National Broadcasting and State Policy in Arab Countries

AÂRAB ISSIALI Head of the ISIC (Institut Supérieur de l'Information et de la Communication) in Rabat, MoroccoMUHAMMAD AYISH holds a doctoral degree in international communication and public diplomacy from the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities and is currently on research leave in Ottawa, CanadaSARAH EL RICHANI Doctoral student researching the Lebanese media system from a comparative perspective at the University of Erfurt, GermanyBELKACEM MOSTEFAOUI Professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure de journalisme et des sciences de l'information in AlgeriaJOE F. KHALIL Assistant Professor, Northwestern University in Qatar MARWAN M KRAIDY Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania and the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of BeirutHUGH MILES Freelance journalist and authorCAROLA RICHTER Assistant Professor for International Communication at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie University of Berlin, GermanyNAOMI SAKR Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, UKCHRISTA SALAMANDRA Visiting Professor at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden, and Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, USA

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