The Middle East in the Media

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The Arab media landscape has undergone fundamental changes since the 1990s, which has affected how information and coverage are transferred.While new information and communication technologies emerge, such as Arab satellite television and blogging, censorship is adapting to these new possibilities of communication, which in turn affects the media's message and resultant public opinion.Arnim Heinemann is a researcher at the Orient-Institut Beirut.Olfa Lamloum is a researcher at the Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beirut.Anne Françoise Weber is a program manager at the Beirut office of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation.