Journalism in the Grey Zone

Kjetil Selvik is Research Professor in the research group on Peace, Conflict and Development at the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs. He is co-author with Stig Stenslie of Stability and Change in the Modern Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2011) and co-editor with B.O. Utvik of Oil States in the New Middle East: Uprisings and Stability (Routledge, 2016). Jacob Høigilt is Head of Research, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, and Professor of Arabic Language and Culture at the University of Oslo. He is the author of Comics in Contemporary Arab Culture: Politics, Language and Resistance (I. B. Tauris, 2019) and Islamist Rhetoric: Language and Culture in Contemporary Egypt (Routledge, 2011). He is also co-editor with Gunvor Mejdell of The Politics of Written Language in the Arab World (Brill, 2017).

This book is a unique contribution based on interesting, primary analyses of the news apparatuses in two important Arab countries. It is valuable not only to scholars of Arab media, but also to researchers studying the realities of politically fragile states, or states transitioning from authoritarianism to democracy.

• Acknowledgements | A Note on TransliterationIntroductionHybrid Politics and Media InstrumentalisationBeing a Journalist in the Grey ZoneFinding a Role: Tunisian Journalism after the RevolutionNavigating a Field of Tensions: Journalism and Politics in LebanonNational Security and Free Speech in TunisiaElections and Media CaptureProtests and Disruptive JournalismConclusionAppendix I: Interviews - LebanonAppendix II: Interviews - TunisiaIndex