Naomi Sakr
Biographic Data
| ID | 1074185 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Sakr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Sakr |
| SIGNATURE | SAKR N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Westminster |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6733-5484 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Political Economy of Egyptian Media: Business and Military Elite Power and Communication after 2011, by Maher Hamoud
Edgy in the 'right' way: Meeting pent-up demand for youth-oriented local content on Saudi TV
Despite accounting for some 60% of the population, Saudi Arabia's under-30s spent a long time not seeing themselves on screen, except in comedy, satire and drama they made themselves and circulated on YouTube. Things have changed spectacularly under the transformational Vision 2030 project spearheaded by the kingdom's de facto ruler, Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, launched in 2016 and aimed first and foremost at youth. Drawing on insights from…
The National Imaginarium: A History of Egyptian Filmmaking , by Magdy Mounir El-Shammaa
Children’s documentaries: Distance and ethics in European storytelling about the wider world
The material challenges of funding, commissioning and distribution that are well known to inhibit production of children’s factual content about other countries and cultures operate in parallel with challenges arising from the moral responsibilities inherent in what Roger Silverstone called “the problem of proper distance”. By that he signified a “moral category” requiring filmmakers to provide “context as well as imagination” and be willing to “…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Egypt
Curation as methodological enhancement in researching production cultures behind screen content about displaced children in Europe
This paper starts from the premise that research into how producers negotiate issues of diversity and multicultural content in Europe is rare and mostly relies on interviews and documents, and furthermore work on understanding those negotiation processes in relation to children’s screen content is even rarer. The article seeks to reflect critically on an alternative hybrid research method, which aims to open up a space for dialogue about producti…
Growing PSM organically: International initiatives to support national conversations in new contexts
With an international debate under way about how to resolve the financial and political crisis affecting independent media everywhere, can international efforts enhance the prospects for promoting the principles of public service media (PSM) in national contexts where they have never been applied? Informed by discussions that contributed to a CAMRI Policy Brief published in March 2020, recommending incremental, non-media-centric approaches to lay…
Smarter, Stronger, Kinder’
Heralding the imminent screening of a new series of Iftah ya Simsim (Open Sesame) for pre-schoolers on Gulf television in 2015, the managing director of the show’s production company described it as the culmination of ‘passion and commitment’ on the part of ‘dozens of individuals across international boundaries’ over four years. Joint efforts of individuals and institutions on that scale imply shared objectives. The publicly declared objective of…
Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education
Who analyses children's screen content and media use in Arab countries, and with what results? Children, defined internationally as under-18s, account for some 40 per cent of Arab populations and the proportion of under-fives is correspondingly large. Yet studies of children's media and child audiences in the region are as scarce as truly popular locally produced media content aimed at children. At the very time when conflict and uncertainty in k…
Provision, protection or participation? Approaches to regulating children's television in Arab countries
Free-to-air channels for Arabic-speaking children expanded alongside the emergence of a few Arab national regulatory agencies with varying degrees of independence from government and powers that could potentially influence children's channels. Even so, the rationales that inform production and acquisition of children's screen content in the region remain far from transparent, beyond rhetoric about protecting children from material that 'breaches …
Children’s access to beneficial information in Arab states: Implementation of Article 17 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child in Egypt, Morocco and the United Arab Emirates
In theory, the multiple platforms and transnational nature of digital media, along with a related proliferation of diverse forms of content, make it easier for children’s right to access socially and culturally beneficial information and material to be realised, as required by Article 17 of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Drawing on data collected during research on children’s screen content in the Arab world, combined with scrutiny…
From Experiencing Life to Life Experiences: Location Shooting Practices in Chinese and Taiwanese New Wave Cinemas
When the ruling families of two oil-rich Arab emirates decided in the 2000s to put money into producing satellite television content for Arabic-speaking children, one of their first steps in the process was to hire foreign executives. Preparing in 2002 for the 2005 launch of Al-Jazeera Children’s Channel (JCC), based in Qatar, Shaikha Moza bint Nasser al-Missned, head of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development and wi…
Arab Media Moguls
Transformations in the Arab media landscape are a key element in the regional dynamics of political change. Where do the private owners of Arab media outlets stand on the scene? What part, if any, have they played in weakening dictatorships, countering sectarianism and political polarisation, and reforming business practices in the Arab world? Arab Media Moguls charts the rise of some leading investors and entrepreneurs in Arab media, examining t…
 We Cannot Let it Looseâ
Transformations in Egyptian Journalism
Egypt’s revolutionary uprising in 2011 raised important questions about the kind of journalism that would be viable in the country’s changing political dynamics. Suddenly the output of bloggers, online radio and social media news operations, which had all formed part of the groundswell of action against dictatorship and repression, posed an explicit challenge to journalists in state-run and commercial media companies who were more directly subjec…
Social Media, Television Talk Shows, and Political Change in Egypt
At least two pivotal moments in Egypt’s 2011 uprising took place on talk shows on the country’s private satellite television channels. In seeking to understand how these shows evolved, under authoritarian rule, to the point where they could host such moments, this article explores the impact of online media on their evolution. Taking account of studies into online–offline media interaction in democratic and nondemocratic settings, the research tr…
Media, Migration and Public Opinion: Myths, Prejudices and the Challenge of Attaining Mutual Understanding between Europe and North Africa
Media, Migration and Public Opinion: Myths, Prejudices and the Challenge of Attaining Mutual Understanding between Europe and North Africa." Mediterranean Politics, 17(2), pp. 259–260
Media Reform in Jordan: The stop–go transition
Enriching or Impoverishing Discourse on Rights? Talk about Freedom of Expression on Arab Television
There is more to the denial of freedom of expression than outright censorship. The right to freedom of expression is interdependent with, and indivisible from, other rights guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To discuss freedom of expression narrowly as if it were self-contained, and to conceal the issues, processes, and conflicts implicit in its achievement, can be seen as a hegemonic strategy that serves relations of dom…
Dynamics of Development in Arab Broadcasting
(Product of workshop no. 13 at the MRM 2008)
News, Transparency and the Effectiveness of Reporting From Inside Arab Dictatorships
Contradictions in Egyptian media laws, whereby draconian emergency censorship powers coexist with apparently lively media output, seriously affect the content of foreign press reporting from Cairo. Taking account of theories about the way news production norms in free societies marginalize insights into the political structures of societies that are not free, this article examines treatment of struggles that took place in Egypt in 2008 over the l…
Diversity and diaspora: Arab communities and satellite communication in Europe
Since the late 1990s, Europe's satellite television landscape has been transformed, with European populations of non-European heritage increasingly watching television channels in their own languages. After surveying recent academic work on diasporic communication, multiculturalism and representation, this article examines examples of Euro-Arab interaction over Arabic-language satellite channels in the period 2003—6, exploring the evolving dynami…
Women and Media in Saudi Arabia: Rhetoric, Reductionism and Realities
Contradictions inherent in restrictions on women in Saudi Arabia have been shown to create space for renegotiation of women's personal and political status in the kingdom. The Saudi media offer a window onto this renegotiation process, not because there is any automatic correlation between women's visibility in the media and their status in other areas of public life, but because analysis of media institutions can shed light on the contingent and…
Arab Television Today
There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. Al-Jazeera is of course only one player among a still-growing throng of satellite channels, which now include private terrestrial stations in some Arab states. It is an industry urgently ne…
Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in a state of flux. It is therefore crucial to be able to discuss political initiatives in the region in the light of media developments. This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practice…
Social Media, Television Talk Shows, and Political Change in Egypt
At least two pivotal moments in Egypt’s 2011 uprising took place on talk shows on the country’s private satellite television channels. In seeking to understand how these shows evolved, under authoritarian rule, to the point where they could host such moments, this article explores the impact of online media on their evolution. Taking account of studies into online–offline media interaction in democratic and nondemocratic settings, the research tr…
Women and Media in Saudi Arabia: Rhetoric, Reductionism and Realities
Contradictions inherent in restrictions on women in Saudi Arabia have been shown to create space for renegotiation of women's personal and political status in the kingdom. The Saudi media offer a window onto this renegotiation process, not because there is any automatic correlation between women's visibility in the media and their status in other areas of public life, but because analysis of media institutions can shed light on the contingent and…
Foreign Support for Media Freedom Advocacy in the Arab Mediterranean: Globalization from Above or Below
Recent structural changes to the Arab audio-visual media scene have encouraged an increasing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in media freedom advocacy to launch initiatives aimed at making Arab broadcast media more pluralistic and boosting the independence and professionalism of broadcast journalists. Some interventions follow a top-down formula, sidestepping existing institutions that may be undemocratic, whereas others …
Seen and Starting to Be Heard: Women and the Arab Media in a Decade of Change
Introduction WOMEN’S unequal access to the media is a universal concern, because negative stereotyping of women and lack of promotion for female editorial staff not only reflect wider disadvantages facing women but also help to sustain and reproduce them. This dynamic led to the inclusion of representation in and through the media and new communication technologies as one of 12 “critical areas of concern” in the Beijing Platform for Action, the a…
Contested Blueprints for Egypt's Satellite Channels: Regrouping the Options by Redefining the Debate
With Arab-owned satellite channels of all types now broadcasting in all directions, from inside and outside the Arab world, state-centric approaches are no longer valid for analysing power relations in this field. Combining Susan Strange's theory of structural power with Robert Cox's model of world hegemony, developed from the work of Antonio Gramsci, this article proposes an alternative perspective from which to view the organizational formulae …
Smarter, Stronger, Kinder’
Heralding the imminent screening of a new series of Iftah ya Simsim (Open Sesame) for pre-schoolers on Gulf television in 2015, the managing director of the show’s production company described it as the culmination of ‘passion and commitment’ on the part of ‘dozens of individuals across international boundaries’ over four years. Joint efforts of individuals and institutions on that scale imply shared objectives. The publicly declared objective of…
News, Transparency and the Effectiveness of Reporting From Inside Arab Dictatorships
Contradictions in Egyptian media laws, whereby draconian emergency censorship powers coexist with apparently lively media output, seriously affect the content of foreign press reporting from Cairo. Taking account of theories about the way news production norms in free societies marginalize insights into the political structures of societies that are not free, this article examines treatment of struggles that took place in Egypt in 2008 over the l…
Diversity and diaspora: Arab communities and satellite communication in Europe
Since the late 1990s, Europe's satellite television landscape has been transformed, with European populations of non-European heritage increasingly watching television channels in their own languages. After surveying recent academic work on diasporic communication, multiculturalism and representation, this article examines examples of Euro-Arab interaction over Arabic-language satellite channels in the period 2003—6, exploring the evolving dynami…
Reflections on the Mana ̄ma Spring: Research Questions Arising from the Promise of Political Liberalization in Bahrain
Media and political conflict: News from the Middle East
Journal Article Media and political conflict: news from the Middle East Get access Media and political conflict: news from the Middle East. By Gadi Wolfsfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 255pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 521 58045 5. Pb.: £14.95; ISBN 0 521 58967 3. Naomi Sakr Naomi Sakr Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 565–566, https:/…
The Gaza Strip: The political economy of de-development
Journal Article The Gaza Strip: the political economy of de-development Get access The Gaza Strip: the political economy of de-development. By Sarah Roy. Washington DC: Institute for Palestine Studies. 1995. 375pp. Index. Pb.: £12.95. ISBN 088728 261 x. Naomi Sakr Naomi Sakr Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 72, Issue 4, October 1996, Pages 849–850, https://doi.org/10.2307/26242…
The Middle East in global change: The politics and economics of interdependence versus fragmentation
Journal Article The Middle East in global change: the politics and economics of interdependence versus fragmentation Get access The Middle East in global change: the politics and economics of interdependence versus fragmentation. Edited by Laura Guazzone. London: Macmillan. 1997. 285pp. Index. £45.00. ISBN0 333 67079 5. Naomi Sakr Naomi Sakr 1Economist Intelligence Unit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inte…
The Middle East into the twenty-first century
Journal Article The Middle East into the twenty-first century Get access The Middle East into the twenty-first century. By Chibli Mallat. Reading, Berks: Ithaca. 1996. 304pp. Index. £35.00. ISBN 0 86372 205 9. Naomi Sakr Naomi Sakr 1Economist Intelligence Unit Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 1, January 1997, Pages 192–193, https://doi.org/10.2307/2623605 Published: 0…
Media and political conflict: News from the Middle East
Journal Article Media and political conflict: news from the Middle East Get access Media and political conflict: news from the Middle East. By Gadi Wolfsfeld. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1997. 255pp. Index. £40.00; ISBN 0 521 58045 5. Pb.: £14.95; ISBN 0 521 58967 3. Naomi Sakr Naomi Sakr Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 3, July 1997, Pages 565–566, https:/…
Satellite Television and Development in the Middle East
Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East
In transcending territorial boundaries, satellite television has the potential to liberate viewers from government controls on national media. Why is this potential liberation yet to be fully realized in the Middle East? This dynamic book explores the development through the 1990s into the 21st century of cross-border television in the Middle East, exploring issues at the heart of the international political economy of communication. With much at…
Reflections on the Mana ̄ma Spring: Research Questions Arising from the Promise of Political Liberalization in Bahrain
Contested Blueprints for Egypt's Satellite Channels: Regrouping the Options by Redefining the Debate
With Arab-owned satellite channels of all types now broadcasting in all directions, from inside and outside the Arab world, state-centric approaches are no longer valid for analysing power relations in this field. Combining Susan Strange's theory of structural power with Robert Cox's model of world hegemony, developed from the work of Antonio Gramsci, this article proposes an alternative perspective from which to view the organizational formulae …
Seen and Starting to Be Heard: Women and the Arab Media in a Decade of Change
Introduction WOMEN’S unequal access to the media is a universal concern, because negative stereotyping of women and lack of promotion for female editorial staff not only reflect wider disadvantages facing women but also help to sustain and reproduce them. This dynamic led to the inclusion of representation in and through the media and new communication technologies as one of 12 “critical areas of concern” in the Beijing Platform for Action, the a…
Freedom of Expression, Accountability and Development in the Arab Region
