| Description |
viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Library of modern Middle East studies ; 41 |
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Library of modern Middle East studies ; 41
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| Contents |
1. Women-media interaction in the Middle East : an introductory overview / Naomi Sakr -- 2. The women's press in contemporary Iran : engendering the public sphere / Gholam Khiabany and Annabelle Sreberny -- 3. 'Till I become a minister' : women's rights and women's journalism in pre-1952 Egypt / Sonia Dabbous -- 4. Maghrebi women film-makers and the challenge of modernity : breaking women's silence / Zahia Smail Salhi -- 5. The Orient and its others : women as tools of nationalism in Egyptian political cinema / Lina Khatib -- 6. Multiple literacies, multiple identities : Egyptian rural women's readings of televised literacy campaigns / Sahar Khamis -- 7. Echoes : gender and media challenges in Palestine / Benaz Somiry-Batrawi -- 8. Engagement in the public sphere : women and the press in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni and Mary Ann Tetreault -- 9. Blessings and curses : women and the Internet revolution in the Arab world / Deborah L. Wheeler -- 10. Power, NGOs and Lebanese television : a case study of Al-Manar TV and the Hezbollah Women's Association / Victoria Firmo-Fontan -- 11. Straddling cultures : Arab women journalists at home and abroad / Magda Abu-Fadil |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-240) and index |
| Subject |
Mass media and women -- Middle East.
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Mass media -- Middle East.
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| Author |
Sakr, Naomi.
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| LC no. |
2005295284 |
| ISBN |
1850434859 |
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1850435456 paperback |
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