Channels of Resistance in Lebanon Liberation Propaganda, Hezbollah and the Media

by Harb, Zahera

• ISBN13: 9781848851207
• ISBN10: 1848851200
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-15
• Publisher: I. B. Tauris

Summary

On May 25th 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. It 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.

Author Biography

Zahera Harb teaches Media Studies at Nottingham University. She is also a Lebanese journalist with over ten years' experience working for Lebanese and international media organizations. She started as a news reporter and distinguished herself in particular in the coverage of war operations in the battlefield in South Lebanon. She is a review editor for Journal of Media Practice.

Table of Contents

Introduction

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

Bibliography

Notes

Index

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