Laura James, Author at Arab Media & Society

Laura James

Laura James monitors Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait and Oman for the Economist Intelligence Unit, based in London. She completed her doctorate at the University of Oxford, where she was a college Lecturer at St. Edward's Hall teaching. Middle East Politics and International Relations to undergraduates. She has also worked as a consultant for a UN agency in Rome. Her book, Nasser at War: Arab Images of the Enemy, will be published by Palgrave Macmillan in October 2006.

Whose Voice? Nasser, the Arabs, and ‘Sawt al-Arab’ Radio

Research Article

On July 4, 1953, Cairo Radio first broadcast a half-hour radio programme called The Voice of the Arabs. It included a short statement by the ostensible leader of Egypt’s recent July Revolution, General Mohammed Naguib, garnished with a great deal of anti-colonialist rhetoric.(1) The new programme was perfectly timed to take …

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Whose Voice? Nasser, the Arabs, and ‘Sawt al-Arab’ Radio

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