The Press in the Middle East and North Africa, 1850-1950 Politics, Social History and Culture

Anthony Gorman is Senior Lecturer in Modern Middle Eastern History at the University of Edinburgh. He is co-editor (with Sossie Kasbarian) of Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualising Community (Edinburgh University Press, 2015) and co-editor (with Marilyn Booth) of The Long 1890s in Egypt: Colonial Quiescence, Subterranean Resistance (Edinburgh University Press, 2014).

Didier Monciaud is a PhD candidate in Middle Eastern History at Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris and Associate Research Fellow at Groupe de recherche sur le Maghreb et le Moyen Orient, University Diderot Paris VI, Paris.

Introduction: Anthony Gorman and Didier Monciaud

I. The Press as National Voice
News Publishing as a Reflection of Public Opinion: The Idea of News during the Ottoman Financial Crises, Gül Karagöz Kizilca
Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt's 1890s, Marilyn Booth
The Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars, Mustafa Kabha
Falastin: An Experiment in Promoting Palestinian Nationalism through the English-Language Press, Fred Lawson

II. The Rise of the Journalist
Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I, Odile Moreau
The Publicist and his Newspaper in Syria in the Era of the Young Turk Revolution, between Reformist Commitment and Political Pressures: Muhammad Kurd 'Ali and al-Muqtabas (1908-1917), Kais Ezzerelli
From Intellectual to Professional: the Move from 'Contributor' to 'Journalist' at Ruz al-Yusuf in the 1920s and 1930s, Sonia Temimi

III: Critical, Dissident Voices
The Anarchist Press in Egypt before the First World War, Anthony Gorman
The War in Ethiopia in the Italian Fascist and anti-Fascist Press in Tunisia in the 1930s, Leila El Houssi
A Voice from Below in the 1940s Egyptian Press: the Experience of the Workers Newspaper Shubra, Didier Monciaud

IV: The Press as Community Voice
The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women, and Baghdadi Men - A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah, Orit Bashkin
From a Privileged Community to a Minority Community: The Orthodox Community of Beirut through the Newspaper al-Hadiyya, Souad Slim