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Reality television and Arab politics: contention in public life

Marwan M. Kraidy 2010 © Cambridge University Press
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  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
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  • 9780521769198
  • 9780521749046
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  • Communications
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  • Table of Contents

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  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Preface (page xv)
  • Introduction: Beyond al-Jazeera (page 1)
  • 1 Screens of Contention: The Battle for Arab Viewers (page 22)
  • 2 Voting Islam Off the Island? Big Brother in Bahrain (page 46)
  • 3 The Saudi-Lebanese Connection (page 66)
  • 4 Contesting Reality: Star Academy and Islamic Authenticity in Saudi Arabia (page 91)
  • 5 Gendering Reality: Kuwait in the Eye of the Storm (page 119)
  • 6 A Battle of Nations: Superstar and the Lebanon-Syria Media War (page 144)
  • 7 The "New Middle East"? Reality Television and the "Independence Intifada" (page 166)
  • Conclusion: Performing Politics, Taming Modernity (page 192)
  • List of Interviews (page 215)
  • Further Readings (page 219)
  • Bibliography (page 221)
  • Index (page 245)
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IJMES 43.3 (Aug. 2011): 551-552 http://www.jstor.org/stable/23017320
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