Palestinians, News and the Diasporic Condition

Betweenstrategic nostalgiaandbanal nomadism: Explorations of transnational subjectivity among Arab audiences

“…However, the vast majority of Arabic speakers in Europe have migrated in the 20th and 21st century (Fargues, 2004). The Arab world has marked its cultural presence in Europe in new ways during the last few decades, especially through satellite television (Kraidy, 2010; Matar, 2007; Sakr, 2007).…”

“…1 Satellite television has played a key role in the diversification of television viewing and consequently of spaces of belonging. Matar (2007) writes that Palestinian audiences in Britain have access to a variety of broadcast channels with different orientations and claims on their audiences. The variety of media available to these audiences challenges polarizing discourses of ‘us’ and ‘them’ (Matar, 2007).…”

“…Matar (2007) writes that Palestinian audiences in Britain have access to a variety of broadcast channels with different orientations and claims on their audiences. The variety of media available to these audiences challenges polarizing discourses of ‘us’ and ‘them’ (Matar, 2007). While the disruption of singular and clearly bounded spaces though access to a variety of television channels has been confirmed in our study, essentialist discourses have not been absent.…”

Arab Television in Academic Scholarship

“…Christa Salamandra's work (1998, 2005) analyzes Syrian drama series producers’ ambivalence during a period of a local and global socialist demise, and promise of national democracy. Recent works by emerging scholars also show promise of a new turn in Arab media studies of ethnographies with audience members and media producers, such as Dina Matar's (2007b) research on diasporic Palestinian viewers in Britain, and Amahl Bishara's (2006) analysis of Palestinian journalists, both of which also problematize the spatial dimension of the ‘Arab’ (or in their case specifically Palestinian) world. Finally, Imad Karam's (2007) research engages with the (often exclusionary) impact of pan‐Arab satellite TV on the largest segment of the Arab population: the youth.…”