Al Jazeera and the New Arab Media

May 4 - May 5, 2007

Film Showing with Directors

“Glassy Eyes” by Hossein Dehbashi

Friday May 4, 7:00 PM, 1920 Buchanan
Between 2002 and 2005, Dehbashi studied the BBC and Al-Jazeera news channels through the modern contexts of Iraq and Afghanistan.   The production of this film was based on over 50 meetings with war correspondents and high level media representatives in Iraq and Afghanistan.

“The Arab American Road Movie” by Joan Mandell
Commissioned for the National Arab American Museum in Detroit

Arab Media and the K-12 Classroom

Saturday May 5, 1910 Buchanan

Panel 1:

Kathleen Moore, CMES Director and
Garay Menicucci, CMES Assistant Director

• Al Jazeera: The Influence of Satellite Television on Freedom of the Press and Global Flows of Information
  Daniela Conte, IMT School of Advanced Studies, Lucca, Italy
• The Guy from Arkansas: My Experience with al Jazeera Najib Ghadbian, University of Arkansas
• Violence and Imagination: Al Jazeera and Washington’s War Leila Hudson, University of Arizona
• Arabs and the Middle East in North American Media
  Jamal Najjab, Reporter, American Educational Trust
• Al Jazeera and the Countermovement to Globalization
  Mark Tomass, University of New York, Prague
  

PBS Frontline: News War
The last installment in a four part series aired on March 27, 2007 focuses on the new Arab media and its role in both mitigating and exacerbating the clash between the West and Islam, with a focus on Al Jazeera and how it has changed the face of a parochial and tightly controlled Arab media.

Panel 2:

Dr. Adel Iskandar is currently a visiting researcher at Georgetown University.  His research interests focus on news discourses, contemporary Arab media and the Arab diaspora.  He is the author and co-author of several seminal works on Arab media, most prominently the first major analysis of the Arab satellite station Al Jazeera, titled Al-Jazeera: How the Free Arab News Network Scooped the World and Changed the Middle East and  Al-Jazeera: The Story of the Network that is Rattling Governments and Redefining Modern Journalism.

 

Dr. Salim Tamari is currently a visiting professor in the history department at the University of California at Berkeley.  Dr. Tamari is the director of the Institute of Jerusalem Studies in Jerusalem (www.jqf-jerusalem.org) and Professor of Sociology at Birzeit University, specializing in urban, rural, and political sociology.  He is also on the editorial staff of the Journal of Palestine Studies published by the University of California.

Panel 3:
The Politics of the New Arab Media

• Star Preachers, Legal Controversies, and the Question of Religion’s Place in the Public Sphere on Pan-Arab Satellite Television
  Patricia Kubala, UCSB
• Speaking Truth to Power: How Al Jazeera is Challenging and Improving Egyptian Journalism
  Courtney C. Radsch, American University\When
• Subaltern is Popular: Sha’ban ‘Abd al-Rahim and New Arab Media
  James Grippo, UCSB
• Telesur: Al Jazeera in Latin America
  Noah Zweig, UCSB

Plenary with Al Jazeera News Anchor Dave Marash
Dave Marash joined Al Jazeera from the ABC News’ Nightline where from 1989 he was an award-winning correspondent covering global as well as US domestic stories. Marash’s coverage of world events has been highly acclaimed, winning him an Emmy Award in 1994 for coverage of the war in Bosnia, in 1996 for coverage of the domestic terrorism in Oklahoma City, in 1997 for covering the explosion of TWA flight 800 over Lockerbie and an Emmy Award nomination in 2005 for coverage of the effects of the Asian tsunami in Sri Lanka. He was also been awarded the Du Pont Award and Global Health Award in 2000 for a three part series of Nightline programs on the effects of AIDS in Zimbabwe. He was also awarded the Overseas Press Club Award for his radio reportage of the 1972 Black September hostage killings at the Munich Olympic Games. (aljazeera.net)

Presented By:

The Center for Middle East Studies, the Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television, and New Media, and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

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