15. Author: Abdo Al-Mikhlafy Title: Al Jazeera as a Regional and Global Media Player Publisher: Peter Lang, Germany Year: 2006 Language: German
Description: This book presents Al Jazeera as a media and political phenomenon. The author begins with contextualizing Arab media before and during the ‘age of satellites’. In this context, he emblematically divides the history of Arab media into two periods, pre-Al Jazeera and the ‘age of Al Jazeera’. He conducts an analytical study of a selected sample of Al Jazeera’s programmes and news content and explain how the channel ‘revolutionized’Arab public opinion through its controversial approach to problematic issues and breaking ‘taboos’. The book tracks Al Jazeera’s transformation from regional into international media and political player. After becoming an important component of Arab political culture and raising political awareness of Arab publics, Al Jazeera will also create new dynamics for change in the region. 16. Author: Steve Tatham Title: Losing Arab Hearts and Minds: The Coalition, Al Jazeera and Muslim Public Opinion Publisher: C. Hurst & Co., UK Year: 2006 Language: English Description: After 9/11, there was a wide condemnation of Al Qaeda, and a majority of those polled had a favorable sentiment towards the United States and all that it stood for. Within two years the pain and distress of that event and the accompanying sympathy was squandered, especially after the invasion of war Iraq, which many of the US friends did not support. The author argues that, having largely lost international support, the United States failed to get its justification and messages across to international audiences, particularly in the Arab world, which developed its own means of communication. The reach and influence of Arab satellite channels, particularly Al Jazeera, became an important dynamic in the Arab-US relations and in mobilizing Arab and Muslim public opinion.
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