Voices of the New Arab Public

Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today

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ID6324658
AuthorsMahmud A Faksh (University of Southern Maine, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume4
Issue4
Pages793-794
Publication date2006-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeREVIEW
Review ofVoices of the new Arab public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East politics today, Marc Lynch, 2006
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592706610475
OpenAlexW2148235572
LanguageEN
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Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, Al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today. By Marc Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 293p. $ 24.50. The book delves into the crucial subject of the new independent media and politics in the Middle East. It examines the changing landscape of Arab public discourse consequent to the proliferation of the new Arab media—al-Jazeera, Abu Dubai TV, al-Manar, al-Arabiya, al-Hurra, and a host of other satellite television stations—over the past decade. The study contends that these new Arab media outlets have freed the dissemination of information from the shackles of state control, challenged old taboos on open discussion, and generated free debate about pertinent political and social issues—culture and identity, political reform, Palestine, Islam and modernity, and Iraq, among others. All this marked the birth of a new diverse Arab public sphere, which ended the previously controlled and muted Arab public discourse and posed a challenge to the future of Arab politics and to U.S. diplomacy

Diplomacy · Islam · Media studies · Middle East · Modernity · Political science · Politics · Public Diplomacy · Public discourse · Public sphere · Sociology · State (computer science · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law

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