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Autore |
Ayalon Ami |
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Titolo |
The press in the Arab Middle East [[electronic resource] ] : a history / / Ami Ayalon ; in cooperation with the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African studies |
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New York, : Oxford University Press, 1995 |
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ISBN |
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0-19-535857-0 |
1-280-52729-3 |
1-4294-0652-6 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Collana |
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Studies in Middle Eastern history |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Press - Arab countries - History |
Journalism - Arab countries - History |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-287) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Abbreviations; Introduction; I: HISTORICAL PHASES; 1. State Bulletins: Pronouncing the Official Truth; ""Egyptian Events""; The Official Ottoman Press; 2. Enthusiastic Beginnings: The Private Press, 1855-1882; The Private Press in Lebanon; Egypt: The Focus Moves West; Europe, the Convenient Refuge; 3. The Private Press, 1882-1918; Egypt, the Capital of Arab Journalism; The Fertile Crescent and the Hejaz: Beginnings; Wartime Exigencies; 4. The Arab States and the Press, 1918-1945; Egypt; Syria and Lebanon; Iraq; Palestine |
The Journalistic Periphery: Transjordan and the Arabian Peninsula The End of an Era; II: ASPECTS OF DEVELOPMENT; 5. Press, State, and the Question of Freedom; State and Press: The Stick and the Carrot; Journalists and Freedom; 6. The Reader; Cultural Determinants; Circulation; Popular Exposure to the Press; Press and Readership; 7. Cultural Legacy and the Challenge of the Press; Printing and the Guardians of Old Values; Newspapers and Traditional Literary Norms; The Vocabulary of the Press; 8. The Economic Angle: The Press as Merchandise and as Enterprise; The Press as Merchandise |
The Press as Enterprise: Starting UpSources of Income: Advertising; |
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Sources of Income: Circulation; Sources of Income: Subsidization; 9. The Craft of the Arab Journalist; Lure and Frustration; Toward Professionalism; Kurd 'Ali, Yusuf, Musa, Istanbuli; Conclusion; Notes; References; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Newspapers and the practice of journalism began in the Middle East in the nineteenth century and evolved during a period of accelerated sociopolitical and cultural change. Inspired by a foreign model, the Arab press developed in its own way, in terms of its political and social roles, cultural function, and the public image of those who engaged in it. Ami Ayalon draws on a broad array of primary sources--a century of Arabic newspapers, biographies and memoirs of Arab journalists and politicians, and archival material--as well as a large body of published studies, to portray the remarkablevitali |
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