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National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries This page intentionally left blank National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries Edited by Tourya Guaaybess Assistant Professor, University of Clermont-Ferrand and Researcher, Laboratory of Communication and Politics at CNRS, France Introduction, selection and editorial matter © Tourya Guaaybess 2013 Individual chapters © Contributors 2013 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written permission. No portion of this publication may be reproduced, copied or transmitted save with written permission or in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, or under the terms of any licence permitting limited copying issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency, Saffron House, 6–10 Kirby Street, London EC1N 8TS. Any person who does any unauthorized act in relation to this publication may be liable to criminal prosecution and civil claims for damages. The authors have asserted their rights to be identified as the authors of this work in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. First published 2013 by PALGRAVE MACMILLAN Palgrave Macmillan in the UK is an imprint of Macmillan Publishers Limited, registered in England, company number 785998, of Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire RG21 6XS. Palgrave Macmillan in the US is a division of St Martin’s Press LLC, 175 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10010. Palgrave Macmillan is the global academic imprint of the above c ompanies and has companies and representatives throughout the world. Palgrave® and Macmillan® are registered trademarks in the United States, the United Kingdom, Europe and other countries. ISBN 978–0–230–36716–6 This book is printed on paper suitable for recycling and made from fully managed and sustained forest sources. Logging, pulping and m anufacturing processes are expected to conform to the environmental regulations of the country of origin. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 13 Printed and bound in Great Britain by CPI Antony Rowe, Chippenham and Eastbourne Contents List of Tables vii Acknowledgements viii Notes on Contributors ix Introduction: A Return to the National Perspective 1 Tourya Guaaybess 1 Broadcasting Transitions in the United Arab Emirates 13 Muhammad I. Ayish 2 Television Reform in Saudi Arabia: The Challenges of Transnationalization and Digitization 28 Marwan M. Kraidy 3 The Other Face of Qatari TV Broadcasting 42 Hugh Miles 4 Reforming Egypt’s Broadcasting in the Post-25 January Era: The Challenges of Path Dependence 49 Tourya Guaaybess 5 The Lebanese Broadcasting System: A Battle between Political Parallelism, Commercialization and De-f acto Liberalism 69 Sarah El Richani 6 Syrian Television Drama: A National Industry in a Pan- Arab Mediascape 83 Christa Salamandra 7 ‘We Cannot Let it Loose’: Geopolitics, Security and Reform in Jordanian Broadcasting 96 Naomi Sakr 8 Tunisian Media under the Authoritarian Structure of Ben Ali’s Regime and After 117 Joan Barata v vi Contents 9 Liberalization of the Moroccan Broadcasting Sector: Breakthroughs and Limitations 131 Aârab Issiali 10 Libyan Broadcasting under al- Qadhafi: The Politics of Pseudo-Liberalization 150 Carola Richter 11 Algerian Public Authorities in the Face of Transnational Media Competition: Between Status Quo and Deregulation 166 Belkacem Mostefaoui 12 Towards a Supranational Analysis of Arab Media: The Role of Cities 188 Joe F. Khalil Conclusion 209 Tourya Guaaybess Index 215 List of Tables 1.1 U AE national broadcasters 17 1.2 N ational Identity Index in broadcast media 22 1.3 N ational Identity Index in selected radio programmes 22 1.4 N ational Identity Index in selected television programmes 23 5.1 O wners and religious or political affiliations of Lebanese channels 71 9.1 N ew licences granted by the HACA in 2006 143 12.1 Media cities spectrum 199 12.2 Economic free-z one media cities in Dubai, Egypt and Jordan 200 12.3 TECOM profile 202 vii Acknowledgements The study of national Arab broadcasting through the prism of states’ policies (and vice versa) was a long- standing project. Though I was convinced that such a comparative study was necessary for scholars and students, I also knew that it required – due to its breadth – far more than the competencies of just one researcher. The present book owes a lot to the authors, and my deepest gratitude goes to them for their professionalism, their enthusiasm, and the swiftness with which they responded from the onset to the completion of the book. It is also a pleasure to thank Elias for his support and constant encouragement. I would like to express my gratitude to Felicity Plester and Catherine Mitchell at Palgrave Macmillan for their patience, their reliability and their rigour at all times during these past two years. I would also like to thank an anonymous referee for his/her encouragement and for the relevant comments and suggestions which helped further improve the book. Finally, I feel very grateful to Monica Kendall for her effective editorial work, and her comments, on the manuscript. viii Notes on Contributors Muhammad I. Ayish is currently Professor of Mass Communication at the American University of Sharjah, UAE. He holds a doctoral degree in international communication and public diplomacy from the University of M innesota- Twin Cities (1986). He has taken up academic posts at several universities in Jordan and the United Arab Emirates, including Dean of Communication at the University of Sharjah, UAE (2002–8). He has over 70 journal articles and book chapters published in international books and journals on Arab broadcasting, women and media, media and politics and new tech- nologies. His most recent book, co-edited with Shakuntala Rao, is Explorations in Global Media Ethics (2012). Joan Barata is a Professor of Communication Law and Vice Dean of International Relations at Blanquerna Communication School, Universitat Ramon Llull, Barcelona. He was previously a professor at the University of Barcelona (2001–5) and the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2010–11). He has been a professor at the Open University of Catalonia since 1997, as well as a visiting scholar at the University of Bologna (2003) and the Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, New York (2003–4). His writings and research interests include topics such as freedom of speech, media regulation, public s ervice broadcasting and political and legal media transitions. He has provided assistance to several institutions and organizations r egarding these issues in countries such as Thailand, Morocco, Tunisia, Lebanon, Jordan, Albania, Hungary, Dominican Republic, Colombia and the United States. He has been Head of the President’s Cabinet (2005–9) and General Secretary of the Catalonia Audiovisual Council (2009–11). He has also provided assistance to the OSCE (2004) and the Council of Europe (2012). Sarah El Richani is a doctoral student researching the Lebanese media system from a comparative perspective at the University of Erfurt. Sarah obtained her MA in Journalism from the University of Westminster courtesy of the Quintin Hogg Scholarship and her BA in English Literature and Philosophy from the American University of ix

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