Mass media, politics, and society in the Middle East / edited by Kai Hafez.

Mass media in Arab states between diversification and stagnation / Hussein Amin -- Saudi Arabia's international media strategy / Douglas A. Boyd -- Restructuring television in Egypt / Tourya Guaaybess -- Freedom of the press in Jordanian press laws, 1927-1998 / Orayb Aref Najjar -- The changing face of Arab communications / Muhammad I. Ayish -- Internet in the Arab world / Henner Kirchner -- Distribution of ideas : book production and publishing in Egypt, Lebanon, andthe Middle East / Stefan Winkler -- Interaction between traditional communication and modern media : implications for social change in Iran and Pakistan / ShirMohammad Rawan -- "Coming close to God" through the media : a phenomenology of the media practices of Islamist women in Egypt / Karin Werner -- The global flowof information : a critical appraisal from the perspective of Arab-Islamic information sciences / Dagmar Glass.