Dina Matar has assembled an outstanding array of scholars whose chapters in this volume reflect and respect the diversity of political communication in the greater MENA region. The authors thoughtfully examine the region's distinctively non-Western media environments, making the book a valuable addition to the literature of evolving media practices.

Philip Seib, Professor Emeritus of Journalism and Public Diplomacy, University of Southern California, author of The Al Jazeera Effect.

There could hardly be a more important time for this collection to be published and its relevance will be felt for many years to come. This book not only reframes but also recasts what political communication means through the lens of the Middle East and North Africa region. With a clear emancipatory purpose, authors deftly take to task the field of political communication's for its "hierarchical, classist, capitalist, heteropatriarchal, elitist, imperialist, and westernized status quo". Stressing the importance of social and cultural history, the imperative of understanding war as political communications, and the necessity for scholarship to upend colonialism and its legacies, the book challenges and confronts complacency and complicity in our field and shows how it can be done otherwise. Crucial reading for everyone in the field of political communications and beyond.

Natalie Fenton, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

This collection is an essential guide to complex media landscapes across the Middle East and North Africa. The book contains deeply critical and historically contextualized accounts of diverse forms of political communications written by leading scholars. Its nine chapters focus on everything from precarious storytelling in Palestine to hate speech in Lebanon, and from new forms of activist journalism in Iraq to conflicting public spheres in Tunisia. It is required reading for anyone who sees media and culture both as instruments of state control and potential sites of resistance to imperialism and colonialism.

Des Freedman, Professor of Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK

In this extraordinarily urgent collection from Dina Matar, we finally have media and communication scholarship on the MENA region that has courageously moved from de-Westernisation to decolonisation in principles and praxes. With these incisive contributions, we have arrived at the confluence of critiques of both imperialism and capitalism.

Adel Iskandar, Professor, Simon Fraser University, Canada