The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa

Loubna H. Skalli is currently a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Washington Program, Washington DC, USA. She has subject area expertise in the politics of development, youth, gender, and communication in MENA. Nahed Eltantawy is Professor of journalism and Associate Dean in the Nido R. Qubein School of Communication at High Point University, USA. Her subject area expertise includes media representation, gender issues, social media activism, Middle East media, critical and cultural studies.

 1. Introduction.- Section 1 Gender identities and sexualities.- 2. Loving Daughters, Devoted Sons and Kissing Protestors Online: Navigating Intimacy and Multiple Aspects of the Self among Young Facebook Users in Egypt.- 3. Making Visible the Unseen Queer: Gay Dating Apps and Ideologies of Truthmaking in an Outing Campaign in Morocco.- 4. Queer Resistance and Activism in Upon the Shadow.- 5. Saudi Women in the Mohammed bin Salman Era: Examining the Paradigm Shift.- Section 2: Gender and Activism.- 6. Mothering the protest: Gender performativity as a communication mechanism in the Iraqi protest movement.- 7. Iraq's October Revolution: Between Structures of Patriarchy and Emotion.- 8. Blogging in the pre-war Syria. Female Voices from within and Authoritarian regime and patriarchal society.- 9. Syrian women in the digital sphere.- 10. Following in Gezi's steps: Women's activism after the Gezi protests.- 11. Egypt's #Metoo in the Shadow of Revolution: Digital Activism and the Demobilization of the Sexual Harassment Movement.- Section 3: The Gender of Politics.- 12. Women and Politics in the Islamic Republic of Iran: The Role of Women's Magazines.- 13. Oman's women and in the media navigating political and social powers: Females' Election campaigns versus traditional media.- 14. The Intersection of Politics, Gender, and Media: Female Politicians in Popular Israeli Women's Magazines.- 15. Seizing the Opportunity: Political Participation of Libyan Women and their Partaking in Communication Platforms.-16. Facebook's Role in Empowering Egyptian Women During COVID-19: Case of the 2020 Parliamentary Elections.-  Section 4: Gender-Based Violence.- 17. Digital Intimacy and Violence in Contemporary Libya.- 18. Palestinian women's digital activism against gender-based violence: Navigating transnational and social media spaces.- 19. Uncovering Narratives; the effects of Algerian media and legal system on domestic violence survivors.- 20. Egyptian Women's Cyberactivism: The ongoing battle against sexual harassment & gender-based violence.- 21. "Don't touch me": Sexual harassments, digital threats, and social resistance toward Kuwaiti female journalists.- 22. Gender in Yemeni media: Hostility and marginalization in a fractured media.- Section 5: The Gender of Expressive Cultures.- 23. Redefining the Archive: Birdsong, Tied Circles, and Woman-Space in Dunya Mikhail's In Her Feminine Sign.- 24. Feminism ruptured, or feminism repaired? Music, feminisms, and gender politics in Palestinian subcultures.- 25. Moroccan Hip Hop Queens: A (Her)Story of Rap Music in Morocco.- 26. Women artists and contemporary art in the Maghreb: insights from the works of Aicha Filali, Sana Tamzini, and Khadija Tnana.- 27. Laughable resistance? The role of humor in Middle Eastern women's social media empowerment.- 28. Egyptian Women's Graffiti and the Construction of Future Imaginaries.- Section 6: Gender and Entrepreneurship.- 29. ICTs Impact on Female Entrepreneurs in Lebanon and UAE.- 30. Gender and ICT entrepreneurship in Jordan and Kuwait.- 31. Disruptive Social Entrepreneurship from Bahrain: The Case of Esra'a Al Shafei.