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…
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,…
Obama starts well with Muslims but must do more
CAIRO (March 16, 2009) -- Perceptions are a critical piece of the foreign policy matrix. From the…
The Murrow Option for U.S. Public Diplomacy
By Lawrence Pintak and William Rugh CAIRO (Feb. 17, 2009): Almost 50 years ago, President John F.…
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.…
Lessons worth learning: The Indonesian model
Issue 6, Fall 2008 What a difference a few thousand miles makes. I spent the summer in Indonesia,…
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…
Middle East Heading for a New Cold War?
CAIRO, 20 January 2007 — Bush administration efforts to forge a US-Arab alliance against Iran…
Cairo Ignores U.S. Request to Pull Plug on Jihadi TV in Iraq
(Jan. 4, 2007) Sunni-Shia power politics and U.S.-Egyptian relations are at the center of a…
America’s Media Bubble
CAIRO (Oct. 19, 2006) — The United States no longer controls the script. That's a reality…
The Middle East: It’s all just too darned complicated
First Published: October 2, 2006 Memo: To Arabs and Muslims Re: The Middle East It’s your own…
