Voices of the New Arab Public

Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today

Bibliographic Data

ID6325400
AuthorsDouglas Kellner (0000-0002-1643-6744, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume6
Issue1
Pages208-209
Publication date2008-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePerspectives on Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1537-5927 • E-ISSN: 1541-0986
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s1537592708080523
OpenAlexW2128075856
LanguageEN
Citations received8

Voices of the New Arab Public: Iraq, al-Jazeera, and Middle East Politics Today. By Marc Lynch. New York: Columbia University Press, 2006. 293p. $25.50 cloth, $18.50 paper. Marc Lynch provides a comprehensive overview of the historical rise of new Arab media and public spheres, in which Arabs attempt to break stereotypes and represent themselves, giving voice to views and ideas that are usually absent in both their state-controlled media and Western media. Building on Jürgen Habermas's (1992) The Structural Transformation of the Bourgeois Public Sphere, which traces the rise of the bourgeois public sphere in eighteenth-century Europe, Lynch examines whether Arab countries are developing liberal public spheres of information, debate, and consensus. Using Habermas, Lynch identifies progressive features of the new Arab public spheres, but also indicates limitations

Bourgeoisie · Media studies · Middle East · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public sphere · Sociology · Globalization and Cultural Identity · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Social Media and Politics

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