Digital Middle East

In recent years, the Middle East’s information and communications landscape has changed dramatically. Increasingly, states, businesses, and citizens are capitalizing on the opportunities offered by new information technologies, the fast pace of digital transformations, and enhanced connectivity. These changes are far from turning Middle Eastern nations into network societies, but their impact is significant. The growing adoption of a wide variety of information technologies and new media platforms in everyday life has given rise to complex dynamics that beg for a better understanding. Digital Middle East sheds a critical light on continuing changes that are closely intertwined with the adoption of information and communication technologies in the MENA region. Drawing on case studies from throughout the Middle East, the contributors explore how these digital transformations are playing out in the social, cultural, political, and economic spheres, exposing the various disjunctions and discordances that have marked the advent of the digital Middle East.

Archaeology · Economy · Everyday life · Geography · Information and Communications Technology · Media studies · Middle East · Pace · Political science · Politics · Social media · Sociology · Variety (cybernetics) · Computer Science · History · Socioeconomic Development in MENA · Information society

• A Desert Flower

  Open Access•Norman P Lewis•Data Journalism in the Global South•2019

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• Being Young, Male and Saudi

  Open Access•Mark C Thompson•Being Young, Male and Saudi•2019

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• Media Pluralism and Democratic Consolidation

  Open Access•Fatima El Issawi•The International Journal of…•2021

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• Reckoning with the Legacy of the Digital

  Mohamed Zayani, Joe F Khalil•Middle East Journal of Culture…•2024

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• Digitized Narratives on #MahsaAmini

  Laila Abbas, Menna Elhosary•Women s Studies in Communication•2025

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