Reading List (May be subjected to Changes)
Abu-Lughod, Lila. Dramas of Nationhood: The Politics of Television in Egypt (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005). (Chapter 1: “Ethnography of a Nation”, pp. 3-27)
Armbrust, Walter. “Synchronizing Watches: The State, the Consumer, and Sacred Time in Ramadan Television.” In Birgit Meyer and Annaleis Moors (eds), Religion, Media and the Public Sphere (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2005), pp. 207-226.
Ayalon, Ami. The Press in the Arab Middle East: A History. (New York: Oxford University, 1995) Press (excerpts).
Ayish, Muhammad. “Radio Broadcasting in the Arab World.” In Noha Mellor, Muhammad Ayish, Nabil Dajani & Khalil Rinnawi (eds), Arab Media Globalization and Emerging Media Industries (Cambridge: Polity, 2011), pp. 67-84.
Boyd, Douglas A. “Development of Egypt’s Radio: Voice of the Arab under Nasser.” Journalism Quarterly, 52.4 (1975): 645-53.
Chun, Wendy Hui Kyong. "Introduction: Did Somebody Say New Media?" In Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Thomas Kennan eds., New Media/Old Media: A History and Theory Reader. (New York: Routledge, 2006), pp. 1-11.
Fahmy, Ziad. Ordinary Egyptians: Creating the Modern Nation through Popular Culture (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2011). (excerpts)
Hirschkind, Charles. The Ethical Soundscape: Cassette Sermons and Islamic Counter-Publics (New York: Columbia University Press, 2006). (“Introduction”, pp. 1-31).
Hofheinz, Albrecht. “Nextopia? Beyond Revolution 2.0“, International Journal of Communication, 5, 2011, p. 1417- 1434. http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/1186.
Kraidy Marwan, “Youth, Media and Culture in the Arab World”. In: International Handbook of Children, Media and Culture, edited by K. Drotner and S. Livingstone, London: Sage, 2008, p. 330-344.
Kraidy, Marwan M. & Khalil, Joe F. Arab Television Industries (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009). Chapter 1: A Short History of Arab Television”, pp. 9-32.
Kraidy, Marwan. “Star Academy as Arab Political Satire.” Inter. Journal of Middle East Studies 40 (2008): 369-71.
Kraidy, Marwan. Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 1-8.
Mahdi, Muhsin. "From the Manuscript Age to the Age of Printed Books." In George Atiyeh ed., The Book in the Islamic World: The Written Word and Communication in the Middle East. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1995), pp.1-16.
Mernissi, Fatema. “The Satellite, the Prince and Sheherazade: The Rise of Women as Communicators in Digital Islam”, Transnational Broadcasting Studies, No. 12 (Spring 2004), <www.tbsjournal.com/mernissi.htm>.
Ryzova, Lucie. “’My Notepad Is My Friend’: Efendis and the act of Writing in Modern Egypt.” Maghreb Review 32: 4, (2007): 323-348.
Sajdi, Dana. “Print and Its Discontents.” The Translator, 15:1, (2014): 105-138.
Sakr, Naomi. Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self Expression (London: I.B. Tauris, 2004). (Chapter i: Women-Media Interaction in the Middle East, pp. 1-14)
Salamandra, Christa. “Through the Back Door: Syrian Television Makers between Secularism and Islamization”, in Kai Hafez (ed.), Arab Media: Power and Weakness (New York: Continuum, 2008), pp. 252-62.
Schoeler, Gregor. “Introduction” to The Genesis of Literature in Islam: From the Aural to the Read. Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2002, pp. 1-15.
Shafik, Viola. Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity. (Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 1998). (excerpts)
Sheehi, Stephen. “A Social History of Early Arab Photography, or a Prolegomenon to an Archaeology of the Lebanese Imago.” International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. 39, (2007): 177-208.
Sreberny, Annabelle. “Television, Gender and Democratization in the Middle East.” In James Curran and Myung-Jin Park (eds), De-Westernizing Media Studies (London: Routledge, 2000), pp. 63-78 (especially 64-65, 71-72).
Sreberny, Annabelle. “The Analytic Challenges of Studying the Middle East and its Evolving Media Environment.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 1.1 (2008): 8-23.
Toorawa, Shawkat. "Defing Adab by re-defining the Adib: Ibn Abi Tahir Tayfur and storytelling.". In Philip F. Kennedy (ed.) On Fiction and Adab in Medieval Arabic Literature. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2005.