Channels of resistance in Lebanon : liberation propaganda, Hezbollah and the media / Zahera Harb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harb, Zahera.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Television broadcasting of news--Lebanon--History--20th century.

Television broadcasting of news.

Television and politics--Lebanon--History--20th century.

Television and politics.

Propaganda, Anti-Israeli--Lebanon--History--20th century.

Propaganda, Anti-Israeli.

Television in propaganda--Lebanon--History--20th century.

Television in propaganda.

Arab-Israeli conflict--Mass media and the conflict.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Hizballah (Lebanon).

Télé Liban.

Al-Manar (Television network).

Al-Manar (Television Network).

History.

Lebanon.

Physical Description:

279 pages ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York, NY : I. B. Tauris ; New York, NY : Distributed in the U.S. and Canada by Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

Summary:

On May 25, 2000 Israeli occupation forces withdrew from South Lebanon after 22 years of occupation. The Lebanese media's role in achieving liberation over this period is significant, through campaigns conducted to unify the Lebanese people against their foreign occupier and in support of the Lebanese resistance in South Lebanon. This book investigates the culture and performance of Lebanese journalism in this setting. "Channels of Resistance in Lebanon" is a story about journalism told by a journalist who is also using tools of scholarship and research to narrate her story and the story of her fellow journalists. Zahera Harb is also presenting here an alternative interpretation of propaganda under conditions of foreign occupation and the struggle against that occupation. She identifies the characteristics of "liberation propaganda" through the coverage and experience of the two Lebanese TV stations Tele Liban and Al Manar within the historical, cultural, organizational and religious contexts in which they operated, and how these elements shaped their professional practice and their news values.

Contents:

Propaganda Definitions and Techniques

Ethnography and Journalism Culture

Overview of the Arab/Israeli Conflict

The Media in Lebanon

Tele Liban Coverage, April 1996: grapes of unity facing grapes of wrath

Liberation Media: Hezbollah and Al Manar, 1997-2000

Reflection: Achieving Liberation Propaganda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [241]-259) and index.

ISBN:

1848851219

9781848851214

1848851200

9781848851207

OCLC:

667822765

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