U.S. Media and the Middle East

YAHYA R. KAMALIPOUR is Professor of Mass Communication and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Purdue University Calument, Hammond, Indiana. He has published at length on media effects, broadcast education, and international communication in popular and professional journals. He is the editor, with Hamid Mowlana, of Mass Media in the Middle East: A Comprehensive Handbook (Greenwood Press, 1994).

• List of Tables Foreword by George Gerbner Introduction Introductory Perspectives Images and the Crisis of Political Legitimacy by Hamid Mowlana Elements of Cross-Cultural Communication and the Middle East by Mazharul Haque Competing News Narratives, Consensus, and World Power by Thomas Roach U.S. Media and the Middle East: A General Perspective The Palestinian Leadership and the American Media: Changing Images and Conflicting Results by R. S. Zaharna Middle Eastern Women in Western Eyes: A Study of U.S. Press Photographs of Middle Eastern Women by Karin Gwinn Wilkins U.S. Media Coverage of the Intifada and American Public Opinion by AnneMarie A. Daniel Mediating the Other: American Pop Culture Representation of Post-Revolutionary Iran by Hamid Nafficy Covering up Iran: Why Vital Information is Routinely Excluded from U.S. Media News Accounts by David Detmer U.S. Media and the Persian Gulf War The U.S. Media and the 1993 War Against Iraq by Douglas Kellner Limiting the Options: Anti-Arab Images in U.S. Media Coverage of the Persian Gulf Crisis by Lee Wigle Artz and Mark A. Pollock U.S. Media and the Middle East: Newspapers and Magazines The Arab Image in Newspaper Political Cartoons by Allen W. Palmer Coverage of Arabs in Two Leading U.S. News Magazines: Time and Newsweek by Malhboub Hashem America Looks at the Turks: Analysis of Major U.S. News Magazines' Coverage by Peggy Bieber-Roberts Electronic Media and the Middle East Portrayal of Iranians in U.S. Motion Pictures by Jane Campbell Hollywood Holding Us Hostage: Or, Why Are Terrorists in the Movies Middle Easterners? by Linda K. Fuller Media Impact and Perception Islam and the West: Cultural Encounter by Abbas Malek and Krista E. Wiegand Through a Glass Darkly: American Media Images of Middle Eastern Cultures and Their Potential Impact on Young Children by Robert L. Schrag and Manoocher N. Javidi American Students' Perception of Arabs in Political Cartoons by Jack A. Nelson and Maher N. al-Hajji Selected bibliography Index