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The 2009 Presidential Elections and Iran’s Changing Political Landscape
(Elsevier, 2010)
Iran's June 2009 elections set into motion four processes that are central to the operations of the Islamic Republic regime. They include: the growing gap between large sections of Iranian society from the Islamic Republican ...
Arab Media, Corporate Media, and Public Relations: The Case of Al Jazeera
(Taylor & Francis (Routledge), 2008)
Over the past few decades, public relations has developed significantly in the West into a sophisticated management function which is recognized as an integral part of any organization's attempt to communicate with various ...
The Arab Spring and the Saudi-Led Counterrevolution
( Elsevier, 2012)
The author contends that the Arab Spring has provided an opening for the Gulf Cooperation Council as a group and for Saudi Arabia to expand their regional influence and global profile. An already weakened Arab state system, ...
Arab Satellite Television and Crisis Reporting: Covering the Fall of Baghdad
(Sage, 2006)
The question as to what dictates the choices of various media outlets and what guides the professional practices of journalists when reporting on international military crises is particularly pertinent when considering ...
Acceptance as an Open Door of Mercy: Riḍā in Islamic Spirituality
(Philosophy Documentation Center, 2013)
There is no religion that does not start from the premise that "something is rotten in the Kingdom of Denmark," to make use of Hamlet's suggestive expression: mankind has lost its connection with the principle of its being ...
Al Jazeera’s Palestine Papers: Middle East media politics in the post-WikiLeaks era
(Sage, 2013)
Shortly after WikiLeaks published thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables, Al Jazeera released hundreds of classified documents pertaining to the Palestinian–Israeli negotiations. Known as the ‘Palestine Papers’, ...
Back to the Future: EU and Gulf Regional Studies
(Gulf Research Center, 2006)
The GCC-EU Research Bulletin is a quarterly newsletter focused on the relationship between the member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the European Union (EU). The newsletter combines an overview of events ...
The Bottom Line in a Basic Income Experiment
(Walter de Gruyter, 2006)
A basic income (BI) experiment (or a pilot project or an implementation trial) is worth doing if it focuses on the right question. Some of the problems with the U.S. negative income tax (NIT) experiments of the 1970s stemmed ...
The Challenges and Limits of Universalist Concepts: Problematizing Public Opinion in a Mediated Arab Public Sphere
(Brill, 2008)
The author reflects on the participation of media in the Arab world's alteration to changes and the effect of the development in the ascendance of public opinion. He argues that the increasing distribution of television ...
Comparing Elections in Gulf Cooperation Council Countries after the Arab Spring: The United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait
(Taylor & Francis, 2013)
This article discusses the elections that were held in the United Arab Emirates, Oman, and Kuwait after the Arab Spring. Through comparison of the elections using a set of predetermined analytical criteria, the article ...