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  • Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa

    Edited by Dina Matar ...
    Series series Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa
    A decade on from the Arab uprisings, debates continue to reiterate exceptionalist discourses about the region and its peoples which tend to deny individual agency. They also neglect long collective histories of mediated political cultures that have emerged within colonial and post-colonial structures and outside peripheries of formal power and politics. This book problematizes the relationship ... Read more

    $120.99 CAD

  • Producing Palestine

    The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media

    Edited by Dina Matar, Helga Tawil-Souri ...
    Series series SOAS Palestine Studies
    Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palestinians. Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • The Hizbullah Phenomenon

    Politics and Communication

    by Lina Khatib, Dina Matar, Atef Alshaer ...
    Hizbullah is not only a leading political actor in Lebanon and a dynamic force in the Middle East, but it is also distinguished by a sophisticated communication strategy. From relatively humble beginnings in the 1980s, Hizbullah's political clout and its public perception have followed an upward trajectory, thanks to a political programme that blends military, social, economic and religious ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD

  • Narrating Conflict in the Middle East

    Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine

    by Dina Matar, Zahera Harb ...
    The term 'conflict' has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that to consider conflict within a singular concept disables a coherent analysis of the constituent factors ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

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  • Media, Culture and Society in Iran

    Living with Globalization and the Islamic State

    Edited by Mehdi Semati ...
    Series series Iranian Studies
    By exploring topics such as the Internet, print press, advertising, satellite television, video, rock music, literature, cinema, gender, religious intellectuals, and secularism, this unique and wide-ranging volume explains Iran as a complex society that has successfully managed to negotiate and embody the tensions of tradition and modernity, democracy and theocracy, isolation and globalization, ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • The Media World of ISIS

    Edited by Michael Krona, Rosemary Pennington ...
    This anthology explores how ISIS used media and propaganda, shedding light on the characteristics, mission, and tactics of its messaging.From efficient instructions on how to kill civilians to horrifying videos of beheadings, no terrorist organization has more comprehensively weaponized social media than ISIS. Its strategic, multiplatformed campaign is so effective that it has ensured global news ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Islamic Veil

    A Beginner's Guide

    by Elizabeth M. Bucar ...
    Series series Beginner's Guides
    Banned in public institutions in France and Turkey, mandatory in Saudi Arabia and Iran, no other item of clothing incites such furious reactions. The Islamic veil – a catch-all term that encompasses everything from a simple headscarf to the all-covering burqa – has, over the past decade, become a heated battleground for debates on everything from women’s rights to multiculturalism.Elizabeth Bucar ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Visual Culture in the Modern Middle East

    Edited by Christiane Gruber, Sune Haugbolle ...
    A collection of essays examining the role and power of images from a wide variety of media in today's Middle Eastern societies.This timely book examines the power and role of the image in modern Middle Eastern societies. The essays explore the role and function of image making to highlight the ways in which the images "speak" and what visual languages mean for the construction of Islamic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Translating Egypt's Revolution

    The Language of Tahrir

    Edited by Samia Mehrez ...
    This unique interdisciplinary collective project is the culmination of research and translation work conducted by American University in Cairo students of different cultural and linguistic backgrounds who continue to witness Egypt's ongoing revolution. This historic event has produced an unprecedented proliferation of political and cultural documents and materials, whether written, oral, or visual ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Women Claim Islam

    Creating Islamic Feminism Through Literature

    by Miriam Cooke ...
    This provocative collection addresses the ways in which Arab women writers are using Islam to empower themselves, and theorizes the conditions that have made the appearance of these new voices possible. ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • On Shifting Ground

    Muslim Women in the Global Era

    Edited by Fereshteh Nouraie-Simone ...
    "Thoughtful, highly relevant, and frequently brilliant essays on the contemporary ideas, organization, activities, and agency of Muslim women" (Nikki Keddie, author of Women in the Middle East: Past and Present).The world has drastically changed in recent years due to armed conflict, economic issues, and cultural revolutions both positive and negative. Nowhere have those changes been felt more ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Islam Is a Foreign Country

    American Muslims and the Global Crisis of Authority

    by Zareena Grewal ...
    Series Book 22 - Nation of Nations
    "A moving and incisive account of Muslim immigrant experiences in the United States. It reveals a dimension of American life seldom genuinely understood." —Saba Mahmood, author of Politics of PietyIn Islam Is a Foreign Country, Zareena Grewal explores some of the most pressing debates about and among American Muslims: What does it mean to be Muslim and American? Who has the authority to speak for ... Read more

    $26.39 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus