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Creative Insurgency in the Arab World

Marwan M. Kraidy

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ISBN 9780674980051

Publication Date: 08/14/2017

304 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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Marwan M. Kraidy is Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Read Marwan Kraidy’s Washington Post essay on the November 5, 2017 purge of media moguls by the Saudi Arabian King Salman—a historic shift away from the indirect influence commonly exercised by royals over Arab media
Read Professor Kraidy’s Washington Post essay on the use of violent imagery by the Islamic State (IS)—a group with a “clear media doctrine intended to do as much damage as its bullets and bombs”
Read Kraidy’s “Creative Insurgency and the Celebrity President: Politics and Popular Culture from the Arab Spring to the White House” from the Winter/Spring 2017 issue of Arab Media & Society
Listen to Kraidy’s conversation about creative insurgency in the Arab world with the Status audio journal
Read a Eurasia Group Foundation interview with Kraidy about ISIS and communications technology
Listen to a Project on Middle East Political Science conversation with Kraidy about creative insurgency
At History News Network, read Kraidy’s assessment of why depicting Syria’s Bashar al-Assad as a finger puppet has proven to be effective ridicule
Via the University of Pennsylvania’s Annenberg School for Communication, read about Marwan Kraidy’s research and recent Carnegie Fellowship

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2017 ICA Outstanding Book Award, International Communication Association

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