Mechanisms for ensuring government transparency and accountability have yet to become established in the Arab region, where oil rents and security rents have traditionally enabled governments to provide jobs and services without having to rely heavily, if at all, on raising revenue through personal income tax on citizens. Yet various forms of resource mobilization, which will be needed in future, are likely to require a greater degree of accounta…
Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression
Is today’s changing media landscape in the Middle East empowering women? This is the first book to address the dynamics of media ecology and women’s advancement in the contemporary Middle East. The book spans both the region and media forms, from Iran’s women’s press, via Maghrebi women filmmakers and Egyptian political films, Palestinian TV and Hezbollah’s TV station, Al-Manar. It takes as its starting point the diverse experiencees and multi-la…
Friend or foe? Dependency theory and women's media activism in the Arab Middle East
The second half of the 1990s saw an upsurge everywhere in women's activism to improve their access to, and representation in, the media. Intensified activity by women both produced and was mandated
UN Analysis of Aggregate Arab ‘Knowledge Deficit’
Foreign Support for Media Freedom Advocacy in the Arab Mediterranean: Globalization from Above or Below
Recent structural changes to the Arab audio-visual media scene have encouraged an increasing number of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) involved in media freedom advocacy to launch initiatives aimed at making Arab broadcast media more pluralistic and boosting the independence and professionalism of broadcast journalists. Some interventions follow a top-down formula, sidestepping existing institutions that may be undemocratic, whereas others …
Arab Television Today
There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab television. Political and social upheavals in this central but unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them. Al-Jazeera is of course only one player among a still-growing throng of satellite channels, which now include private terrestrial stations in some Arab states. It is an industry urgently ne…
Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life
People are on the move across the Arab world, organizing politically in new ways. The Arab media have also undergone a transformation and are still in a state of flux. It is therefore crucial to be able to discuss political initiatives in the region in the light of media developments. This authoritative book answers key questions about the connections between media and political change in the Arab world. Using research into, for example, practice…
Diversity and diaspora: Arab communities and satellite communication in Europe
Since the late 1990s, Europe's satellite television landscape has been transformed, with European populations of non-European heritage increasingly watching television channels in their own languages. After surveying recent academic work on diasporic communication, multiculturalism and representation, this article examines examples of Euro-Arab interaction over Arabic-language satellite channels in the period 2003—6, exploring the evolving dynami…
Women and Media in Saudi Arabia: Rhetoric, Reductionism and Realities
Contradictions inherent in restrictions on women in Saudi Arabia have been shown to create space for renegotiation of women's personal and political status in the kingdom. The Saudi media offer a window onto this renegotiation process, not because there is any automatic correlation between women's visibility in the media and their status in other areas of public life, but because analysis of media institutions can shed light on the contingent and…
Media Reform in Jordan: The stop–go transition
Enriching or Impoverishing Discourse on Rights? Talk about Freedom of Expression on Arab Television
There is more to the denial of freedom of expression than outright censorship. The right to freedom of expression is interdependent with, and indivisible from, other rights guaranteed under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. To discuss freedom of expression narrowly as if it were self-contained, and to conceal the issues, processes, and conflicts implicit in its achievement, can be seen as a hegemonic strategy that serves relations of dom…
Dynamics of Development in Arab Broadcasting
(Product of workshop no. 13 at the MRM 2008)
News, Transparency and the Effectiveness of Reporting From Inside Arab Dictatorships
Contradictions in Egyptian media laws, whereby draconian emergency censorship powers coexist with apparently lively media output, seriously affect the content of foreign press reporting from Cairo. Taking account of theories about the way news production norms in free societies marginalize insights into the political structures of societies that are not free, this article examines treatment of struggles that took place in Egypt in 2008 over the l…
Social Media, Television Talk Shows, and Political Change in Egypt
At least two pivotal moments in Egypt’s 2011 uprising took place on talk shows on the country’s private satellite television channels. In seeking to understand how these shows evolved, under authoritarian rule, to the point where they could host such moments, this article explores the impact of online media on their evolution. Taking account of studies into online–offline media interaction in democratic and nondemocratic settings, the research tr…
Media, Migration and Public Opinion: Myths, Prejudices and the Challenge of Attaining Mutual Understanding between Europe and North Africa
Media, Migration and Public Opinion: Myths, Prejudices and the Challenge of Attaining Mutual Understanding between Europe and North Africa." Mediterranean Politics, 17(2), pp. 259–260
 We Cannot Let it Looseâ
Political science (31 works) · Law (26 works) · Sociology (26 works) · Politics (21 works) · Media studies (18 works) · Law (17 works) · Computer Science (12 works) · Public relations (10 works) · Political economy (9 works) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (9 works)