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Introduction: Problematizing political communication theory and praxis in the Middle East and North Africa: Reframing Western-centric debates in times of excessive war (2025)
Book Chapter
Matar, D. (2025). Introduction: Problematizing political communication theory and praxis in the Middle East and North Africa: Reframing Western-centric debates in times of excessive war. In D. Matar (Ed.), Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa (i-18). Bloomsbury Academic. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755653850.ch-I

Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization (2025)
Book
Matar, D. (Ed.). (2025). Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755653850

A decade on from the Arab uprisings, debates continue to reiterate exceptionalist discourses about the region and its peoples which tend to deny individual agency. They also neglect long collective histories of mediated political cultures that have e... Read More about Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization.

Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians (2025)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (online). Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped defi... Read More about Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians.

The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media. (2025)
Journal Article
Mahlouly, D. (2025). The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media. Journal of Dialogue Studies, 12, 193-214. https://doi.org/10.55207/EEYP7156

This paper interrogates the liberal policy discourse surrounding populism, which is often characterised as a communicative style linked to ‘post-truth’ politics. Analysing grey literature and scholarly sources, the study critiques the liberal policy... Read More about The Myth of the Vulnerable Audience: Exploring Counter-Intuitive Approaches to Post-Truth Populism in the New Mass Media..

Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity (2024)
Journal Article
Bresheeth, H. (2024). Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(3), 239-245. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703008

This essay addresses a poignantly critical question: how did Israel enter into such an unsustainable, illegal, immoral and rather impractical position in the span of a few months following the bloody slaughter of 7 October 2023? It explains the probl... Read More about Zionist Settler-Colonialist Identity.

What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction (2024)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (2024). What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(3), 246-253. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703001

In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by... Read More about What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction.

Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (2024)
Book
Tawil-Souri, H., & Matar, D. (Eds.). (2024). Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755654291

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palesti... Read More about Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media.

Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon (2023)
Book
Mahlouly, D. (2023). Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755645206

This book offers a ten-year perspective on ongoing and evolving digital activism practices across the Middle East and North Africa, drawing on interviews and ethnographic evidence collected between 2012 and 2020. It addresses the shifting narratives... Read More about Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon.

Arab news sources and practices in times of crisis: challenges and opportunities for sociology of news research (2023)
Journal Article
Matar, D., & Taha, M. (online). Arab news sources and practices in times of crisis: challenges and opportunities for sociology of news research. Journalism Studies, https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2190827

The relationship between journalists and news source has been challenged by new digital technologies, the crisis in public communication and the multiplication of sources of information and news, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed journ... Read More about Arab news sources and practices in times of crisis: challenges and opportunities for sociology of news research.

From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens (2023)
Journal Article
Batabyal, S. (2023). From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens. Indian Journal of Mass Communication and Journalism, 2(3), 8-16. https://doi.org/10.54105/ijmcj.C1031.032323

Abstract: Digital India, the government’s flagship programme, at first glance is a radical departure from the past and a welcome step forward to digitise the country’s faltering infrastructure. However, as this chapter argues, seen through a post-dev... Read More about From Nehru to Modi: Understanding the History of Indian Television Through A Post Development Lens.

Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows (2022)
Book
Lee, H. (Ed.). (2022). Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429327841

This book examines the various film festivals where Korean cinema plays a significant role, both inside and outside of Korea, focusing on their history, structure and function, and analysis of successful festival films. Using Korean film festivals an... Read More about Korean Film and Festivals: Global Transcultural Flows.