypt’s media is under way, leaving the influence on public opinion to be controlled by the state, the secret services and a few wealthy owners loyal to the regime and with close ties to the former president Hosni Mubarak. In a move to gain influence over the State-owned med ... 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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Media Toolkit for Practitioners to Better Implement the "Journalists' Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon"

Beirut: UNDP Lebanon; Thomson Reuters Foundation (2019), 66 pp.
"Toolkit Objectives: 1. Help journalists find practical applications for the “Journalists’ Pact for Strengthening Civil Peace in Lebanon.” 2. Practice reporting on issues in a way that overcomes divisions, provides solutions and develops stronger bonds between all members of the community. 3. ... more
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Media Use in the Middle East: A Seven-Nation Survey

Everette E. Dennis, Justin D. Martin, Fouad Hassan
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 ... more
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Impact Report 2017-2019: Make-IT in Africa. Successfully Promoting Tech Entrepreneurship and the Innovation Ecosystems of Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria and Tunisia

Bonn; Eschborn: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) (2019), 71 pp.
"Make-IT started as a "laboratory" for new types of partnerships between development organisations, business, finance and entrepreneurs. After 2 years of implementation experience, we can proudly say that we have successfully combined the strengths of the public and private sectors to promote digita ... more
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Social Media Activism in Egyptian Television Drama: Encoding the Counter-Revolution Narrative

Gianluca P. Parolin
Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 143-160
"Egyptian Ramadan TV series have explored the relationship between law and television in a number of iterations over the past few years. In 2017, the most watched production (115 million views on YouTube), Kalabsh, went one step further by examining the interaction between television broadcasting an ... more
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Revisiting Leadership in Information and Communication Technology (ICT)-Enabled Activism: A Study of Egypt’s Grassroots Human Rights Groups

Evronia Azer, G. Harindranath, Yingqin Zheng
New Media & Society, volume 21, issue 5 (2019), pp. 1141-1169
"Scholars argue that contemporary movements in the age of social media are leaderless and self-organised. However, the concept of connective leadership has been put forward to highlight the need for movements to have figures who connect entities together. This study conducts a qualitative research o ... more
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Road to 2030: Access to Information in the Driver’s Seat

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Free Press Unlimited; Global Forum for Media Development (GFMD) (2019), 68 pp.
"Spotlight report on the state of public access to information in Canada, Indonesia, Mongolia, Pakistan, Serbia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, Tunisia, and Ukraine prepared for the 2019 cycle of the Voluntary National Reviews and the 2019 UN High Level Political Forum." (Subtitle)
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Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in the Multiplatform Era

Naomi Sakr, Jeanette Steemers
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), ix, 142 pp.
"This book addresses gaps in our understanding of processes that underpin the making and circulation of children's screen contents across the Arab region and Europe. Taking account of recent disruptive shifts in geopolitics that call for new thinking about how children's media policy and production ... more
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Aufbruch im Silicon Wadi

Claudia Mende
welt-sichten, issue 12 (2019), pp. 61-63
"In der jordanischen Hauptstadt Amman blühen digitale Start-ups. Die hohe Arbeitslosigkeit lindert das kaum. Doch junge Leute bringen damit neue Ideen in Jordaniens Geschäftswelt." (Seite 61)
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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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Digital Media Startup Companies in the Arab World: The Examples of Lebanon, Morocco and Jordan

Deutsche Welle DW Akademie; Maharat Foundation (2019), 156 pp.
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World

Zahra Hankir, Christiane Amanpour (eds.)
New York: Penguin Books (2019), xxiv, 278 pp.
"International media coverage of the Arab world and its many complex, interconnected conflicts is dominated by the work of Western correspondents, many of whom are white and male--meaning we see only one side of the story. But a growing number of intrepid Arab women, whose access to and understandin ... more
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Media, Communication and the Struggle for Democratic Change: Case Studies on Contested Transitions

Katrin Voltmer, Christian Christensen, Irene Neverla, Nicole Stremlau, Barbara Thomass, Nebojsa Vladisavljevic, Herman Wasserman (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2019), xvii, 305 pp.
"This book investigates the role of media and communication in processes of democratization in different political and cultural contexts. Struggles for democratic change are periods of intense contest over the transformation of citizenship and the reconfiguration of political power. These democratiz ... more
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Reporting on the Evacuation of Kefraya and Fu’aa: Constructive Journalism Frames in the Coverage of Emerging Syrian Media

Amira Galal, Evaline Schot, Natasha Milton (eds.)
Free Press Unlimited (2019), 15 pp.
"This study presents a snapshot of the framing used in reporting on Syria. To ensure a diverse representation, the sample includes a selection of domestic (Syrian) and pan-Arab media organisations, whose alleged preferences towards the dominant parties in the Syrian conflict are mixed. The findings ... more
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Red Death and Black Life: Media, Martyrdom and Shame

Esha Momeni
Middle East Critique, volume 28, issue 2 (2019), pp. 177-195
"Most of Iran’s urban population experienced the war with Iraq (1980–1988) through the burden of privation and the fear of possible airstrikes. Thus, state-produced media on national television became the main apparatus through which they connected their daily lives to the national conflict. Rav ... more
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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.