Arab Cultural Studies

Tarik Sabry is Senior Lecturer in Media and Communication Theory at the University of Westminster. He is the author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (I.B.Tauris, 2010) and is co-editor if the 'Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication'.

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• IntroductionTarik SabryChapter 1Cultural Criticism: Theory & MethodAbdullah Al GhadhamiChapter 2The Saudi Modernity Wars According To ‘Abdullah Al-Ghadhami: A Template for the Study of Arab Culture and MediaMarwan KraidyChapter 3Arab Media Studies between the Legacy of a Thin Discipline And the Promise of New Cultural PathwaysMohamed ZayaniChapter 4Cultural Studies in Arab World Academic Communication ProgrammesThe Battle for SurvivalMuhammad Ayish Chapter 5In search of the Great Absent: Cultural Studies in Arab UniversitiesRiadh FerjaniChapter 6Resources, Creativity and Arab culture: Insights from a Political Economy ApproachNaomi SakrChapter 7Language as culture: The question of ArabicAtef al-ShaerChapter: 8Rethinking the Arab State and Culture: Power, discourse and media in contemporary SyriaDina MatarChapter 9The Necessary Politics of Palestinian Cultural Studies Helga Tawil-SouriChapter 10Rethinking Gender Studies in the Arab World: A Conceptual InterventionLayal FtouniChapter 11Disarticulating Arab Popular Culture: The Case of Egyptian Comedies.Iman HamamChapter 12Internationalizing a Media Studies degree in Arab Higher Education: A case study arising from an agreement between New Zealand and OmanSusan O’Rourke and Rosser JohnsonChapter 13Arab cultural studies: between re-territorialization and de-territorializationTarik SabryNotesIndex