New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere, edited by Dale F. Eickelman and Jon W. Anderson. (Indiana Series in Middle East Studies) 213 pages, bibliography, index. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1999. $19.95 (Paper) ISBN 0-253-21329-0

2001 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-136
Author(s):  
Deborah L. Wheeler
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Indiana University ◽  
Middle East Studies

Pensée 2: New Media and Old Agendas: The Internet in the Middle East and Middle Eastern Studies

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 531-533 ◽  
Author(s):  
WALTER ARMBRUST
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
Middle Eastern ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Al Jazeera ◽  
Satellite Television ◽  
The Third ◽  
Middle Eastern Studies ◽  
Middle East Studies

My thoughts on the Internet were recently jogged by an experience with a slightly older medium, namely, satellite television. In late March 2007 I attended the Third Annual Al-Jazeera Forum, in Doha. Notwithstanding the attendance of a few academics like me, the forum was largely a networking opportunity for professional journalists, just as MESA is for professional Middle East studies academics. However, unlike MESA, forum presenters, as well as the audience, were handpicked. Even the expenses of the attendees were subsidized (my hotel bill was paid by al-Jazeera). This inevitably made the event an exercise in open self-promotion for al-Jazeera.

Introduction: Curiosities of Middle East Studies in Queer Times

2013 ◽  
Vol 45 (2) ◽  
pp. 331-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul Amar ◽  
Omnia El Shakry
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
New Media ◽  
Nongovernmental Organizations ◽  
Identity Politics ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Sexuality And Religion ◽  
Relations Of Power ◽  
Middle East Studies

Starting in 2010, movements of transformation, spaces of sociability, relations of power, and economies of affect in the Middle East plunged into a time of radical dislocation. Fearless, dissident solidarities challenged patterns of identity, normativity, and authority that had constituted the region for more than a generation. One epoch ended, in which struggles over power seemed all too often restricted to constrained contests between nongovernmental organizations, religious dissidents, and security-state repressors. In their place new insurgencies came to question the narratives, binaries, and regimes of feeling pinned to “identity politics” as defined by categories of class, gender, sexuality, and religion. Curious forms of revolutionary social uprising exploded among gender, labor, and community dissidents at street level, generating novel popular cultures, rebel counterpublics, and carnivals of new-media experimentation.

Did the Events of 9/11 Change the Field of Middle East Studies? Pensée 1: Of Course—But How?

2007 ◽  
Vol 39 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
ZACHARY LOCKMAN
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Middle East ◽  
The United States ◽  
Muslim World ◽  
Short Answer ◽  
Primary Focus ◽  
Middle East Studies ◽  
Resource Specialists ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Invasion Of Iraq

The short answer to the question as posed is, Yes, of course, 9/11 changed the field of Middle East studies. However, the next question we need to ask is, In what ways have the events of 9/11 (and all that they set in motion, in the United States and internationally, including the U.S. invasion of Iraq) actually affected our work as scholars, students, teachers, resource specialists, and so forth, whose primary focus is the Middle East and/or the Muslim world, as well as the institutions, networks, and field(s) with which we are engaged? Space limitations allow me to offer only a few brief thoughts.

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