Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture

Prologue: Online Activism and the Arab Uprisings: Focus on the Tunisian

Introduction

Part I: On Media Activism and Political Involvement

1. Revisiting Cyberactivism Six Years after the Arab Spring: Potentials, Limitations and Future Prospects

2. Constructing an Alternative Public Sphere: Social Media & Their Cultural Meaning in Iran

3. You've Come a Long Way Baby: Personal/Political Empowerment in Kuwaiti/Arab Women's New Media Practices

Part II: On Governmental and non-Governmental Media Organisations

4. Location & Media Production in the Middle East: A Case Study of Media Cities

5. How to Prevent a Mobilization: Assad & the Electronic War

Part III: Media, Culture and Language in the Middle East

7. Winning Hearts and Minds through Soft Power: The Case of Turkish Soap Operas in the Middle East

8. Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies

9. Protest Poetry On- and Offline: Trans-Regional Interactions in the Arabian Gulf: An Example from Bahrain

10. Arabic in a Time of Revolution: Sociolinguistic Notes from Egypt