Naomi Sakr is a Reader in Communication in the School of Media, Arts and Design at the University of Westminster. She is the author of Middle Eastern Studies Book Prize-winner, 'Satellite Realms': Transnational Television, Globalisation and the Middle East', and she has edited two books, 'Women and Media in the Middle East': Power through Self-Expression and 'Arab Media and Political Renewal': Community, Legitimacy and Public Life. All were published by I B Tauris.