Consumption Studies
Broadening the discourse about martyrdom television programming
A Mickey Mouse lookalike character on Hamas’s al-Aqsa network generated a storm of controversy in Western media in 2007 – but were Palestinian kids actually tuning in? Yael Warshel surveys television viewing among Palestinian youth.
Arab youth, television and “affluenza”
Does high television viewing correlate with more materialistic values in the Arab World? Recent survey data suggest not, says Mark Harmon.
I want my MTV
It was only a matter of time before the world’s biggest name in the music and youth entertainment industry would tap into the consumer hungry, but conservative Middle East, writes Contributing Editor Dana El Baltaji
