While a post-Brexit United Kingdom continues to struggle with xenophobia and anxieties about the Arab/Muslim diaspora, a new hero has emerged in the country’s most popular sport. He’s wildly talented, he’s from Egypt, and he’s Muslim. Known as “The Pharaoh”, “The Egyptian King”, and even the “Egyptian Messi”, 25-year-old Mohamed …

1. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that includes negative statements about religions or beliefs. 2. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that creates any disputation among different religious groups. 3. It is prohibited to broadcast any program that criticizes the state national system. 4. It is prohibited …

Miles, Hugh. Al Jazeera: The Inside Story of the Arab News Channel That is Challenging the West. New York: Grove Press, 2005. Hard cover. 438 pages. ISBN: 0802117899. $16.32. El-Nawawy, Mohammed and Iskandar, Adel. Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism. Cambridge, MA: Westview, 2003. Paperback. …

December 2004 2004 AEJMC Winter Meeting San Antonio, Texas, USA, 3-5 December, 2004 www.aejmc.org/convention Africa Electronic Privacy and Public Voice Symposium Cape Town, South Africa, 6 December, 2004 www.thepublicvoice.org/events/2004_csonetwork.html January 2005 Trans/National Film and Literature: Cultural Production and the Claims of History Tallahassee, Florida, USA, 27-29 January, 2005 http://english3.fsu.edu/~filmlit2005 March …

The Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World, 29-30 September 2004 What I would like to do today is put the issue of the media in some perspective, both analytical and historical. Then I will put some thoughts on the table about the extent …

Moller Centre, Churchill College, Cambridge, UK 28-30 September 2004 Does transnational broadcasting media impact political change in the Arab world, and if so, in what way and to what extent? This question lies at the heart of the ongoing discourse about Arab satellites and their role in opening and defining …

Movenpick Hotel 22 - 24 June 2004 Cairo, Egypt Though thousands of words are spoken and written each year about Arab satellites, scholars have rarely ventured into the means of analyzing their conceptual structures to ask the stakeholders about their views on the pressing socio-economic and political issues. Moreover, while …

The 1991 war in Iraq propelled an American satellite channel, known colloquially as the Chicken News Network and by its initials, CNN, into a global news power. In the second  Iraq war, another broadcaster, Al-Jazeera, became famous - or infamous, depending on your point of view. Most Americans know Al-Jazeera for …