Media Evolution on the Eve of the Arab Spring

1. Introduction
Leila Hudson, Adel Iskandar

Part I. Social Change and Political Culture

2. Arab Media, Political Stagnation, and Civil Engagement: Reflections on the Eve of the Arab Spring
Mohamed Zayani

3. New Media, Social Change, and the Communication Revolution in an Egyptian Village
Sahar Khamis

4. Mapping the Arabic Blogosphere: Politics, Culture, and Dissent
Bruce Etling, John Kelly, Robert Faris, John Palfrey

5. From Brotherhood to Blogosphere: Dynamics of Cyberactivism and Identity in the Egyptian Ikhwan
Courtney C. Radsch

Part II. New Genres and Literacies

6. Preaching Islam to the Video Game Generation: New Media Literacies and Religious Edutainment in the Arab World
Vit Sisler

7. Neopatriarchy in Syrian and Turkish Television Drama: Between the Culture Industry and the Dialect Imagination
Leila Hudson

8. Media Fatwas and Fatwa Editors: Challenging and Preserving Yusuf al-Qaradawi’s Religious Authority
Bettina Gräf

9. Technology Literacies of the New Media: Phrasing the World in the “Arab Easy” (R)evolution
Yves Gonzalez-Quijano

Part III. Global Effects

10. BBC Broadcasting in the Middle East: The Evolution of Public Diplomacy
Annabelle Sreberny

11. New Media and Public Diplomacy in the New Arab World
Philip Seib

12. Al Jazeera English as a Conciliatory Medium
Mohammed el-Nawawy, Shawn Powers

13. Imagined Coherence: Transnational Media and the Arab Diaspora in Europe
Khalil Rinnawi

Part IV. Evolution of Media Theories

14. The State of Arab Journalism Studies
Noha Mellor

15. Arab and Western Media Systems Typologies
Kai Hafez

16. Defying Definition: Toward Reflexivity in “Arab Media” Studies
Adel Iskandar

Keywords: Science, Science, general