Reporting the Middle East : the practice of news in the twenty-first century / edited by Zahera Harb.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: reporting the Middle East, the Arab World and Islam / Zahera Harb -- On the afterlife of false Syria reporting / Omar Al-Ghazzi -- First framing and news: lessons from reporting Jordan in crises / Dina Matar -- Reporting Egypt: a framing analysis of the coverage of the 30 June mass protests and beyond / Naila Hamdy -- Reporting Lebanon: Orientalism as news practice / Zahera Harb -- Reporting the Israel-Palestine conflict / Mike Berry -- Reporting pre-1948 Palestine in Brazil : the journalistic narrative and the British Empire / Fernando Resende -- Limited perspectives: reporting Gaza / James Rodgers -- Stoning Iran: strategic narratives, moral authority and the reporting of a stoning sentence / Esmaeil Esfandiary and Shahab Esfandiary -- Reporting Turkey : somewhere between the European self and the Oriental other / Birce Bora -- Covering Iraq : observations of a fixer and journalist / Haider Al-Safi -- Reflections and observations on covering the Middle East: Syria, Yemen and Saudi Arabia / Lina Sinjab.

How do the media cover the Middle East? Through a detailed country-by-country approach, this book provides detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab World. Each chapter provides an overview of the country in question, including the political context, relationship to international politics and the key features that are most frequently covered in Western media. The authors explore how the media can be used to serve particular political agendas on both a regional and international level. They also consider the changes to the media landscape following the growth of digital and social media, showing how access to the media is no longer restricted to state or elite actors. By studying coverage of the Middle East from a whole range of news providers, this book shows how news formats and practices may be defined and shaped differently by different nations. It will be essential reading for scholars and practitioners of journalism, especially those focusing on the Arab World.