From the Publisher
"Overall, Fridays of Rage tells a compelling story about the role of Al Jazeera in political discourse in the Arab world using a very rich analysis of the network's broadcasts, and it is well worth reading for scholars of the Middle East and those interested in the sociology of media." — Zachary Wilmot, Brown University, Department of Sociology, Social Forces
"Fridays of Rage makes an original contribution to the already large literature on Al-Jazeera in its articulation of the channel with political Islamism, and with its distinctive foregrounding of the Maghreb as a political and media space, buttressed by new empirical evidence."-Marwan M. Kraidy, author of The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World "Sometimes Al Jazeera's significance is blurred because of the controversies that surround the channel. But as Sam Cherribi's incisive narrative and analysis make clear, Al Jazeera remains an important cultural and political, as well as journalistic, phenomenon within the Arab world and beyond. Cherribi's book is of great value to all who study Middle East media and the region's politics."-Philip Seib, Professor of Journalism and Public Diplomacy and Professor of International Relations, University of Southern California