Issue 26, summer/fall 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/HA18EDIT The world now pays special attention to young people, often viewing them as the most critical group in the building and development of societies. In the Arab world, they make up the largest group, representing a qualitative advantage that requires investment to achieve desired growth. …
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Issue 25, winter/spring 2018 https://doi.org/10.70090/HA18MCIE These are unprecedented times. The world as a whole has not experienced crises of the scale and magnitude that we are currently seeing. Perhaps the heightened feelings of fear and aggravation in the face of these crises, and the realization of their consequences, has stemmed …
Read More »The BBC World Service Arabic TV: Revival of a Dream or Sudden Death by the Competition?
Discussions of the significance of transnational radio news networks and their impact on Arab audiences usually arrive sooner or later at the unprecedented popularity of the British Broadcasting Corporation’s (BBC) World Service Arabic Language service, the only news network to dominate ratings among Arab radio listeners. In fact, a new …
Read More »“Satellite Broadcasting and Arab Society” October 4-5, 2003, Meridian Hotel, Amman, Jordan
Two hundred participants gathered at the Meridian, Amman, to discuss different developments and impacts of satellite broadcasting on the Arab Society. The conference was sponsored by the Center for the Defense of the Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ), the Jordanian Ministry of Planning, the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, and Jordan Television. The …
Read More »Nilesat Research Shows Increased Penetration
The latest Nilesat viewership research conducted in June 2003 in five countries, coupled with estimates based on 2002 statistics for a further four, indicate that the Egyptian satellite's transmissions now reach almost 7.1 million households in the Middle East, nearly double the number for 2002. According to Nilesat figures, in …
Read More »“Watching the War” in the Arab World
If we asked Arab audiences a question about watching TV during the war on Iraq and where they got their war news and how much of their news came from the national terrestrial channels, the answer would most probably be "satellite television" for the first question and "some" for the …
Read More »Transnational Broadcast Services and Their Impact on the Peace Process in the Middle East
At the beginning of the new millennium and almost a quarter of a century after the Camp David accords that established hope for peace in the Middle East, a comprehensive peace is still a dream and Arab-Israeli relations are at a peak in terms of conflict and disagreement. Israel and …
Read More »AUSACE 2001: Economy of Media in the New Middle East
The sixth annual conference of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators (AUSACE) took place in Atlanta, Georgia, October 31 to November 3, 2001. The conference was hosted by Georgia State University and was co-sponsored by AUSACE; the Department of Communication, GSU; the Center for International Media Education; and the Middle …
Read More »The Current Situation of Satellite Broadcasting in the Middle East
Several satellite projects are breaking new ground in the Middle East. Egypt needed to find an effective medium for transmissions that reach all parts of the country and the Arab region as well, with minimum expense. The Egyptian government wanted to take a piece of the satellite cake by taking advantage …
Read More »The Regional Satellite Giants
Will it be cooperation or competition for Nilesat and Arabsat, the Middle East's two major satellites? And what will be the impact of Cairo's new Media Free Zone on any competition? TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin spoke with Arabsat Assistant Director General Omar Shoter in Paris, and TBS Cairo Correspondent Heba Kandil …
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