This book examines the evolution of national Arab media and its interplay with political change, particularly in emerging democracies in the context of the Arab

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Prior to 2011, popular imagination perceived the Muslim Middle East as unchanging and unchangeable, frozen in its own traditions and history. In Life as Politic

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