@conference {67,
	title = {Mediated Islam: Media Religion Interface in the Middle East},
	booktitle = {Hamrin International Media Conference},
	year = {2009},
	month = {October 2009},
	address = {J{\"o}nk{\"o}ping, Sweden},
	abstract = {Media{\textquoteright}s secular narratives presume that media should be agent of social change directed by project of modernity. The media is supposed to take a shift from pre modern to modern, oppressive to free, from hierarchical to egalitarian, tyrannical to democratic, religious to secular and from backward to enlightened position. The European originated narratives helped western TV channels to shift their dependency from states to the markets. However Muslim societies in Arab Islamic world are not convinced with this project and media of the Muslim world remained critical to secular narratives of media, although supportive to the professional etiquettes. With these apprehensions, Arab Televisions in general and Islamic religious channels in particular have developed their own Arab Islamic narratives. With these two hypothetical boundaries of media religion interface in the Middle East, question of Islam will be main domain of inquiry in this paper. Ignoring the role of media in the Middle East, focus will be on dynamics of Islamic media. There is gap in Arab Islamic media scholarship on how Islamic programming are determined by inter Islamic rivalries. Mediation of Islam as a process continues with all complexities and reconstructs alternative narrations like Pan Islamism, Pan Arabism, and Cultural Islam etc. It requires a framework which includes region{\textquoteright}s own cultural and religious properties.},
	keywords = {interface, Islam, Middle East, Muslim},
	url = {http://jnu.academia.edu/documents/0043/7626/Mediated_Islam_Paper.pdf},
	author = {Omair Anas}
}
@book {1295,
	title = {The New Arab Man: Emergent Masculinities, Technologies, and Islam in the Middle East},
	year = {2012},
	publisher = {Princeton University Press },
	organization = {Princeton University Press },
	abstract = {Middle Eastern Muslim men have been widely vilified as terrorists, religious zealots, and brutal oppressors of women. The New Arab Man challenges these stereotypes with the stories of ordinary Middle Eastern men as they struggle to overcome infertility and childlessness through assisted reproduction.

Drawing on two decades of ethnographic research across the Middle East with hundreds of men from a variety of social and religious backgrounds, Marcia Inhorn shows how the new Arab man is self-consciously rethinking the patriarchal masculinity of his forefathers and unseating received wisdoms. This is especially true in childless Middle Eastern marriages where, contrary to popular belief, infertility is more common among men than women. Inhorn captures the marital, moral, and material commitments of couples undergoing assisted reproduction, revealing how new technologies are transforming their lives and religious sensibilities. And she looks at the changing manhood of husbands who undertake transnational "egg quests"--set against the backdrop of war and economic uncertainty--out of devotion to the infertile wives they love.

Trenchant and emotionally gripping, The New Arab Man traces the emergence of new masculinities in the Middle East in the era of biotechnology.},
	keywords = {Arab, Islam, male, Masculinities, men, Middle East, Muslim, stereotypes, Technologies},
	url = {http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9758.html},
	author = {Marcia C. Inhorn}
}
