Media and Political Contestation in the Contemporary Arab World

List of illustrations<br>Acknowledgements<br>Introduction; Lena Jayyusi<br>1. The Egyptian Blogosphere and the Revolution of the 25th of January; Charles Hirschkind<br>2. The Three Phases of Facebook: Social Networks and the Public Sphere in the Arab World&nbsp; - The Case of the Tunisian Revolution; Sadok Hammami<br>3. Hezbollah Communication Policy and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict; Olfa Lamloum<br>4. Martyrs and Markets: Exploring the Palestinian Visual Public Sphere; Toufic Haddad<br>5. Revolutionary Manoeuvrings Palestinian activism between Cybercide, and Cyber Intifada; Miriyam Aouragh<br>6. The Geopolitics of Press Freedoms in the Israeli-Palestinian Context; Amahl Bishara<br>7. The Politics/Popular Culture Nexus in the Arab World: A Preliminary Comparison of Reality Television and Music Video; Marwan M. Kraidy<br>8. Female Islamic Interpretations on the Air: Fatwas and Religious Guidance by Women Scholars on Arab Satellite Channels; Anne Sofie Roald<br>9. Presence and visibility: Women in Arab satellite television, 1996-2006; Hayat Howayyek Atiyya<br>10. The Framing of the Islam Online Crisis in Arab Media; Mona Abdel-Fadil<br>List of contributors<br>Note on transliteration<br>Index<br>