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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 August 2008
The previous excerpt is taken from a column by Syrian journalist Hakam al-Baba, published in the London-based Pan-Arab newspaper al-Quds al-ʿArabi. Al-Baba, a middle-aged Syrian journalist known for his biting sarcasm, has written some of the most perceptive critiques of Syrian and Arab media, including a famous 2005 article in the Syrian daily Tishreen, in which he relates his experience of harassment by the mukhābarāt. In the excerpted column, al-Baba uses the raging Pan-Arab controversies over reality TV for a critique of Arab political dependence on the United States.
1 Hakam al-Baba, “The Camera Rules the World: A Star Academy for Arab Leaders,” al-Quds al-ʿArabi, 6 April 2005 (in Arabic).
2 See Marwan M. Kraidy, “Governance and Hypermedia in Saudi Arabia,” First Monday 11 (September 2006), http://firstmonday.org/issues/special1_9/kraidy/index.html (accessed 1 March 2008), and Marwan M. Kraidy, “Reality Television and Politics in the Arab World: Preliminary Observations,” Transnational Broadcasting Studies 15 (Fall/Winter 2006), www.arabmediasociety.com/?article=37 (accessed 1 March 2008).