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, Morocco MUHAMMAD 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, Canada SARAH EL RICHANI Doctoral student researching the Lebanese media system from a comparative perspective at the University of Erfurt, Germany BELKACEM MOSTEFAOUI Professor at the Ecole nationale supérieure de journalisme et des sciences de l'information in Algeria JOE 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 Beirut HUGH MILES Freelance journalist and author CAROLA RICHTER Assistant Professor for International Communication at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie University of Berlin, Germany NAOMI SAKR Professor of Media Policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, UK CHRISTA 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