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Adham Center Partners
with Oxford's Middle East Centre to Co-Publish Transnational Broadcasting
Studies Journal
The Adham Center is pleased to announce plans to co-publish Transnational
Broadcasting Studies journal with the Middle East Centre (MEC) at
St. Antony's College, Oxford. One of the fruits of this new partnership
will be a hard-copy edition of TBS, which will include a section of
peer-reviewed academic papers.
Over the past six years, the Adham Center's biannual e-journal Transnational
Broadcasting Studies (TBS) has established itself as a vital niche
publication in the ever-expanding field of Arab satellite broadcasting.
As both a resource and a forum for discussion, the journal is greatly
appreciated by scholars and professionals alike. Special features include
interviews, conference reports, and coverage of regional media developments,
as well as book, documentary, and technology reviews
"TBS is unique. It thoroughly dominates its niche," says
Jon Alterman, director of the Middle East Department at the Center for
Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. "It has
no serious competition and is essential and required reading for anyone
interested in satellite TV broadcasting to the Arab world."
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University of Kentucky professor Adel Iskandar calls the journal an
"indispensable resource to all those with a keen interest in Arab
media, providing both credible scholarly research and thoughtful provocative
commentary. It is perhaps the most authoritative locale for information
about media, war, and Arab public opinion on the web."
The editors and publishers of TBS hope to build on its solid reputation
with the establishment of an editorial board of scholars who will referee
a section of academic articles. These articles will appear in the print
edition alongside the usual online content.
Membership of the new editorial board will be announced in TBS 13, which
will go online in December, along with a call for papers. The board
will be chaired by Dr. Walter Armbrust, director of the MEC and Hourani
Fellow in Modern Middle Eastern Studies at St. Antony's College. Armbrust
is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests focus on popular
culture and mass media in the Middle East. He is the author of Mass
Culture and Modernism in Egypt and editor of Mass Mediations:
New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond.
With the new publishing partnership and editorial board, TBS will retain
its well-respected status within the industry while augmenting and broadening
its academic profile, said Adham Director S. Abdallah Schleifer, founder
and publisher of the journal.
"I cannot imagine a more effective way of producing that transformation
than to enter into a co-publishing venture with the Middle East Centre
at St. Antony's College," Schleifer said. "The association
with the MEC and St. Antony's raises the profile of the journal, and
draws high-quality contributions to the refereed section."
The changes to TBS come in response to demand, Schliefer added, especially
from young scholars who are increasingly orienting their research to
"new media" in the Arab and Muslim worlds. The editors welcome
contributions from Middle East area scholars who look at mass media
in general and Arab satellite broadcasting in particular from the perspective
of established academic disciplines such as anthropology, sociology,
history, political science, and language studies. This will be a significant
departure from the primarily Communications Studies profile of the existing
TBS e-journal.
Schleifer anticipates publishing and distributing the first hard-copy
edition of TBS in 2005. Watch www.tbsjournal.com
and www.kpd-online.info for updates
in the coming months.
-Lindsay Wise
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