Maggie Zanger, a member of the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at the American University in Cairo, returned to Kurdistan in January to do research. Quickly enlisted by NBC as a news analyst, she soon found herself fully involved in the business of being a war journalist, albeit on …

The following stories appeared too soon before TBS's deadline to allow reporting. TBS considered them important enough to quote direct from the press. From Al-Ahram Weekly Online, 7 -13 November 2002, Issue 611 Protocols, Politics and Palestine Amira Howeidy reports on the furore surrounding a Dream-produced TV series alleged to contain …

This paper was presented at a seminar on "Media and the Muslim world" held at George Washington University's Department of Religion in April 2002. Our topic-Media and the Muslim world-is broad enough to support a two-day conference and susceptible enough to change, given the nature of media and the circumstances …

Introduction: The Re-Structuring Of The Arab Broadcasting Space A process of restructuring of the Arab broadcasting space began in the mid 1990s. It has given rise to a metamorphosed and completely new media scene, manifested in the expansion and the liberalisation of transnational satellite channels. The technological innovations that led …

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 …

The role of satellite television, particularly those channels making intensive use of movies in their programming, was acknowledged as an increasingly important factor in the film industry during the 26th Cairo Film Festival (October 15-25, 2002). "Satellite channels with films have helped create a new outlet for independent films." Ismail …

The Arab World is at the dawn of a new entertainment era. Communication technology revolution and the expansion of new media in the region have led the way to the effective delivery of on-demand entertainment and introduced a unique opportunity for passive Middle Eastern viewers to become active users and …

Middle East broadcasting has seen some major changes this past summer - and not all of them are good. First, John Tydeman, ADD (Arab Digital Distribution)'s president has departed the company. Tydeman is a well-known and highly-regarded figure in satellite pay-TV, having been one of Rupert Murdoch's key players in …

The Egyptian pan-Arab television sector is enigmatic in more ways than one. Observers of the Egyptian media know very well that, at heart, it is profoundly more pan-Arab than any other Arab media area. Its pan-Arab reach, however, does not tally with its expectations and, consequently, its market share of …

"How are the modern media affecting Arab identity? And how is globalization affecting our culture?" These were among the questions posed by Dr. Ramez Maaluf, Director of the Beirut Institute for Media (BIMA), in his remarks at the opening of the seventh annual conference of the Arab-US Association for Communication …