ABSTRACT
Introduction is chapter explores the complex intersections between Arab youth, satellite broadcasting and informal education in the Arab region, with particular focus on the extent to which youth favourite television programmes act as sources of cultural and moral education. Informal education is a lifelong process within which the individual acquires attitudes, values, skills and knowledge from his/her closest surroundings including family, work, leisure, and the mass media (Guseva and Kravale, 2006). In this chapter, informal education refers to the learning and acquisition of knowledge, information, values, behaviour and lifestyles associated with young people’s interaction with and experience of satellite television.
