Contents

pp iii-iv

List of Tables

pp v-vi

Introduction

pp 1-28

I - The Press as National Voice

pp 29-30

1 - News Publishing as a Reflection of Public Opinion: The Idea of News during the Ottoman Financial Crises

pp 31-57

2 - Disruptions of the Local, Eruptions of the Feminine: Local Reportage and National Anxieties in Egypt's 1890s

pp 58-98

3 - The Arabic Palestinian Press between the Two World Wars

pp 99-125

4 - Falastin: An Experiment in Promoting Palestinian Nationalism through the English-language Press

pp 126-150

II - The Rise of the Journalist

pp 151-152

5 - Press Propaganda and Subaltern Agents of Pan-Islamic Networks in the Muslim Mediterranean World prior to World War I

pp 153-175

6 - 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 (1908–17)

pp 176-206

7 - From Intellectual to Professional: The Move from ‘Contributor’ to ‘Journalist’ at Ruz al-Yusuf in the 1920s and 1930s

pp 207-234

III - Critical, Dissident Voices

pp 235-236

8 - The Anarchist Press in Egypt before World War I

pp 237-264

9 - The Ethiopian War as Portrayed in the Italian Fascist and Antifascist Press in Tunisia

pp 265-287

10 - A Voice from Below in the 1940s Egyptian Press: The Experience of the Workers’ Newspaper Shubra

pp 288-320

IV - The Press as Community Voice

pp 321-322

11 - The Lamp, Qasim Amin, Jewish Women and Baghdadi Men: A Reading in the Jewish Iraqi Journal al-Misbah

pp 323-344

12 - From a Privileged Community to a Minority Community: The Orthodox Community of Beirut through the Newspaper Al-Hadiyya

pp 345-370

Notes on the Contributors

pp 371-375

Index

pp 376-386