Table of Contents

IntroductionPart One: Media in ConflictsThe development of the cartoons crisis - a Danish perspective, by JA rgen S. Nielsen The Representation of Middle Eastern Conflicts in French Media, by Denis SieffertA"Grapes of Unity facing Grapes of WrathA" - War Coverage and Objectivity, by Zahera HarbMedia War or War on Media: Lessons from Iraq, by Ehab BessaisoAl-Jazeera: a Pan-Arab revival?, by Olfa LamloumJournalist as Change Agent: Government repression, corporate feudalism and the Evolving mission of Arab journalism, Lawrence PintakPart Two: Market and CensorshipIs the Arab TV Viewer a King or a Pawn? How Arab Broadcasters Deal with Schedules and Audience Data, Naomi SakrThe Business of News: One Writer's Impressions of Two Middle East News Publications, by Jim QuiltyTransnational media and authoritarian national public spheres, by Tristan MattelartRepresentation, images and censorship in Algeria, by Ghania MouffokBeyond Utopias and Dystopias: Internet in the Arab world, by Maha TakiA Reading of the Media Performance of the Muslim Brotherhood in the 2005 Parliamentary Elections- A Case Study of the City of Alexandria, by Husam Tammam Part Three: Public OpinionMeasuring and comparing opinions: A practical and theoretical challenge, by Erik NeveuEuropean-Middle Eastern Relations in the Media Age, by Erfurt Kai HafezThe Integration of Weblogs in the Egyptian Media environment, Enrique KlausDo the different formats of the Lebanese media constitute a pan-Arab public opinion?, by Katharina Notzoldt In the 'Net' of Public Opinion - Islamist Online Media at Work, by Yassin MusharbashContributorsIndex

About the Author

Arnim Heinemann is a researcher at the Orient-Institut Beirut. Olfa Lamloum is a researcher at the Institut Francais du Proche-Orient, Beirut. Anne Francoise Weber is a programme manager at the Beirut office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.