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Media, Culture and the ArtsMost Arab and Middle Eastern media may not be free, but that doesn't mean they're not extremely influential. Learn about the variety of media, culture and the arts, how those voices shape opinion and filter western messages on the Arab Street and beyond, and the roles censorship and state control play on controlling the message.
The National Joins Media Landscape in the United Arab Emirates
The National is the latest of a half-dozen English-language newspapers and on-line publications to join the diverse media environment of the United Arab Emirates. But diversity doesn't necessarily mean press freedom. Profile: Al Jazeera
From its launch in 1996 Al Jazeera has revolutionized the rules of Arab television news while challenging western dominance in setting the agenda of perceptions about the Middle East. Oprah's Quiet Conquest of Arab Airwaves
Could Oprah’s 48 minutes a day on Arab TV, twice a day, be a more powerful and positive force of social subversion in the Middle East than George W. Bush’s missionary armies could ever hope to be? "The Kite Runner" Controversy: As Afghanistan Retreats into Chaos
Afghanistan has been retreating back into chaos and repression in 2006 and 2007. The decision to delay the release of 'The Kite Runner" illustrates to what extent the country's situation has become precarious. "The Kite Runner," by Khaled Hosseini: A Review
A review of "The Kite Runner," the novel by Afghan-American writer Khaled Hosseini about love and betrayal through Afghanistan's thirty-year war. Orhan Pamuk's Nobel Prize
Orhan Pamuk, by far Turkey's most popular novelist, won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2006--and stirred a major controversy in his home country over his comments about the Turkish genocide of Armenians and Turkish killings of Kurds. Watching al-Jazeera
What's really on the Arab world's most-watched network? Reporters Without Borders' Mideast and North Africa Portal
Reporters Without Borders tracks free speech, censorship, journalists' working conditions, imprisonments and murders country by country. Arab Press Network
APN, sponsored by the Paris-based World Association of Newspapers, supports the development of a strong, independent press in the Arab world. APN's site is a portal to the latest developments in the Arab newspaper industry. "Voices of the New Arab Public": Interview with Author Marc Lynch
Marc Lynch, author of a popular blog on the Middle East and a professor of political science at George Washington University, talks to Bradford Plumer about his book exploring Arab media, and in particular al-Jazeera and the Iraqi public. From Mother Jones. |
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