[ecrea] new book: The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the Arab Press: The First Three Decades

Intellect is delighted to announce that The Arab-Israeli Conflict in the 
Arab Pres <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5318/>s/: 
The First Three Decades/ 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5318/> is now 
available.


This monograph provides a much-needed history of Arab print media as 
well as an in-depth study of translated Arab media sources, remedying a 
remarkable gap in western intellectual culture. Setting the scene, the 
manuscript begins with a brief historical narrative of Arab newspapers 
from the 1940s to the mid-1970s, when a free press virtually 
disappeared. William Haddad then explores the historiography of the Arab 
print media, compiling a valuable collection of available scholarship on 
the subject. The book simultaneously considers the contemporary ongoing 
problem of censorship in Middle East journalism. With this valuable 
context Haddad then sets about examining the Arab print media’s view of 
the Arab-Israeli conflict in its first three decades. By giving voice to 
the Arab political journalists who wrote editorials and opinion pieces, 
the bulk of the book explores the variety of opinions held in the Arab 
print media regarding the Arab-Israeli conflict.


'William Haddad’s scholarly account of how the Arab press has covered 
the Arab-Israeli conflict over the last half century is a welcome and 
long overdue contribution to our collective knowledge of the conflicting 
narratives of Israelis, Palestinians and other Arabs. The inclusion of a 
wide range of newspapers from a number of different Arab nations 
highlights both the similarities and differences of press coverage 
within the Arab world. Arab editorials on the conflict are also put 
within a global perspective. The general low level of proficiency in 
Arabic in most of the western world, as well as deeply embedded cultural 
and political biases, has resulted in the Arab press being largely 
ignored, understudied or worse, misrepresented in the West; this book is 
a major contribution in filling that gap. '– Janice J. Terry is 
professor emeritus of modern Middle Eastern history at Eastern Michigan 
University and adjunct professor at the Institute of Learning in 
Retirement and Marietta College, Ohio.


For more information about this title, please click here 
<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=5318/> or email 
(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com) <mailto:(katy /at/ intellectbooks.com)>.

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