There is a great deal at stake for everyone in the future of Arab
television. Political and social upheavals in this central but
unsettled region are increasingly played out on television screens
and in the tussles over programming that take place behind them.
Al-Jazeera is of course only one player among a still-growing
throng of satellite channels, which now include private terrestrial
stations in some Arab states. It is an industry urgently needing to
be made sense of; this book does exactly this in a very readable
and authoritative way, through exploring and explaining the
evolving structures and content choices in both entertainment and
news of contemporary Arab television. It shows how owners,
investors, journalists, presenters, production companies,
advertisers, regulators and media freedom advocates influence each
other in a geolinguistic marketplace that encompasses the Arab
region itself and communities abroad.
Probing internal and external interventions in the Arab television
landscape, the book offers a timely and compelling sequel to Naomi
Sakr's 'Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization
and the Middle East', which won the Middle Eastern Studies Book
Prize in 2003.
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