UnCivil War of Words (Ar) Haroub Kalamiah حروب كلامية

Arabic
By: Mamoun Fandy
Softcover
299 pp
Saqi Books, London 2008 Arabic Edition c2007
17 x 24 cm
978-1-85516-022-4 / 9781855160224
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"(Un) Civil War of Words: Media andf Politics in The Arab World", by Mamoun Fandy, translated to the Arabic. Focusing specifically on two Arab news television networks, Al-Jazeera and Al-Arabiya, Fandy examines the battle between the Arab world and the West through the popular medium of television, while demonstrating that such stations are often tools used to preserve their own power of authoritarian governments, while simultaneously engaged in a war of words with their neighbors, the West, or many times, both.