Communication and the culture of democracy: global media and promotion of democracy in the Middle East.

From: International Journal of Instructional Media | Date: January 1, 2003| Author: Al-Obaidi, Jabbar | Copyright information

INTRODUCTION

The Middle East refers to the lands around the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea, extending from Morocco to the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. In this paper, however, the Middle East term refers to the Arab countries in specific. The central part of this general area was formerly called the Near East, a name given to it by some of the first modern Western geographers and historians (Encyclopedia Britannica.) The Middle East in general and the...

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