Issue 13: Letter from the Publishers

S. Abdallah Schleifer & Walter Armbrust

Losing the Battle for Arab Hearts and Minds

Lieutenant Commander Steve Tatham

US Public Diplomacy: Targeting the Ruled or the Rulers?

Jihad Fakhreddine

Alhurra is at the Heart of the War of Ideas

Walid Phares

Broadcasting and American Public Diplomacy

William A. Rugh

A Second Look at Alhurra: US-Funded Channel Comes of Age on the Front Lines of the 'Battle for Hearts and Minds'

Lindsay Wise

The Other Face of the Video Clip: Sami Yusuf and the Call for al-Fann al-Hadif

Patricia Kubala

Video Venom Must Stop!

Humphrey Davies

Arabic Video Clips Flirt with Desires of Egyptian Youth

Amina Khairy

Culture: The Distinguishing Feature of a People

Amr Khaled

What Would Sayyid Qutb Say? Some Reflections on Video Clips

Walter Armbrust

The Pressures of 24-Hour News

Simon Bucks

To Show or Not to Show? Graphic Images in TV Media

Paul Cochrane

Made For Television Events

Jon Alterman

The Best Hope for Democracy in the Arab World: a Crooning TV "Idol"?

Tyler MacKenzie

Arab Satellite Coverage of US Elections

Usama Najeeb & Lindsay Wise

CNBC Pakistan to Launch May 2005

Humphrey Davies

The Dark Desert Night is Alight: The Impact of War Visuals on Television Viewers and Print

Shems Friedlander

Islamic Satellite Channels and Their Impact on Arab Societies: Iqra Channel-a Case Study

Dr. Abdul Qader Tash

The Proposed Satellite Television Channel of the Organization of the Islamic Conference: A Response to Moral Panic?

Ali Al-Hail

Two Entertainment Issues Preoccupy Egyptian Press in Ramadan

Amina Khairy

Al Jazeera Update: More Datelines from Doha and a Code of Ethics

Abdallah Schleifer

On a Journey with Hamza Yusuf

Maha Shahba

US International Broadcasting Strategies in the Arab World: An analysis of the Broadcasting Board of Governors' strategy from a public communication standpoint

Wendy Feliz Sefsaf

Blending in: Arab Television and the Search for Programming Ideas

Joe F. Khalil

NourSat, the New Satellite in the East

Chris Forrester

Balancing Act: UAE Satellite TV Channels Between National and Pan-Arab Markets

Jihad Fakhreddine

Not Every Picture Tells a Story: A Death in Falluja

Errol Morris

Books in Brief

TBS

Book Essay: War Correspondent Memoirs Personalize Conflict

Ralph D. Berenger

New Generation Camcorders

Michael Murrie

Resource Documents - MMDS and the New Satellite Television Technologies: A Media Explosion in the Arab World

Abdallah Schleifer

Citizenship and Democracy: Participants Discuss Media and Civic Discourse

Naila Hamdy

The Diversity of Arabic Media

TBS

News Xchange 2004, Algarve Keynote Address: His Majesty King Abdallah of Jordan

TBS

Report on the 58th Annual Middle East Institute Conference: "The Use and Limits of Power in the Middle East"

Derek Hoffmann

Arab Women and the New Media: Empowerment or Disempowerment?

Shereen Abou El Naga

On the Role of Media in the Current Transition Phase in Iraq

Iqbal Hassoon al-Qazwini

Arab Satellite Broadcasting: An Alternative to Political Parties?

Kai Hafez

Remarks in Response to Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Ibrahim Helal

Thoughts on Arab Satellite Television, Pan-Arabism, and Freedom of Expression

Saad Eddin Ibrahim

Keynote Address - The Cambridge Arab Media Project: The Media and Political Change in the Arab World

Tessa Litecky

Between Theory and Practice: A Report on the Cambridge Arab Media Project's Conference on "The Media and Political Change in the Arab World"

Tessa Litecky

Conference Report: International Academy for Media Science (IAMS) "Arab Satellites in a Changing World"

Tessa Litecky

Alhurra on the Cairo Street

Summer Said

Interview with Mouafac Harb, Alhurra Executive Vice President and Director of Network News

Lindsay Wise

Ruby: The Making of a Star

Brooke Comer

Interview with Hafiz Al Mirazi

Lindsay Wise

Interview with Ahmad al-Farrag

Lindsay Wise

Interview with Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi

Abdallah Schleifer

Satellite Chronicles: May to November 2004

TBS