Issue 24, summer/fall 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/WA17MPEE Scroll down for English Abstract ولاء عقاد - مدرس بقسم الإذاعة والتليفزيون، كلية الدراسات الإسلامية والعربية، جامعة الأزهر. قامت هذه الدراسة علي رصد وتحليل آراء وتقييمات أساتذة الإعلام في مصر لأداء الفضائيات المصرية في تغطية انتخابات الرئاسة الأمريكية التي أجريت عام 2016م، والتعرف على ترتيب القنوات …
اقرا المزيد »Egypt
The Arab Spring in Israeli Media and Emergent Conceptions of Citizenship
Issue 24, summer/fall 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/GLDK17AS Abstract This article returns to 2011 and the beginning of the Arab Spring in order to ask how the Israeli middle class came to draw similarities between their conditions and those of the Arab citizens who had risen against authoritarian rule. This question is also …
Read More »COLUMN | Qatar’s Costly Miscalculations
Issue 24, summer/fall 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/FAI17TAF Tensions between Qatar and the rest of the Gulf Cooperation Council and other Arab countries resurfaced with a vengeance in May 2017. The latest escalation came in response to statements allegedly made by Emir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani in support of Iran as …
Read More »BOOK EXCERPT | Online Activism in the Middle East: Political Power and Authoritarian Governments from Egypt to Kuwait
Issue 24, summer/fall 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/JN17BEOA 25 January—Tahrir Square Freedom—Facebook Does the Internet facilitate social and political change, or even democratization, in the Middle East? The subject of this inquiry is the use of online platforms among activists in the Middle East, and the importance of such platforms in effecting change. …
Read More »Middle Eastern Minorities in Global Media and the Politics of National Belonging
Issue 24, summer/fall 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/EM17TPNB Abstract Since the Arab uprisings began in 2010, some communities have experienced increased levels of violence or insecurity on the basis of their ethnic, religious, or linguistic identity. This article examines how such communities have mobilized and developed their media strategies in order to protect themselves …
Read More »DMC TV Network Takes Over
DMC TV network started broadcasting its long list of television programs and series in Egypt on January 14, establishing itself as a major player in the Arab media landscape. So far, little information has been made available clarifying leadership structure and budget, however based on the quality and diversity of programming, …
Read More »BOOK EXCERPT | Creative Insurgency in The Naked Blogger of Cairo
Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/MMK17BEC In the wake of the Arab uprisings, journalists, activists, and scholars coupled creative with revolution (or dissent, protest, resistance) to describe political graffiti, rap, art, and video. Distinguished institutions, from the Prince Claus Fund of the Netherlands to the Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, …
Read More »Revolutionary Art or “Revolutonizing Art”? Making Art on the Streets of Cairo
Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/RARB17RA In an article published on December 17, 2014, Surti Singh, an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the American University in Cairo (AUC), wrote that “a new set of questions is crystallizing about the role of art in contemporary Egypt” and posed the following questions: “Can …
Read More »العلاقة بين الاعتماد على تكنولوجيا الاتصال وتعزيز الهوية الاجتماعية للمصريين – دراسة مسحية
Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/SAEB17TD د. ثريا أحمد البدوى- أستاذ بكلية الإعلام، جامعة القاهرة يرتكز مفهوم الهوية الاجتماعية على السياق الثقافي والاجتماعي للمجتمع؛ حيث ترتبط عملية تعزيز الهوية بقنوات التنشئة الاجتماعية وتكنولوجيا الاتصال المجتمعية اللذين يسهمان فى الحفاظ على تماسك المجتمع، ويقويان الشعور بالانتماء، ويرفعان من معدلات المشاركة النشطة. فى …
اقرا المزيد »FILM REVIEW | Revolution from a Farmer’s Perch – A Review of I Am The People
Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/AFH17FRI Anna Rousillion’s feature documentary I Am the People follows Farraj and his family through four tumultuous years in Egyptian history, beginning just before revolution and chronicling their lives in its aftermath. Farraj, the film’s protagonist, is a wiry farmer in the southern province of Luxor, …
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