New Media in the Muslim World: The Emerging Public Sphere

"It is difficult to imagine a more thoughtful, balanced, or comprehensive treatment of this extremely elusive and difficult subject." -- Digest of Middle East Studies
This second edition of a widely acclaimed collection of essays reports on how new media -- fax machines, satellite television, and the Internet -- and the new uses of older media -- cassettes, pulp fiction, the cinema, the telephone, and the press -- shape belief, authority, and community in the Muslim world. The chapters in this work, including new chapters dealing specifically with events after September 11, 2001, concern Indonesia, Bangladesh, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, the Arabian Peninsula, and Muslim communities in the United States and elsewhere.