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" The development of pan-Arab broadcasting under authoritarian regimes: A comparison of Sawt al-Arab (“Voice of the Arabs”) and Al Jazeera news channel "
Nawal Musleh-Motut

Document Type	:	Latin Dissertation
Language of Document	:	English
Record Number	:	53243
Doc. No	:	TL23197
Call number	:	‭MR29405‬
Main Entry	:	Nawal Musleh-Motut
Title & Author	:	The development of pan-Arab broadcasting under authoritarian regimes: A comparison of Sawt al-Arab (“Voice of the Arabs”) and Al Jazeera news channel\ Nawal Musleh-Motut
College	:	Simon Fraser University (Canada)
Date	:	2006
Degree	:	M.A.
student score	:	2006
Page No	:	117
Abstract	:	This thesis examines the development of pan-Arab broadcasting under authoritarian regimes in the modern Middle East. It undertakes an historical comparison of radio broadcasting under former Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser, more specifically the influential radio program Sawt al-Arab ("Voice of the Arabs"), and satellite television broadcasting under current Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, particularly the renowned Al Jazeera News Channel. While Nasser and Al Thani may have employed their nations' broadcasting apparatuses as means by which to achieve their own ends, contemporary comparisons which imply that these authoritarian leaders have encoded their broadcasting content with similar pan-Arab rhetoric are unfounded. Rather, legitimate points of comparison are found in audience decoding responses, for both Sawt al-Arab and Al Jazeera have demonstrated the ability to transform the interactions of domestic, international and expatriate Arabs through new technological advancements, thus producing increasingly modern variants of previous communal imaginings. Keywords. pan-Arab; broadcasting; media; Sawt al-Arab; Al Jazeera; Middle East.
Subject	:	Communication and the arts; Social sciences; Middle Eastern history; Mass media; 0708:Mass media; 0333:Middle Eastern history
Added Entry	:	Simon Fraser University (Canada)