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“zahera harb”

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  • Channels of Resistance in Lebanon

    Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media

    by Zahera Harb ...
    The South Lebanon conflict saw two decades of sustained resistance by the Lebanese to the Israeli occupation. The Lebanese media's role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support of the Lebanese resistance in South Lebanon. This book investigates the culture and performance of ... Read more

    $37.99 CAD

  • Reporting the Middle East

    The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century

    Edited by Zahera Harb ...
    How do the media cover the Middle East? Through a country-by-country approach, this book provides detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab World. Each chapter provides an overview of a country, including the political context, relationships to international politics and the key elements relating to the place as covered in Western media. The authors explore how the media can ... Read more

    $37.99 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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    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

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  • Islamism and Cultural Expression in the Arab World

    Edited by Abir Hamdar, Lindsey Moore ...
    Series series Durham Modern Middle East and Islamic World Series
    Whereas most studies of Islamism focus on politics and religious ideology, this book analyses the ways in which Islamism in the Arab world is defined, reflected, transmitted and contested in a variety of creative and other cultural forms. It covers a range of contexts of production and reception, from the early twentieth century to the present, and with reference to cultural production in and/or ... Read more

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  • A Theory of ISIS

    Political Violence and the Transformation of the Global Order

    by Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou ...
    The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria has been the subject of intense scrutiny in the West. Considered by many to be the most dangerous terrorist organisation in the world, it has become shrouded in numerous myths and narratives, many emanating from the US, which often fail to grasp its true nature.Against these narratives, Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou presents a bold new theory of ISIS. By ... Read more

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  • What is Iran?

    Domestic Politics and International Relations in Five Musical Pieces

    by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam ...
    Series Book 15 - The Global Middle East
    What is Iran? What are its domestic politics? Its history? Its international relations? Here, Arshin Adib-Moghaddam sheds fresh light on these questions, offering a general introduction to everything there is to know about this country. Uniquely, he uses musical pieces as a way to offer a holistic understanding of the full spectrum of Iranian affairs. As a result, even the general reader is ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Circuits of Faith

    Migration, Education, and the Wahhabi Mission

    by Michael Farquhar ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
    The Islamic University of Medina was established by the Saudi state in 1961 to provide religious instruction primarily to foreign students. Students would come to Medina for religious education and were then expected to act as missionaries, promoting an understanding of Islam in line with the core tenets of Wahhabism. By the early 2000s, more than 11,000 young men from across the globe had ... Read more

    $65.99 CAD

  • Guardians of God

    Inside the Religious Mind of the Pakistani Taliban

    by Mona Kanwal Sheikh ...
    This book is an account of the emergence and key events related to the origin and expansion of Pakistani Taliban since 2001, with a focus on the role of religion in their actions, policies and worldviews. The author brings to light rare insight into the ideological basis of Pakistani Taliban, drawing upon first-hand research comprising participant observation, interviews, content analysis of ... Read more

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  • Young Islam

    The New Politics of Religion in Morocco and the Arab World

    by Avi Max Spiegel ...
    Series series Princeton Studies in Muslim Politics
    How the competition for young recruits is creating rivalries among Islamists todayToday, two-thirds of all Arab Muslims are under the age of thirty. Young Islam takes readers inside the evolving competition for their support—a competition not simply between Islamism and the secular world, but between different and often conflicting visions of Islam itself.Drawing on extensive ethnographic research ... Read more

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  • What's Really Wrong with the Middle East

    by Brian Whitaker ...
    The problems in the Middle East run deeper than dictatorship. Inspired by the popular uprising that overthrew Tunisia's president, Arabs across the Middle East are demanding change. But achieving real freedom will involve more than the removal of a few dictators. Looking beyond the turmoil reported on our TV screens, Guardian journalist Brian Whitaker examines the 'freedom deficit' that affects ... Read more

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  • The Arab Spring

    The End of Postcolonialism

    by Hamid Dabashi ...
    This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East.In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven by a 'Delayed Defiance' - a point of rebellion against domestic tyranny and globalized disempowerment ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD