Reporting Political Islam and Democracy

Mohammed-Ali Abunajela is a Visiting Academic Fellow at Bournemouth University, UK and Amnesty International’s Regional Media Manager for the MENA region. Previously, he served as Communications Advisor at the BBC World Service in London, and Media and Communications Lead at Oxfam GB in Oxford. He holds a PhD degree in Media Studies and MSc in International Political Communications, Advocacy and Campaigning, from the UK. For years, he worked with international news and humanitarian organisations including the BBC, Oxfam, AFP, and ARTE TV.Nael Jebril is Associate Professor at the Doha Institute for Graduate Studies and Senior Lecturer in Journalism at Bournemouth University, UK, where he served as Head of the Media and Communication postgraduate program. Previously, he was an Academic Fellow at Oxford University’s Department of Politics and International Relations and the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism. He is a Fellow of the UK Higher Education Academy and a co-recipient of the 2016 Harvard’s Goldsmith Book Prize and the 2018 International Journal of Press/Politics Best Book Award.

• 1. Introduction2. Al Jazeera Media Discourse: Data and Analyses3. Al Jazeera, Arab Media and Democratisation 4. The Muslim Brotherhood: Key Opposition Power in Egypt5. Media Ideology and Religion Framing6. Al-Jazeera's Without Borders: A Platform for Islamists?7. Al-Jazeera's Opposite Direction: Political Islam and Democratisation 8. Inside Al Jazeera: Values, Perceptions and Editorial Judges9. Conclusion

The book and its authors through painstaking and cumbersome examination and analysis of AJA programs has very well rendered it clear that AJA has opened up a new era in the reporting from the Arab world.