A collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. It tells their stories chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing an autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people.
Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media
Focusing on the role of Lebanese media during the South Lebanon conflict, this book examines how journalism contributed to the resistance against Israeli occupation. Zahera Harb, a journalist and scholar, explores the concept of 'liberation propaganda' through the lens of two significant TV stations, Tele Liban and Al Manar. She analyzes the cultural, historical, and organizational contexts that influenced their news values and professional practices, offering an alternative perspective on propaganda amid foreign occupation and the struggle for liberation.
The contributors set out to examine the ways in which such conflicts in Palestine and Lebanon have been and are narrated, imagined and remembered in diverse spaces, including that of the media.
How do the media cover the Middle East? Through a country-by-country approach, this book provides detailed analysis of the complexities of reporting from the Arab World. Each chapter provides an overview of a country, including the political context, relationships to international politics and the key elements relating to the place as 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.