Issue 32, summer/fall 2021 https://doi.org/10.70090/SH21SVAH Abstract Free access to music videos on YouTube has allowed generations of consumers to be exposed to songs from their favorite artists on a daily basis. Presented in the form of music videos, these songs contain visuals that carry several themes including the glorification of …

مقدمة يحتل الإعلام مكانة متقدمة في أولويات النظام الإيراني الذي يعتمد على آلة ضخمة من الوكالات الإخبارية والصحف اليومية المطبوعة والمواقع الإلكترونية والقنوات الفضائية في مصفوفة سياساته الداخلية والخارجية على حد سواء، ولإن أخذ الإعلام موقعه في صدارة تراتبية صنع القرار بهذا النظام؛ فإن موقعه أكثر تقدما خاصة في رسائله …

Issue 31, winter/spring 2021 https://doi.org/10.70090/SE21ISMA Abstract During the pandemic, social media became a repository for information obtained through official pages of governments in charge. Official and unofficial news sources occasionally featured false or misleading news.This study focuses on Arab audiences from the MENA region, aiming to investigate their social media …

First Edition - Edited By Noureddine Miladi, Noha Mellor (Routledge, 2020) The Routledge Handbook on Arab Media is an encyclopedic depiction of the history, roles, models of ownership, and regulations of print, broadcast, and online media in 20 Arab countries out of the 22 Arab countries represented in the Arab …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/JG20PPRI Introduction In their work on the regulation of social media influencers, Catalina Goanta and Sofia Ranchordás noted that the topic’s complexities involve, among other things, rethinking “the distinction between peers and professionals” (2019, 14). The United Arab Emirates in 2018 addressed this issue by essentially …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/AAR29BPD Abstract This paper attempts to map the major changes and developments of British public diplomacy in the Arab world. I argue here that the BBC and the British Council have greatly assisted British public diplomacy efforts and can be regarded as effective because exerting influence …

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, …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/CG17TIPD  Abstract The article deciphers the symbolic deconstruction of the Israeli Indignant Protest (2011–2012) on behalf of the local cultural simulacrum—based on Zionist narratives of Judaism. It presents, through the subjective eye of a participant observer, the symbolic paradigm by which the protest opened its way …

Any attempt to write an account of popular culture in the Middle East must face the question of how to define Arab and the Arabs? This might seem an odd statement at first glance: some 350 million people speak the language, ergo they are Arabs, and Arab, the Arabs, the …

Issue 23, winter/spring 2017 https://doi.org/10.70090/GA1710AF The following is an excerpt from the anthology Ten Arab Filmmakers edited by Josef Gugler and published by Indiana University Press (2015). Mohamed Chouikh occupies a key position as a kind of relay between the post-colonial, idealized Algeria of the 1960s and what one might …