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 TBS
Journal Issues First Print Edition, Distributed by AUC Press
Transnational Broadcasting Studies is taking an historic
step. After six years and thirteen electronic issues, Transnational
Broadcasting Studies (TBS) is publishing in two formats for the
first time -- one online, the other printed.
The online edition (www.tbsjournal.com)
was published in May, followed a month later by the print edition, which
contains a selection of articles appearing in the online edition, plus
peer-reviewed academic papers. The print edition is available through
distributor AUC Press from mid-June, 2005.
TBS leads with a special section on Culture Wars: The Arabic Music
Video Controversy, which includes articles by anthropologist of
popular culture Walter Armbrust (chairman of TBS's editorial board),
Patricia Kubala, Amina Khairy, and Humphrey Davies. TBS is also particularly
pleased to provide popular Islamic preacher Amr Khaled's call for cultural
authenticity, and Brooke Comer's feature story and interview with Ruby,
the singer, dancer, and actress whose unabashedly sensual video clips
are as enthusiastically condemned by cultural watchdogs as they are
awaited by the public.
TBS also revisits the leaders among the Arab satellite channels in
S. Abdallah Schleifer's dialogue with Al Arabiya's general manager Abdul
Rahman Al-Rashed and his reports on major developments there and at
Al Jazeera. Also writing in this section are Hugh Miles, author of Al
Jazeera: How Arab TV News Challenged the World and now a TBS contributing
editor, plus Jon Alterman on Al Jazeera's English-language channel and
Michael Hudson on "Washington vs. Al Jazeera."
Another special section, Hearts, Minds, and the Remote Control:
Is American Media Diplomacy Working? focuses on US public diplomacy
efforts in the Arab World. Lindsay Wise interviews Mouafac Harb, executive
chairman of Alhurra and travels to the station's studios in Springfield
VA to take a look, more than a year after the US-sponsored station's
launch. This section also includes a swingeing critique of such efforts
by William Rugh, a defense of Alhurra by Walid Phares, Jihad Fakhreddine's
take on US public diplomacy, and an analysis of the military's failure
to communicate effectively to the Arab media during the 2003 Iraq War
by Lt. Commander Steve Tatham, Royal Navy spokesman for military operations
during the conflict.
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And elsewhere in this bumper issue you'll find Magda Abu-Fadil on events
in Lebanon, Joel Campagna on censorship, Noha El-Hennawy on women preachers,
Joe Khalil on free-to-air channels, Charles Levinson on Arab TV coverage
of political campaigns, Marc Lynch on the democratizing power of Arab
satellite TV, William Merrifield on Kurdish TV, Tarek Sabry on mental
emigration and globalization, Summer Said on Alhurra, Naomi Sakr on
Arab satellites and the state, Maha Shahba on Islamic channel Iqra,
Stacy Philbrick Yadav on the Al-Manar ban, and Brian Whitaker on MEMRI.
TBS's online edition also includes the conference reports, book reviews
(edited by Ralph D. Berenger), Hamid Ouddane's Technical Review, Resource
Documents (featuring the Egyptian Radio and Television Union's Code
of Conduct), and the Satellite Chronicles section, now dramatically
expanded thanks to the cooperation of BBC Monitoring.
TBS also is pleased to be able to reproduce, through special agreement,
subscriber-only reports on "The Credibility of Satellite News Channels
in Greater Cairo," "The Credibility of Satellite News Channels
in Jordan," and "Jordan Media City Update" from the Amman-based
Arab Advisors Group, which has emerged as an important professional
resource for both the broadcasting and telecommunications industries.
-Adham Online Staff
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