Jews, Muslims, and mass media: mediating the 'other'

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of contributors; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Jews and Muslims: portraying communities; Christian 'intruders', Muslim 'bigots': the Egyptian; Syrian press controversy in late nineteenth-century Cairo; Zionism, Jews and Muslims in the Ottoman Empire as reflected in the weekly Hamevasser; Mediating the 'other' through advertisements; From Judeophobia to Islamophobia in the Italian media, with a special focus on the Northern League party media; Minorities and press in post-revolution Iran; Imag(in)ing Europe: the theme of emigration in North African cinema.

Representing the Muslim: the 'courtesan film' in Indian popular cinemaJewish themes in the press of independent India; Mass media and the conflict in the Middle East; In the eyes of the beholder: Israel, Jews and Zionism in the Iraqi media; The image of Jews and the State of Israel in Eastern bloc media; The portrayal of Palestinian Arabs in the Moscow Yiddish Monthly Sovetish heymland; Arab. Ru: the virtual other on.