The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950: Politics, Social History and Culture

by Anthony Gorman (Editor), Didier Monciaud (Editor)

Overview

The press is central to our understanding of the development of free speech, civil society, political life and cultural expression. This volume presents twelve detailed studies dealing with cases drawn from the Middle East and North Africa in the period before independence (c.1850-1950). Framed by an authoritative introduction these explore the emergence of this important medium, its practitioners and its function as a forum and agent in political, social and cultural life in the Middle East. In taking up this focus, the collection argues that the press is both a vector and an agent of history that facilitates entrée into the complex process of political, social and cultural transformation that the region was undergoing during this critical period.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474430623
Publisher:	Edinburgh University Press
Publication date:	05/13/2019
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	392
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x (d)

About the Author

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Edinburgh. He has taught at universities in Australia, Egypt and Britain. Among his research interests are modern Egyptian historiography and the resident foreign presence in modern Egypt. He is currently co-editing a book on the press in the Middle East and on a monograph on a history of the prison in the Middle East.

Didier Monciaud is an Independent Researcher affiliated with the GREMAMO (UniversityParis VII Denis Diderot) and a board member of the Cahiers d’histoire, revue d’histoire critique. His main research interests are political commitments, trajectories and mobilisations in contemporary Egypt, particularly among the educated youth.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Anthony Gorman and Didier Monciaud

I. The Press as National VoiceNews Publishing as a Reflection of Public Opinion: The Idea of News during the Ottoman Financial Crises, Gül Karagöz KızılcaDisruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt’s 1890s, Marilyn BoothThe Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars, Mustafa KabhaFalastin: An Experiment in Promoting Palestinian Nationalism through the English-Language Press, Fred Lawson

II. The Rise of the Journalist Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I, Odile MoreauThe Publicist and his Newspaper in Syria in the Era of the Young Turk Revolution, between Reformist Commitment and Political Pressures: Muhammad Kurd ‘Ali and al-Muqtabas (1908-1917), Kais EzzerelliFrom Intellectual to Professional: the Move from ‘Contributor’ to ‘Journalist’ at Ruz al-Yusuf in the 1920s and 1930s, Sonia Temimi

III: Critical, Dissident VoicesThe Anarchist Press in Egypt before the First World War, Anthony GormanThe War in Ethiopia in the Italian Fascist and anti-Fascist Press in Tunisia in the 1930s, Leila El HoussiA Voice from Below in the 1940s Egyptian Press: the Experience of the Workers Newspaper Shubra, Didier Monciaud

IV: The Press as Community VoiceThe Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women, and Baghdadi Men – A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah, Orit BashkinFrom a Privileged Community to a Minority Community: The Orthodox Community of Beirut through the Newspaper al-Hadiyya, Souad Slim