Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century

ISBN-13: 9781784532727 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 240 str.

Zahera Harb

Opis

How does the media cover the Middle East? Through a detailed country-by-country approach, this book provides a detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab world. Each chapter provides an overview of the country in question, including the political context, relationship to international politics, and the key features that are most frequently covered in Western media. The author explores how the media can be used to serve particular political agendas on both a regional and international level. Zahera Harb also considers the changes to the media landscape following the growth of digital and social media, showing how access to the media is no longer restricted to state or elite actors. By studying coverage of the Middle East from a whole range of news providers, this book shows how news formats and practices may be defined and shaped differently by different nations. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of journalism, especially those focusing on the Arab world.

Spis treści

Introduction Reporting Lebanon Reporting Palestine/Israel Reporting Gaza Reporting Jordan Reporting Iraq Reporting Saudi Arabia Reporting Turkey Reporting Iran Reporting Egypt Reporting Syria Conclusion: Thoughts on Reporting the Middle East

O autorze

Zahera Harb is Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City University, London and previously worked as a journalist in Lebanon. She is the author of Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media and co-editor (with Dina Matar) of Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon, both published by I.B.Tauris.