ABSTRACT

This text looks at the ways in which Jews, Muslims and the conflict between them has been covered in the modern media. Both Jews and Muslims generally receive a 'bad press'. This book will try to reveal why. The media have clearly played a pro-active role in the Middle East conflict, the coverage of which is obscured by the contrasting images of Jew and Muslim in western thought.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

part |94 pages

Jews and Muslims

chapter |13 pages

Christian 'Intruders', Muslim 'Bigots'

The Egyptian—Syrian press controversy in late nineteenth-century Cairo

chapter |10 pages

Imag(in)ing Europe

The theme of emigration in North African cinema

chapter |15 pages

Representing the Muslim

The 'courtesan film' in Indian popular cinema 1

part |142 pages

Mass Media and the Conflict in the Middle East

chapter |11 pages

In the Eyes of the Beholder

Israel, Jews and Zionism in the Iraqi media

chapter |13 pages

Arab.Ru

The virtual other in the Israeli—Russian web

chapter |21 pages

Reading the Guardian

Jews, Israel—Palestine and the origins of irritation

chapter |12 pages

Facing and Defacing the 'Other'

Israel television's live representation of Arabs in ceremonies and disaster marathons

chapter |24 pages

Are they Still the Enemy?

The representation of Arabs in Israeli television news