Arab Spring Interviews (Links)
NPR’s Here and Now: Libya’s Revolution: Made in Qatar? NPR's Here and Now: Al Jazeera…
Columbia Univ. Dart Center Interview
Columbia Univ. Dart Center Interview For Journalism and Trauma (Feb. 1, 2011) A media scholar…
Arab Media Revolution Spreading Change
(Jan. 31,2011) Egyptians have overcome their fear of the police state. It is a seminal moment in…
Crowd-sourcing Tunisia: separating electronic rumor from reality
(Jan. 21, 2011) The Tunisian revolution is another reminder of the power of viral media. But it…
Reporting the Revolution: The New Voice of Arab Journalism
(Jan. 2011) The ouster of Tunisian President Zine El Abdine Ben Ali and the ongoing regional…
Blogging in the Middle East: Not Necessarily Journalistic
By Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda CAIRO – What is a journalist? In Western media circles these…
Inside the Arab Newsroom: Arab Journalists Evaluate Themselves and the Competition
(Vol. 10 No. 2 April 2009) In the years since 9/11, much has been written about the alleged bias…
Border Guards of the “Imagined” Watan: Arab Journalists and the New Arab Consciousness
(Vol. 63 No. 2 Spring 2009) Media plays a fundamental role in the formation of national identity,…
Arab Media Wars: Hamas, Fatah and the Arab Media World
ABU DHABI (Jan. 23, 2009) – Surf the blogs in the Arab world and you find a common theme: the…
Borderless Journalism in Gaza: BBC, CNN-I, and Al Jazeera English offer nuanced coverage of Gaza war
CAIRO (Jan. 21, 2009) – In television terms, Gaza has been déjà vu all over again. U.S.…
The Mission of Arab Journalism: Creating Change in a Time of Turmoil
(Vol. 13 No. 3 July 2008) In the years after 9/11, the Bush administration repeatedly charged…
Misreading the Arab Media
(May 25, 2008) “ARABIC TV does not do our country justice,” President Bush complained in…