Arab Women in Arab News

Dr. Amal Mohammed Al-Malki is an Assistant Teaching Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar; David Kaufer is Professor and former Head of the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. Suguru Ishizaki is an Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Communication Design in the Department of English at Carnegie Mellon. Kira A. Dreher is a Visiting Instructor of English at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar.

Turning the representational lens inward to the Arab world, Amal Al-Malki et al reveal complex and riveting images of Arab women in Arab news.They explode Western media's active/passive binary, finding Arab women's achievements and challenges not unlike those of Western women.Using grounded theory and text-mining technologies, they systematically canvass the Arab media on Arab women with rigorous statistical data and interpretive qualitative analysis - producing a path-breaking and evocative study. Suad Joseph, University of California, Davis, USA '...innovative and intimate study...' Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy and Director, Arab Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK ...this unique study uses innovative methods to reveal patterns in the ways women feature in the Arab press; then, like a good novel, it takes us deeper into the lives of these Arab women who appear in the news Lila Abu-Lughod, Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Columbia University, US