Look Who’s Fair And Balanced
(Aug. 22, 2006) The summer of 2006 marked an important milestone for Arab media. Israel and Hezbollah were locked in a bitter conflict that would claim the lives of more than 150 Israelis and an…
Future History: A Glimpse of What U.S. Lebanon Policy Could Spawn
Published on Thursday, August 3, 2006 by CommonDreams.org It is very likely that the world will look back at the summer of 2006 as a seminal moment in Middle East history. We may well be seeing, as…
Open Season on Journalists in the Middle East
The pen may be “mightier than the sword,” but in recent years, the sword has left a trail of spilled ink - and blood. It is time for an international law banning targeted attacks on the media.…
Lebanon: Black and White and Dead All Over
Tuesday 25 July 2006 (28 Jumada al-Thani 1427) Once more, US Marines are on Lebanese soil. Once more, Israeli jets are pounding Beirut and its tanks are in south Lebanon. Once more, the…
Al-Jazeera International, Not Quite Ready for Takeoff
CAIRO (April 27, 2006) - Those new monitors they’re installing in Washington briefing rooms will remain dark for a little while longer: Al-Jazeera International (AJI), the English-language cousin…
U.S. Middle East Policy: Caught between Iraq and the hard guys
February 28, 2006 The visit to the Middle East last week by U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice brought with it another reminder that American Middle East policy is firmly wedged between Iraq…
Why all the fuss now?
16 - 22 February 2006 In a confused world of overlapping cultures, authoritarian and extremist forces often exploit the politics of difference, writes Lawrence Pintak* We just don't get it, do…
Western, Arab Journalists Miles Apart in Cartoon Rift
DOHA, QATAR (Feb. 3, 2006) - It is a row that gives new meaning to the phrase, “publish and be damned.” The convulsion of outrage across the Muslim world over the publication of editorial…
Reporting a revolution: the changing Arab media landscape
Vol. 1 2006 Camera-phone videos of Egyptian police torturing suspects posted on YouTube.com. Prostitution and masturbation discussed on satellite TV. The Iranian president reaching out to Arabs on…
A New Arab Media Rises From the Rubble
CAIRO (Dec. 14, 2005) — In the explosion that killed An Nahar publisher Gebran Tueni in Beirut Monday could be heard the echoes of a new battle being waged in the Middle East. It is a conflict…
Urban Renewal in the Global Village: How Palestine became a Marker of Muslim Identity
(Fall 2005) Abstract A radical restructuring of the global media landscape and the emergence of information ghettos, in which US and Muslim audiences view policy through conflicting prisms, has…
Beyond Media ‘Dialogues’: Time to put away the champagne flutes
Issue 3, Fall 2007 “It’s the condescending attitude that I get tired of,” a top editor at one of the leading Arab satellite news channels recently told me. “I know they mean well; but…
