Table of Contents

Acknowledgments List of Images Introduction: The Visual in Political Struggle Part I: Revolutionary Illusions Chapter 1 - The Visual Legacy of the Cedar Revolution in Lebanon Chapter 2 - Hizbullah: Image Management and Political Survival Chapter 3 - The Politics of (In)visibility in Iran Part II: Revolutionary Images Chapter 4 - Imaging the Arab Spring Chapter 5 - Television Images and Political Struggle Chapter 6 - Re-imaging the Arab Dictator Notes Index

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Presents a cross-country examination of emerging trends in political communication in the Middle East, from Iran and the Mashreq to Egypt and the Gulf. It's a hard-hitting, enjoyable, ground-breaking book, challenging the traditional ways in which the communication of politics in the Middle East is conceived of and analyzed.

About the Author

Lina Khatib is the co-founding manager of the Program on Arab Reform and Democracy at Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (2006) and of Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (2008), both from I.B.Tauris.