H-Mideast-Politics, is an academic network where substantive information and analysis can be presented of Middle East current affairs and of its relevance to the foreign policy of states outside the region. The network takes the entire area from Morocco to Malaysia and from Kazakhstan to Somalia as its purview. The emphasis is on contemporary politics.
Naomi Sakr. Transformations in Egyptian Journalism. London: I.B. Tauris, 2013. xviii + 109 pp. $25.00 (paper), ISBN 978-1-78076-589-1.
Reviewed by Edward Webb (Dickinson College)
Published on H-Mideast-Politics (February, 2014)
Commissioned by Shirin Saeidi
Mixed Prospects for Egypt's Media
Dear colleagues,
We are still looking for one more paper for our panel entitled 'Local governance reforms in the wake of the Arab Spring: Opportunities for social accountability?' at MESA 2014 in Washington D.C.
Please find the description below.
Please submit paper abstracts of 300 - 400 words by Thursday 13 February 2014 to bergh@iss.nl.
H-Mideast-Politics is H-Net’s Network on contemporary Middle Eastern political affairs and their international repercussions.
I. The H-Mideast-Politics Network: Scope, Content, Purpose
H-Mideast Politics is an academic network where substantive information and analysis can be presented of Middle East current affairs and of its relevance to the foreign policy of states outside the region. The network takes the entire area from Morocco to Malaysia and from Kazakhstan to Somalia as its purview. The emphasis is on contemporary politics.
Daniel Tsadik. Between Foreigners and Shi'is: Nineteenth-Century Iran and Its Jewish Minority. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2007. xxi + 295 pp. $60.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8047-5458-3.
Reviewed by Lior Sternfeld (Department of History, University of Texas at Austin)
Published on H-Mideast-Politics (May, 2012)
Commissioned by Shirin Saeidi
