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Authors: Tudor Parfitt
ISBN-13: 9780415318396, ISBN-10: 0415318394
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Taylor & Francis, Inc.
Date Published: December 2003
Edition: (Non-applicable)
This book looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive 'bad press' and this books tries to reveal why.
List of contributors | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Christian 'intruders', Muslim 'bigots': the Egyptian-Syrian press controversy in late nineteenth-century Cairo | 15 |
2 | Zionism, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire as reflected in the weekly Hamevasser | 28 |
3 | Mediating the 'other' through advertisements | 35 |
4 | From Judeophobia to Islamophobia in the Italian media, with a special focus on the Northern League party media | 48 |
5 | Minorities and press in post-revolution Iran | 55 |
6 | Imag(in)ing Europe: the theme of emigration in North African cinema | 68 |
7 | Representing the Muslim: the 'courtesan film' in Indian popular cinema | 78 |
8 | Jewish themes in the press of independent India | 93 |
9 | In the eyes of the beholder: Israel, Jews and Zionism in the Iraqi media | 109 |
10 | The image of Jews and the State of Israel in Eastern bloc media | 120 |
11 | The portrayal of Palestinian Arabs in the Moscow Yiddish Monthly Sovetish heymland | 133 |
12 | Arab.Ru: the virtual other on the Israeli-Russian web | 144 |
13 | Reading The Guardian: Jews, Israel-Palestine and the origins of irritation | 157 |
14 | Facing and defacing the 'other': Israel television's live representation of Arabs in ceremonies and disaster marathons | 178 |
15 | Are they still the enemy? The representation of Arabs in Israeli television news | 190 |
16 | Approaches to peacemaking in the Israeli press | 214 |
17 | Argument, war and the role of the Media in conflict management | 228 |
Index | 249 |