The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950 : : Politics, Social History and Culture / / Anthony Gorman, Didier Monciaud.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2017
• VerfasserIn: Gorman, Anthony,; Monciaud, Didier,
• MitwirkendeR: Bashkin, Orit,; Booth, Marilyn,; El Houssi, Leila,; Ezzerelli, Kaïs,; Gorman, Anthony,; Kabha, Mustafa,; Karagöz-Kızılca, Gül,; Lawson, Fred H.,; Monciaud, Didier,; Moreau, Odile,; Slim, Souad,; Temimi, Sonia,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.) :; 4 B/W illustrations

Explores the political, social and cultural dimensions of the press in the Middle East in the pre-independence eraThe press is central to our understanding of the development of free speech, civil society, political life and cultural expression. This volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950). Framed by an authoritative introduction these explore the emergence of this important medium, its practitioners and its function as a forum and agent in political, social and cultural life in the Middle East. In taking up this focus, the collection argues that the press is both a vector and an agent of history that facilitates entrée into the complex process of political, social and cultural transformation that the region was undergoing during this critical period.Key FeaturesTwelve innovative case studies based on archival research cover the Ottoman Empire, Palestine, Egypt, Tunisia, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and MoroccoExplores social, political and cultural aspects of the press from the Ottoman Empire and the post-Ottoman Arab world including North Africa in the period before 1950An authoritative introduction reviews the state of the field of the press and media in Middle Eastern studies and place these contributions in contextGives a profile of the practitioners of journalism from political activists and amateurs to the emergence of the professional journalist in the Middle East

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Introduction -- I The Press as National Voice -- 1 News Publishing as a Reflection of Public Opinion: The Idea of News during the Ottoman Financial Crises -- 2 Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s -- 3 The Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars -- Mustafa Kabha -- II The Rise of the Journalist -- 5 Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I -- 6 The Publicist and his Newspaper in Syria in the Era of the Young Turk Revolution, between Reformist Commitment and Political Pressures: Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and al-Muqtabas (1908–17) -- 7 From Intellectual to Professional: The Move from ‘Contributor’ to ‘Journalist’ at Ruz al-Yusuf in the 1920s and 1930s -- III Critical, Dissident Voices -- 8 The Anarchist Press in Egypt before World War I -- 9 The Ethiopian War as Portrayed in the Italian Fascist and Antifascist Press in Tunisia -- 10 A Voice from Below in the 1940s Egyptian Press: The Experience of the Workers’ Newspaper Shubra -- IV The Press as Community Voice -- 11 The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women and Baghdadi Men: A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah -- 12 From a Privileged Community to a Minority Community: The Orthodox Community of Beirut through the Newspaper Al-Hadiyya -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index