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This volume of TBS examines
the hottest trends and controversies involving satellite TV in the Arab
and Muslim worlds. Titled Media
on the Front Lines: Arab Satellite TV in Iraq, this edition
includes an overview of the current Iraqi media landscape by Paul
Cochrane, as well as interviews with Nabil Khatib,
executive editor of Al Arabiya, and Brigadier General Mark T.
Kimmitt, the deputy director for Strategy and Plans, US Central
Command. It also features a wide range of essays on other media-related
topics, including TBS senior editor Lawrence Pintak’s
report from Dubai and Doha on the search for an Arab media ‘Utopia,’
Hugh Miles on the infamous ‘Al Jazeera Memo,’
Andrew Exum on the Arabic-language media’s role
in the Danish cartoon crisis, and Marlin Dick on the
issue of censorship in the case of Behind Bars, a recent Syrian
soap opera. Other contributors include Alan L. Heil, Jr.
on the US’s vanishing Voice of America radio program, Christian
Pond on Muslim pop singer Sami Yusuf and the search for Islamic
authenticity, Habib Battah on why SMS is stoking the
next Arab TV revolution, Claudia Gazzini on the current
state of Libyan television, Laura M. James on Nasser’s
Voice of the Arabs radio station and its place in the history of transnational
broadcasting in the Middle East, Vivian Salama on Palestinian
TV, Issandr El Amrani on why Al Jazeera International is likely to have
trouble finding an audience in the US, Lindsay Wise
on the clash between Islamic TV preachers Amr Khaled and Yusuf Al Qaradawi,
Nabil Dajani on the re-feudalization of Lebanese television
news, Stacey Philbrick Yadav on Arab satellite TV coverage
of Hurricane Katrina and its impact in Yemen, Sharon Otterman on women
and religious authority on Islamic TV, and Marwan M. Kraidy
on popular culture as a political barometer in Syria and Lebanon. This
issue also includes interviews with Hosam El Sokkary
on the new BBC Arabic television project and Tareq Alsuwaidan,
general manager of the new moderate Islamic channel Al Resalah.
For all this and much more,
see www.tbsjournal.com.
IMPORTANT NOTE TO
READERS: TBS is moving most of its online content to a subscriber-only
format in the coming months. To make sure you can still access all the
great Web resources TBS has to offer, write to Lindsay Wise at
to find out how to buy an online subscription. (Subscribers to the hard-copy
edition will automatically receive online subscription passwords before
the next issue.)
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-Adham Online Staff
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