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Now, the Media Revolution
\"Millions of satellite television viewers in the Middle East and North Africa are set to get a host of new news channels next year as Arab and western investors target a younger, more demanding, audience.\" (Middle East) This article highlights plans \"for the launch of a 24-hour international news channel, Alarab, early next year.\"
Magazine Article
Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape
This book analyzes how and why Al Jazeera English (AJE) became the channel of choice to understand the massive protests across the Arab world 2011. Aiming to explain the 'Al Jazeera moment,' it tracks the channel's bumpy road towards international recognition in a longitudinal, in-depth analysis of the channel's editorial profile and strategies. Studying AJE from its launch in mid-November 2006 to the 'Arab Spring', it explains and problematizes the channel's ambitious editorial agenda and strategies, examines the internal conflicts, practical challenges and minor breakthroughs in its formative years.
The Al Jazeera-phenomenon has received massive attention, but it remains under-researched. The growth of transnational satellite television has transformed the global media landscape into a complex web of multi-vocal, multimedia and multi-directional flows. Based on a combination of policy-, production- and content analysis of comprehensive empirical data the book offers an innovative perspective on the theorization of global news contra-flows. By problematizing the distinctive characteristics of AJE, it examines the strategic motivation behind the channel and the ways in which its production processes and news profile are meant to be different from its Anglo-American competitors. These questions underscore a central nexus of the book: the changing relationship between transnational satellite news and power.
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Religious Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan
In Pakistan, religious talk shows emerged as a popular
television genre following the 2002 media liberalization reforms.
Since then, these shows have become important platforms where ideas
about Islam and religious authority in Pakistan are developed and
argued. In Religious Television and Pious Authority in
Pakistan , Taha Kazi reveals how these talk shows mediate
changes in power, belief, and practice. She also identifies the
sacrifices and compromises that religious scholars feel compelled
to make in order to ensure their presence on television. These
scholars, of varying doctrinal and educational
backgrounds-including madrasa -educated scholars and
self-taught celebrity preachers-are given screen time to debate and
issue religious edicts on the authenticity and contemporary
application of Islamic concepts and practices. In response, viewers
are sometimes allowed to call in live with questions. Kazi
maintains that these featured debates inspire viewers to reevaluate
the status of scholarly edicts, thereby fragmenting religious
authority . By exploring how programming decisions
inadvertently affect viewer engagements with Islam, Religious
Television and Pious Authority in Pakistan looks beyond the
revivalist impact of religious media and highlights the prominence
of religious talk shows in disrupting expectations about faith.
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Resur(e)recting a Spectacular Hero: Diriliş Ertuğrul, Necropolitics, and Popular Culture in Turkey
The hugely popular proto-Ottoman television serial Resurrection Ertuğrul (Diriliş Ertuğrul, 2014–) is the culmination of a series of attempts by Turkish government broadcaster TRT to produce a historical drama in line with the values of the governing AKP. Far from being confined to the television screen, Resurrection is called upon by the government for multiple extra-textual engagements with the public. This essay traces some of the ways in which the serial has been used instrumentally by the AKP, blurring traditional distinctions between entertainment and official (state sanctioned) history, and intervening in political discourse. It first introduces the notion of prescriptive activation to describe the extra-textual use of media texts by those in power for political ends. Next, it examines the trappings of death that surround Resurrection, suggesting that the serial partakes in a representational necropolitics that fetishizes death for the nation. Finally, it explores the stakes of such representation, turning to a case in which text-inspired and literal necropolitics converge.
Journal Article
Televisual Experiences of Iran's Isolation: Turkish Melodrama and Homegrown Comedy in the Sanctions Era
This essay examines the television viewing habits of Iranians since 2010, when the first of a series of crippling international sanctions were imposed on Iran after diplomatic efforts to curb the country's nuclear program stalled. Like many others in the region, viewers in Iran have been swept up by the recent wave of Turkish serials, which a new generation of offshore private networks dubbed into Persian and beamed to households with illegal satellite television dishes. These glossy melodramas provided access to consumerist utopias increasingly beyond the reach of Iranians living under the shadow of sanctions. Despite the enormous popularity of Turkish television imports with Iranian audiences, the Islamic Republic's networks managed to broadcast some successful “counter-programming” during this era of economic and political isolation. The comedy Paytakht/Capital (2011–15), more specifically, eschewed the glamour and glitz of many Turkish serials for ordinary characters living rather ordinary lives in small town Iran. In doing so, the series highlighted not only the problems that the sanctions regime created or exacerbated in Iranian society but also the virtues of remaining on the margins of a neoliberal global economic order. The essay concludes by asking how Iranian audiences might enjoy both Capital and Turkish melodramas simultaneously.
Journal Article
Martyr bodies in the media: Human rights, aesthetics, and the politics of immediation in the Palestinian intifada
The growth of the human rights regime in the Palestinian occupied territories during the last two decades and the spread of visual media have had an extreme effect on the nature of Palestinian politics and society. They have transformed the way Palestinians represent themselves to each other and to the international community, whereby appeals to human rights help to constitute a human subject with certain kinds of rights that are seen to arise not from a political status but from the state of (human) nature. In this article, I explore the \"politics of immediation\" at work during the second Palestinian intifada, which began in 2000, to explain why social actors mobilize representations of people in states of acute physical and emotional distress as part of their political projects.
Journal Article
Emphasizing the Similarities, Arab Spring and Sub-Saharan Africa
The year 2022 marks twelve years since the international community witnessed a series of protests that would become an important turning point in the history of modern Middle East, which is now known as the Arab Spring. It began with the self-immolation of a young Tunisian street fruit seller named Mohammed Bouazizi on 18 December 2010 and morphed into a series of the social upheavals and protests that followed in the spring of 2011; hence, the name–Arab Spring. These remonstrations energized the average Arab— hitherto weakened by decades of autocracy—with a new self-confidence and consequently, four powerful Arab political leaders were overthrown. The Arab Spring demonstrated the capacity of aggrieved citizens to question years of brutality and poor governance. Presently, there are indications that the Arab Spring may be replicated in Sub-Saharan Africa. To examine the relevance of the Arab Spring to the sub-Saharan African region, this study focused on a textual examination of current media and non-media sources.
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How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings: A Content Analysis
Employing content analysis, this study compares the coverage of the Arab uprisings by the People’s Daily (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China) and Caixin Net (a typical commercial media) with statements from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the last decade. It shows that the overall attention given to Arab uprisings in the People’s Daily and Caixin Net declined during the period, but there were shifts in the framing of the conflicts, presentation of issues, and positions. The article demonstrates and analyses how the approach and outline of the conflicts in the People’s Daily changed from disaster to criticism, and then to comparison—its position towards the events generally negative—and how Caixin Net moved from a disaster to a contextual framing of the events, its position tending to be neutral.
Journal Article
Watching Arabic Television in Europe
What are Arabic Europeans watching on television and how does it affect their identities as Europeans? New evidence from seven capitals shows that, far from being isolated in ethnic media ghettoes, they are critical news consumers in Arabic and European languages and engaged citizens.
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