Islam and the West in the mass media : fragmented images in a globalizing world / edited by Kai Hafez.

Includes bibliographical references and indexs.

International news coverage and the problems of media globalization : in search of a "new global-local nexus" / Kai Hafez -- The Middle East and Islam in Western mass media : towards a comprehensive theory of foreign reporting / Kai Hafez -- Foreign policy, the media, and the western perception of the Middle East / Jochen Hippler -- Right-wing movements, Islam, and the media : the influence of the media on ethnic-religious integration in Europe / Irmgard Pinn -- The renewal of the global media debate : implications for the relationship between the West and the Islamic world / Hamid Mowlana -- The Euro-Iranian dialogue and the West in Iranian media : official, loyalist, and alternative views in the nineties / Katajun Amirpur, Henner Fürtig and Javad Kooroshy -- Islam and the West : perspectives from the Egyptian press, with particular emphasis on Islamist papers / Walid M. Abdelnasser -- Framing Islam : an analysis of newspaper coverage of Islam in the British press / Elizabeth Poole -- Imbalances of Middle East coverage : a quantitative analysis of the German press / Kai Hafez -- Islam and the West : hostage to history? / Majid Tehranian -- Islamic fundamentalism and its image in the Western media : alternative views / Olfat Hassan Agha -- Islam as an ethnicity? the media's impact on misperceptions in the West / Krista E. Wiegand -- Can this image be saved? Arab-Americans and the media / Orayb Aref Najjar -- The rise and decline of opinion leaders : the changing image of the Middle East and Islam in German mass media / Kai Hafez, Karin Horner and Verena Klemm.