Were the 2006 war and the assassination of Imad Mughniyeh operational setbacks but propaganda victories? Pete Ajemian traces recent developments in Hizbullah’s media strategy. (features video)

Refqa Abu-Remaileh on how one filmmaker uses innovative storylines and production techniques to break with more politically overt narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. (features video)

Journalism in Iran and Media, Culture and Society in Iran will help academic and general audiences navigate between simplistic ‘reformist versus hardliner’ narratives by bringing social science perspectives to bear on the historical development and contemporary diversity of Iran’s media, writes Managing Editor Will Ward.

Instant Nationalism contains a wealth of material and a useful set of questions to be explored in further studies of transnational media in the Middle East and the shaping of regional public perception and political action, argues Becky Schulthies.

Flagg Miller’s The Moral Resonance of Arab Media remains at a rarefied, theoretical level, but bears ample rewards for advanced students of Arabic literature, media studies, communication anthropology and public sphere studies, writes Zuzanna Olszewska.

Mideast Wire Al-Akhbar, an independent pro-opposition newspaper, wrote in its lead editorial on May 8: “Yesterday’s incidents constituted a strategic shift in the internal and regional struggle over managing the situation in Lebanon. While the opposition hid under the cover of the labor protests to register an objection, the most …

Mideast Wire On May 8, the Palestinian-owned Al-Quds al-Arabi daily carried the following opinion piece by Chief Editor Abdel-Beri Atwan: “Most politicians and analysts in Lebanon agree that civil war is a red line, because all the sides whether in the government or the opposition are aware of the fact …

Mideast Wire   On May 5, the Hezbollah affiliated Al-Manar Television carried an interview with Hezbollah Deputy Secretary General Shaykh Na'im Qasim, by Anchorwoman Batul Ayyub Na'im: "...Here are the forces of the authority in Lebanon declaring to the public what they used to do secretly in terms of collusion …

Mideast Wire On May 7, the English language website of the Saudi-owned newspaper Asharq al-Awsat carried the following report: "Palestinian producer Yousef Aldeek, 43, travels with his companions from one region to the next in the Palestinian territories to wherever Palestinians reside, whether in remote countryside areas, neighborhoods or refugee …

Mideast Wire As-Safir, an independent leftist newspaper, wrote in its lead editorial on May 8: “Political and security developments accelerated yesterday in a dramatic and unprecedented manner. The Lebanese capital and the nearby suburbs awoke yesterday to a scene that brought back to Lebanese memories the black scenes through which …