CFP : Conference "Rethinking Media Through the Middle East", AUB, Beirut, 12-13/01/2017 — LIMITE : 15/07/2016

Organized by the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut and the Arab Council for the Social Sciences American University of Beirut January 12 & 13, 2017 Within the field of media studies, Middle Eastern media is often treated as a domain of interest only to area specialists. As Edward Said argued in Orientalism, the region popularly known as the Middle East is not peripheral but integral to European history, culture, and civilization. This subversive insight, however, has ..