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Women and media in the Middle East : power through self-expression / edited by Naomi Sakr.

Contributor(s): Series: Library of modern Middle East studies ; 41Publication details: London, UK ; New York, NY : I.B. Tauris, 2004.Description: viii, 248 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 1850435456 (pbk.) :
  • 1850434859
Other title:
  • Women and media in the ME
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • P94.5.W652 M53 2004
Summary: Journalists and scholars of communication and related disciplines scrutinize aspects of media production, media consumption, and media texts in the Middle East and North Africa to assess whether recent changes are empowering women. Among their topics are the women's press in contemporary Iran, women as tools of nationalism in Egyptian political cinema, gender and media challenges in Palestine, and women and the Internet revolution in the Arab world. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation #169;2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [228]-240) and index.

Journalists and scholars of communication and related disciplines scrutinize aspects of media production, media consumption, and media texts in the Middle East and North Africa to assess whether recent changes are empowering women. Among their topics are the women's press in contemporary Iran, women as tools of nationalism in Egyptian political cinema, gender and media challenges in Palestine, and women and the Internet revolution in the Arab world. Distributed in the US by Palgrave Macmillan. Annotation #169;2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com) Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc.

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