Open AccessWomen and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression
Author(s) -
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
al-raida
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2226-4841
pISSN - 0259-9953
DOI - 10.32380/alrj.v0i0.119
Subject(s) - newspaper , elite , media studies , middle east , politics , political science , power (physics) , islam , government (linguistics) , literacy , mass media , conversation , the internet , gender studies , sociology , law , history , linguistics , philosophy , physics , archaeology , quantum mechanics , world wide web , computer science , communication
Four public service announcements promoting literacy in the rural Egyptian village of Kafr Masoud; eight women’s magazines published between the Constitutional Revolution and the Pahlavi era in Iran; ten Egyptian melodramas constructing the woman-as-nation metaphor between the Arab-Israeli conflict and the politics of Islamic fundamentalism; the struggle for women’s right to vote in Kuwait between liberal and religious newspapers; seven Lebanese journalists in conversation about their craft. In eleven chapters, Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression spans a region stretching from Morocco to Iran and material including feature films, government-sponsored television spots, newspapers, internet penetration, non-governmental organizations, documentaries produced by media institutes and the television industry.