Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-first Century (International Media and Journalism Studies)

She is the author of Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media and co-editor (with Dina Matar) of Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, and of Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon, which were both published by I.B.Tauris. . Zahera Harb is a Senior Lecturer in Jou

The author explores how the media can be used to serve particular political agendas on both a regional and international level. Each chapter provides an overview of the country in question, including the political context, relationship to international politics, and the key features that are most frequently covered in Western media. How does the media cover the Middle East? Through a detailed country-by-country approach, this book provides a detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab world. By studying coverage of the Middle East from a whole range of news providers, this book shows how news formats and practices may be defined and shaped differently by different nations. Zahera Ha

She is the author of Channels of Resistance: Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media and co-editor (with Dina Matar) of Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, and of Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon, which were both published by I.B.Tauris. . About the Author Zahera Harb is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism at City University, London and previously worked as a journalist in Lebanon