Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World ─ A Decade of Change

This book addresses the roles of various media in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world. Interdisciplinary contributions examine the socio-political dynamics generated in and through media, with perspectives emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science. This book explores both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satellite television, Facebook, Web.2 technology, posters, and music videos. Topics range across the politics of popular culture, women scholars' religious fatwas, the Palestinian visual public sphere, Hezbollah's media policy, women's presence on Arab satellite television, and the uses of Facebook in the Tunisian revolution. Contributors include such well-known scholars as Charles Hirschkind, Marwan Kraidy, Amahl Bishara, and Olfa Lamloum.

Lena Jayyusi is Professor of Communication and Media Sciences at Zayed University, UAE, and non-resident Senior Research Fellow at MUWATIN, The Palestinian Institute for the Study of Democracy. Her book Categorization and the Moral Order, now considered a classic in its field, was translated into French in 2010, and re-issued in the Routledge Revivals series in 2013.

Anne Sofie Roald is Professor in Religious Studies at Malmo University, Sweden, and affiliated with Chr. Michelsen Institute, Bergen, Norway. She is the author of New Muslims in the European Context: The experience of Scandinavian converts and Religious Minorities in the Middle East: Domination, Self-Empowerment, Accommodation.