Al' America

Al' America
Author: Jonathan Curiel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2008
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781595584816

From a "San Francisco Chronicle" journalist comes this lively, funny, and revealing look at the little known influence of Arab and Islamic culture on America.

Arab Constitutionalism

Arab Constitutionalism
Author: Zaid Al-Ali
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 333
Release: 2021-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 110842970X

An insider's account and analysis of the largest concentration of constitutional reform since the end of the cold war.

Arab Digital Journalism

Arab Digital Journalism
Author: Noha Mellor
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2022-11-30
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000820297

Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agencies, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion. Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalists, this book reviews the historical development of digital journalism in the region and individual journalists’ perceptions of this development. While technology has provided a new platform for citizens and powerful agents to exchange views, this text examines how it has simultaneously allowed Arab states and authorities to conduct surveillance on journalists, curtail the rise of citizen journalism, and maintain offline hierarchal forms of political, economic, and cultural powers. Mellor also explores how digital technology serves to cement Western hegemony of the information world order, with Arab media organisations and audiences judged to be mere recipients, rather than producers, of such information. Arab Digital Journalism offers an important contribution to the emerging field of digital journalism in the Global South and is a valuable resource for students and researchers interested in media, journalism, communication, and development studies.

Everyday Arab Identity

Everyday Arab Identity
Author: Christopher Phillips
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2013
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415684889

This book examines Arab identity in the contemporary Middle East, and explains why that identity has been maintained alongside state and religious identities over the last 40 years.

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii

History of the Arabic Written Tradition Supplement Volume 3 - ii
Author: Carl Brockelmann
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2018-10-08
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 9004384685

The present English translation reproduces the original German of Carl Brockelmann’s Geschichte der Arabischen Litteratur (GAL) as accurately as possible. In the interest of user-friendliness the following emendations have been made in the translation: Personal names are written out in full, except b. for ibn; Brockelmann’s transliteration of Arabic has been adapted to comply with modern standards for English-language publications; modern English equivalents are given for place names, e.g. Damascus, Cairo, Jerusalem, etc.; several erroneous dates have been corrected, and the page references to the two German editions have been retained in the margin, except in the Supplement volumes, where new references to the first two English volumes have been inserted. Supplement volume SIII-ii offers the thee Indices (authors, titles, and Western editors/publishers).

Arab Mass Media

Arab Mass Media
Author: William A. Rugh
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2004-02-28
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0313067856

Since September 11, 2001, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, many television viewers in the United States have become familiar with Al Jazeera as offering an alternative take on events from that presented by mainstream U.S. media, as well as disseminating anti-American invective. Westerners have tended toward simplistic views of Arab newspapers, radio, and television, assuming that they are all under government control and that freedom of press is non-existent. William A. Rugh, a long time observer of the Arab mass media, offers a more nuanced picture of the Arab press as it relates to the political situation in the Arab world today. Although governmental influence over the media is stronger in the Middle East than in Europe or the United States, Rugh argues that there is more diversity in the Arab media than most people in the West realize. In reality, the Arab media are coming to reflect the diversity and wide range of opinions of those within the Arab world itself. In particular, the advent of privately owned Arab satellite television in the 1990s has led to significant liberalization of the media throughout the region. Rugh concludes that a democracy of ideas and voices is slowly growing in the Arab world, and he remains guardedly optimistic about the positive role the Arab media can play in processes of democratization and nation-building.

Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium Volume 1 Handlist Part 1

Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium Volume 1 Handlist Part 1
Author: Frédéric Bauden
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2016-11-07
Genre: History
ISBN: 9004328467

The Catalogue of the Arabic, Persian and Turkish Manuscripts in Belgium is a union catalogue aiming is to present the Oriental manuscripts held by various Belgian public institutions (Royal Library, university and public libraries). These collections and their contents are largely unknown to scholars due to the lack of published catalogues. This first volume, consisting of a bi-lingual (English and Arabic) handlist, concerns the collection of the Université de Liège, which holds the largest number of Oriental manuscripts (c. 500). Each title is briefly described, identifying the author and offering basic material information. Most of the manuscripts described in this handlist originate from North Africa.

The Modern Arabic Literary Language

The Modern Arabic Literary Language
Author: Jaroslav Stetkevych
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Total Pages: 164
Release: 2006
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9781589011175

The Modern Arabic Literary Language is a thoughtful examination of the changes that the Arabic language has undergone in its transition from its roots in classical Arabic to a language able to meet the demands of twentieth-century life. In this volume a respected and masterful scholar of the Arabic language Jaroslav Stetkevych notes the ways that new words have been incorporated into the language, ranging from deriving new terms from existing roots (for example, the word for "newspaper" derives from the word meaning "sheet to write on") to downright assimilation of foreign words. Also noting the changes in grammar and semantics, Stetkevych illustrates how literary Arabic has become a more flexible language. Originally published in 1970, this volume is a clear assessment of lexical and stylistic developments in Modern Literary Arabic. This classic book is an important resource for scholars and advanced students of Arabic language and linguistics who wish to study the complexities of language change and lexical expansion.

A Tale of Two Narratives

A Tale of Two Narratives
Author: Grace Wermenbol
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2021-05-27
Genre: History
ISBN: 1108840280

Explores the transmission - and perpetuation - of conflict narratives in Israeli-Jewish and Palestinian society since the signing of the Oslo Accords.