This book addresses the role that various media have in the shaping and active contestation of particular conflicts and political agendas in the Arab world, and the socio-political dynamics generated in, and through, them. The contributions are interdisciplinary, emerging from media studies, anthropology, religious studies, and political science, and explore both new media and older media forms and formats including the press, satellite television, Facebook, Web.2 technology, posters, and music videos. Topics range across the politics of popular culture, the limitations of press freedoms and the significance of material politics, women scholars’ religious fatwas, the Palestinian visual public sphere, new media and political dissent on the eve of the Egyptian revolution , Hezbollah’s media policy, women’s presence on Arab satellite television, and the uses of Facebook in the Tunisian revolution, among others. The book has chapters by a number of well-known scholars, including Charles Hirschkind, Marwan Kraidy, Amahl Bishara and Olfa Lamloum.
