Table of Contents
- 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)