Nahed Eltantawy is an Associate Professor of Journalism at High Point University, North Carolina, USA, where she teaches a variety of convergent journalism courses as well as women and gender studies. Her research interests include the media’s representation of women, the role of the media in the Middle East, social media and cyber activism, and critical and cultural studies. Her work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research.

• Introduction – From Veiling to Blogging: Women and media in the Middle East 1. Veiled Threats: Decentering and unification in transnational news coverage of the French veil ban 2. I am Just Doing my Bit to Promote Modesty: Niqabis’ self-portraits on photo-sharing websites 3. They Call Me Muslim: Muslim women in the media through and beyond the veil 4. Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe: New X-Men’s Dust 5. Selfish, Vengeful, and Full of Spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television 6. Mediated Piety in Contemporary Syria: Women, Islam, and television 7. A Right to Exist: A Palestinian speaks 8. Women’s Experiences of Work in the Iranian Broadcast Media (IRIB): Motivations, challenges, and achievements 9. "Talking Back": The poetry of Suheir Hammad 10. Social Media and Turkish Feminism: New resources for social activism 11. The First Ladies and the Arab Spring: A textual analysis of the media coverage of the female counterparts of authoritarian oppression in the Middle East 12. In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Nahed Eltantawy is an Associate Professor of Journalism at High Point University, North Carolina, USA, where she teaches a variety of convergent journalism courses as well as women and gender studies. Her research interests include the media’s representation of women, the role of the media in the Middle East, social media and cyber activism, and critical and cultural studies. Her work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research.

• Introduction – From Veiling to Blogging: Women and media in the Middle East 1. Veiled Threats: Decentering and unification in transnational news coverage of the French veil ban 2. I am Just Doing my Bit to Promote Modesty: Niqabis’ self-portraits on photo-sharing websites 3. They Call Me Muslim: Muslim women in the media through and beyond the veil 4. Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe: New X-Men’s Dust 5. Selfish, Vengeful, and Full of Spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television 6. Mediated Piety in Contemporary Syria: Women, Islam, and television 7. A Right to Exist: A Palestinian speaks 8. Women’s Experiences of Work in the Iranian Broadcast Media (IRIB): Motivations, challenges, and achievements 9. "Talking Back": The poetry of Suheir Hammad 10. Social Media and Turkish Feminism: New resources for social activism 11. The First Ladies and the Arab Spring: A textual analysis of the media coverage of the female counterparts of authoritarian oppression in the Middle East 12. In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women

Nahed Eltantawy is an Associate Professor of Journalism at High Point University, North Carolina, USA, where she teaches a variety of convergent journalism courses as well as women and gender studies. Her research interests include the media’s representation of women, the role of the media in the Middle East, social media and cyber activism, and critical and cultural studies. Her work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research.

• Introduction – From Veiling to Blogging: Women and media in the Middle East 1. Veiled Threats: Decentering and unification in transnational news coverage of the French veil ban 2. I am Just Doing my Bit to Promote Modesty: Niqabis’ self-portraits on photo-sharing websites 3. They Call Me Muslim: Muslim women in the media through and beyond the veil 4. Finding a Place for a Muslimah Heroine in the Post-9/11 Marvel Universe: New X-Men’s Dust 5. Selfish, Vengeful, and Full of Spite: The representations of women who have abortions on Turkish television 6. Mediated Piety in Contemporary Syria: Women, Islam, and television 7. A Right to Exist: A Palestinian speaks 8. Women’s Experiences of Work in the Iranian Broadcast Media (IRIB): Motivations, challenges, and achievements 9. "Talking Back": The poetry of Suheir Hammad 10. Social Media and Turkish Feminism: New resources for social activism 11. The First Ladies and the Arab Spring: A textual analysis of the media coverage of the female counterparts of authoritarian oppression in the Middle East 12. In Their Own Voice: Technologically mediated empowerment and transformation among young Arab women