Producing the Middle East
An Introduction
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12955562 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Hatim El-Hibri (0009-0009-3538-0174, George Mason University, corresponding author), William Lafi Youmans (0009-0009-7060-6407, George Washington University) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 16 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 111-114 |
| Publication date | 2023-05-12 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1873-9857 • E-ISSN: 1873-9865 |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/18739865-01602001 |
| OpenAlex | W4376645553 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 8 |
Lockman 2016; Szanton 2004). Another common refrain is the geographical presumption that the West is the default starting point for regional positioning.Whether called the 'Middle East and North Africa' (mena), 'Southwest Asia and North Africa' (swana), 'Near East' or any other term, all regional labels appear inadequate or indefensible.The same applies to the Arabic regional formations of al-Mashriq, al-Maghreb and al-Khaleej.Every demarcation creates its own containment and presumed centricity.Bracketing the question of regional terminology, however, we still face the challenge of conceptualizing the regionality of media.This special issue queries two key and interrelated dimensions of regionality: first, how media enact a 'Middle Easternness' that is itself only ever partially stable, and second, how media bear the marks of national, intra-regional and trans-regional dynamics and circulations which exceed and destabilize the analyzable meaning of concepts such as 'region' .Our counter-strategy is to approach 'Middle East media' as a series of interchanges, institutional priorities and felt mutualities-a thicket of uneven and multi-layered encounters-coherent through patterns of media among multiple neighboring countries that have historically grounded ties.We take this approach because the cultural and media landscape is more contingent than what the frame of regionality allows.It is too easy to deploy it for simplified analytical utility.How does this special issue grasp regional
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |