Women and media in the Middle East : power through self-expression / edited by Naomi Sakr.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [228]-240) and index.

Women-media interaction in the Middle East: an introductory overview / Naomi Sakr -- The women's press in contemporary Iran: engendering the public sphere / Gholam Khiabany, Annabelle Sreberny -- 'Til I become a minister': women's rights and women's journalism in pre-1952 Egypt / Sonia Dabbous -- Maghrebi women film-makers and the challenge of modernity: breaking women's silence / Zabia Smail Salhi -- The Orient and its others: women as tools of nationalism in Egyptian political cinema / Lina Khatib -- Multiple literacies, multiple identities: Egyptian rural women's readings of televised literacy campaigns / Sahar Khamis -- Echoes: gender and media challenges in Palestine / Benaz Somiry-Batrawi -- Engagement in the public sphere: women and the press in Kuwait / Haya al-Mughni, Mary Ann Tétreault -- Blessings and curses: women and the internet revolution in the Arab world / Deborah L. Wheeler -- Power, NGOs and Lebanese television: a case study of Al-Manar TV and the Hezbollah women's association / Victoria Firmo-Fontan -- Straddling cultures: Arab women journalists at home and abroad / Magda Abu-Fadil.