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Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Sakr
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Description for Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
Paperback. Is today's changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women's advancement in the contemporary Middle East. Editor(s): Sakr, Naomi. Series: Library of Modern Middle East Studies. Num Pages: 256 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FB; JFD; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 141 x 17. Weight in Grams: 298.
Is today's changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women's advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran's women's press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah's TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender ... Read more
Is today's changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women's advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran's women's press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah's TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-layered identities of women and treats media institutions and practices as part of wider power relations in society. By analysing media production, consumption and texts, it reveals where and how gender ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
I. B. Tauris
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Series
Library of Modern Middle East Studies
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781850435457
SKU
V9781850435457
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About Sakr
Naomi Sakr is a Research Associate of the Communication and Media Research Institute at the University of Westminster and a consultant in media and the Middle East. She is the author of Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East (I.B.Tauris), winner of the British Society for Middle East Studies Prize 2003.
Reviews for Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression (Library of Modern Middle East Studies)
AS SEEN ON AL-JAZEERA'S 'AL-KITAB' The Middle East in London Magazine: "admirable and timely study" "a telling commentary on the forces at work behind each successful media enterprise" The Middle East Magazine: "Rich and illuminating"