Transnational broadcasting studies : TBS vol. 1.

Includes bibliographical references.

Television and the ethnographic endeavor : the case of Syrian drama / Christa Salamandra -- What would Sayyid Qutb say? some reflections on video clips / Walter Armbrust -- Culture : the distinguishing feature of a people / Amr Khaled -- Ruby : the making of a star / Brooke Comer -- The other face of the video clip : Sami Yusuf and the call for al-Fann al-Hadif / Patricia Kubala -- Interview with Mouafac Harb, executive vice president of Alhurra -- A second look at Alhurra / Lindsay Wise Broadcasting and US public diplomacy / William A. Rugh -- Alhurra is at the heart of the war of ideas / Walid Phares -- Losing the battle for Arab hearts and minds / Steve Tatham -- Al Jazeera : once more into the fray / S. Abdallah Schleifer -- Stealth bouquet : the MBC group moves on / S. Abdallah Schleifer -- A dialogue with Abdul Raham Al-Rashed, general manager of Al Arabiya -- Washington vs. Al Jazeera / Michael C. Hudson -- What the world thinks of Al Jazeera / Hugh Miles -- The challenge for Al Jazeera international / Jon B. Alterman -- Assessing the democratizing power of Arab satellite TV / Marc Lynch -- The rise and potential fall of pan-Arab satellite TV / Jihad Fakhreddine -- Arab satellite broadcasting and the state / Naomi Sakr -- Arab satellite channels and censorship / Joel Campagna -- Of bans, boycotts and sacrificial lambs : Al-Manar in the crossfire / Stacey Philbrick Yadav -- MED-TV : Kurdish satellite television and the changing relationship between the state and media / William Merrifield -- Arabsats get the MEMRI treatment / Brian Whitaker -- Arab TV on the campaign trail in Egypt, Iraq, and Palestine / Charles Levinson -- The day Moroccans gave up couscous for satellites / Tarik Sabry.