This volume of TBS examines the most important trends and controversies in television journalism in the Arab world. Provocatively titled Reality TV in the Middle East, it includes articles by scholars Marc Lynch and Marwan Kreidy, as well as interviews with some of the Arab media’s leading figures. Featured here is a wide range of hot topics, including the question of anti-Americanism on Arab TV by William Rugh, Al Jazeera as an alternative media outlet by Adel Iskandar, and the impact of satellite TV in Iran by Yehia Kamalipour. Other contributors include Lawrence Pintak, Philip Seib, S. Abdallah Schleifer, Hugh Miles,
and Kai Hafez.
Published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism, the American University in Cairo and the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford.