Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Eickelman, Dale F
• Robert W. Hefner
• Hefner, Robert W

Titel

NEW MEDIA IN THE ARAB MIDDLE EAST AND THE EMERGENCE OF OPEN SOCIETIES

Ist Teil von

• Remaking Muslim Politics, 2009, p.37-59

Ort / Verlag

Princeton: Princeton University Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2009

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The “war in Iraq,” as CNN calls it, is the “war against Iraq” or the “aggression against Iraq” in most of the local and international Arabic print media.Al-Sharq al-Awsat(London) is the only exception, calling it the “war of Iraq” (harb al-‘Iraq) in Arabic, but the “war in Iraq” in English. Other newspapers, such as Morocco’sal-Ittihad al-Ishtiraki,add “No War” in English to the banner of each page of Iraq-oriented news. For most people, however, newspapers are lagging behind television (and to a much lesser extent radio, at least in cities) as a source for war news. The