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BOOK REVIEW | Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions

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Book Title: Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions Editor: Noureddine Miladi Publisher: I.B. Tauris (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) Year of Publication: 2023 Pages: 296 This book review examines Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions, edited by Noureddine …

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Book Review – Media Management and Artificial Intelligence Understanding Media Business Models in the Digital Age

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Connock, A. (2022). Media Management and Artificial Intelligence Understanding Media Business Models in the Digital Age. Routledge. ISBN 9781032100944, 344 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations, Published November 18, 2022, by Routledge. The recently published book authored by Alex Connock scrutinizes contemporary media business models in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and …

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Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: A Book Interview with Dr. Nevine El-Nossery

Issue 36, Summer/Fall 2023 https://doi.org/10.70090/SK23AWRA Dr. Sahar Khamis interviewed Dr. Nevine El-Nossery regarding her new book titled Arab Women’s Revolutionary Art: Between Singularities and Multitudes, which explore the ways women in the contemporary MENA region (Middle East and North Africa) have re-imagined revolutionary discourses—through creativity and collective action—as a means of resistance. Sahar: …

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Screening Middle Eastern TV Dramas: Narratives of Sociopolitical and Cultural Dynamics

Issue 36, Summer/Fall 2023 https://doi.org/10.70090/MB23BRME Book Review: Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aesthetics, Practices Christa Salamandra and Nour Halabi, Eds.  ISBN 9781032027814 190 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations Published June 21, 2023 Routledge Middle Eastern Television Drama: Politics, Aesthetics, Practices, edited by Christa Salamandra and Nour Halabi, scrutinizes the multifaceted narrative …

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Book Review | Fake News in Digital Cultures

Issue 35, winter/spring 2023 https://doi.org/10.70090/FR23FNDC Fake News in Digital Cultures by Rob Cover, Ashleigh Haw, and Jay Daniel (2022), promises “a new approach to understanding disinformation and misinformation in contemporary digital communication.” Studying the digital world from a cultural perspective, the authors propose looking at fake news as a normal byproduct …

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Book Review | Routledge Handbook on Arab Media

First Edition - Edited By Noureddine Miladi, Noha Mellor (Routledge, 2020) The Routledge Handbook on Arab Media is an encyclopedic depiction of the history, roles, models of ownership, and regulations of print, broadcast, and online media in 20 Arab countries out of the 22 Arab countries represented in the Arab …

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Information At War: Hamas vs. the IDF

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/PS20IWHI Excerpted from Information at War: Journalism, Disinformation, and Modern Warfare To be published by Polity Books, summer 2021 The persistent conflict between Israel and Hamas only occasionally attracts much attention beyond its own region, but for the women, men, and children on the ground this …

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90 Day Orientalism: The “Other” Way

The American network TLCs’ 90 Day Fiancé’s casting and storylines have provided its audience with years of entertainment, mostly at the foreign partner’s expense. The reality television industry has grown exponentially throughout the years, thriving on the drama between characters to gain viewership. However, reality television channels, such as Bravo …

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