Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76919-8 - Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life Marwan M. Kraidy Index More information Index ‘Abdullah Bin ‘Abdulaziz, King of al-‘Awadhi, Muhammad, 44–5 Saudi Arabia, 150 al-A‘tar, Ayman, 152–3 ‘Abdulnasser, Gamal al-Akhbar, 85 and “Voice of the Arabs,” 151 al-Aqsa, 25 ‘Abdulwahhab, Muhammad, 68 al-Arabiya, 22, 29–30, 52, 86, 103, ‘Abdulrahman, Hisham, 91, 102 173, 177, 182 ‘Abdulaziz, Fahd Bin, 66 and Eye on Palestine, 30–1 ‘Abul Hassan, Muhammad, 127 al-Asad, Bashar, 28, 39, 154–6, 172, ‘Addoum, ‘Adnan, 180 174 ‘Adel Mu’awida, 55–6 al-Asad, Hafez, 144, 149, 156, 180 ‘Ajram, Nancy, 60, 80, 169–70 al-Asala, 48, 54 ‘Aoun, Michel, 179 al-Atrash, Rasha, 175, 189 ‘Atallah, Elias, 179 al-Ba‘th, 156, 158 ‘Attiyeh, Rowayda, 144 al-Bishr, Badreiah, 28, 101 ‘Omar, Shadha, 105 al-Bizri, Dalal, 40 ‘Omran, Hala, 52 al-hadatha. See modernity ‘Ukasha, Muhammad, 157 al-Hamad, Turki, 104 Abi Dahr, Walid, 76 al-Hamidi, Ibrahim, 158 Abu Dhabi TV, 23, 86, 209 Alhan Wa Shabab, 211–12 Abu Lughod, Lila, 7 al-Hariri family, 154, 162 Ad-Dustour, 150 al-Hariri, Nazik, 146 Advertising, 10–11, 25, 43, 83, 85, 95, al-Hariri, Rafi q, 35, 67, 78, 83, 89, 105, 150, 153, 204 144, 146, 154, 166, 168, 176, markets, 98 183, 185 slogans, 180 assassination of, 153, 160, 163, spending, 10, 52 166–7, 192 on Superstar, 148 and demonstrations, 164 women in, 13 and Future TV, 80 al-‘Alam, 23 media memorialization of, al-‘Ariss, Ibrahim, 190 167–73 245 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76919-8 - Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life Marwan M. Kraidy Index More information Index al-Hariri, Sa‘d, 186 al-Rasheed, Anas, 133 al-Hayat, 24, 40, 57, 95, 107, 109, 158, al-Rasheed, Madawi, 89, 92, 97 162, 170, 190 al-Rayyes, Ali, 135 al-Hekmi, Ibrahim, 160–1, 163 al-Risala, 25, 117 al-Hurra, 23, 177, 194 al-Riyadh, 100, 103, 105, 107 al-Hussain, Fatma, 126 al-Rshaid, ‘Aisha, 119–22 al-Ibrahim, Walid, 30–1, 51, 53, 79 al-Sabah family, 119, 122 al-Jasem, Muhammad, 123, 143 al-Sahly, Moubarak, 133 al-Jazeera, 1, 2, 19, 21–2, 28–30, 42, al-Salim, Sabah, 124 45, 50, 52, 55, 63, 66, 156, 173, al-Shatti, Bashar, 133, 196 175, 177, 182, 189, 190, 200, 216 al-Shaykh family, 68, 92 al-Khairy, Amina, 57–8 al-Tabtaba’i, Muhammad, 131 al-Khalawi, Muhammad, 91, 106 al-Tabtaba’i, Waleed, 120, 139, 196 al-Khalifa family, 47, 59 al-Tarrah, Ali, 136 al-Khazen, Jihad, 74, 76 al-Thawra, 158 al-Manar, 25, 78, 168, 177–8 al-Watan, 76, 119–20, 138, 148 al-Masry al-Youm, 200 al-Watan (The Nation), 119 al-Minbar, 48, 54 al-Wifaq, 48–9, 54 al-Misbah, Nazhem, 139 American Idol. See Superstar al-Mubarak, Ma‘ssuma, 119 Amir, al-Shu‘ara, 209–10 al-Mughni, Hala, 123–5, 127 Annahar, 83, 146, 154–5, 158, 178, al-Mujtama‘, 124 183, 185 al-Munajjid, Muhammad Saleh, Anzour, Najdat, 157 99, 114 Appadurai, Arjun, 206 al-Munla, Nadeem, 145 Arabian American Oil Company al-Muslim, Faisal, 132 (ARAMCO), 69 al-Mustaqbal, 76, 81, 154 Arab News, 73–4, 76, 102 al-Qa‘ood, ‘Abdullah, 147 Arab Satellite Television al-Qabas, 124, 131, 136 Charter, 199 al-Qaddhafi , Mu‘ammar, 22, 120 Arab Women’s Development Society al-Qassem, Anwar, 158 (AWDS), 123 al-Quds al-Arabi, 39 Armbrust, Walter, 6, 219 al-Ra’i al-Aam, 171 Asharq al-Awsat (The Middle East), al-Ra’is, 1, 13, 19, 32, 36, 44–7, 50–1, 35, 41–2, 85, 95, 104, 174–5 53–6, 58–60, 62–4, 79, 110, 140, ATV (Jordan), 23 153, 194, 198, 203, 205 Audience, 2, 14, 24–5, 52, 55, 70, 75, criticism of, 13, 15 98, 106, 113–14, 151, 159–61, format, 32 172, 182, 194 and politics, 16, 19, 41 and IPSOS-STAT, 9, 99 suspension of, 19, 32 and Pan-Arab Research Center, 9 al-Rahbani, Elias, 147 Authenticity, 7, 12–16, 42, 110, 113 al-Rashed, ‘Abdelrahman, 30, 85 and liveness, 113, 115, 175, al-Rashed, Rashed, 105 187–8, 207 246 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76919-8 - Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life Marwan M. Kraidy Index More information Index and reality TV, 137–8, 13 Daily Star, 74 and Wahhabiyya, 15, 91–3, Dakhlallah, Mehdi, 159 116–18 Dayan, Daniel, 187 Democracy, 198, 200, 203 Bahrain, 15 as contested elections, 199 and al-Ra’is debates, 16, 19, 46–82, as performance, 199 140–1, 164, 171, 192 and gap between defi nitions of, and economy, 59 199 and hawala (Islamic fi nance), 50 and political deliberation, 200 and National Charter, 48 democratization, 122, 124, 198 and political parties, 49 Dobriansky, Paula, 173 and Wahhabiyya, 141 Doumit, Samer, 171 Bahzad, Ahmed Ibrahim, 57 Dubai, xvi, 2, 9 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 112 Dubai Media City, xvi, 29, 51 Barmada, Shahd, 160–5, 196 Dubai TV, 23, 86 and the Syrian fl ag, 161 Barnett, Michael, 156 Effeminacy, 128. See also gender, Bassous, Joey, 171 muyu‘a, women BBC, 23 Egypt Satellite Channel, 79 BBC Radio, 22 Eisenstadt, Shmuel, 193, 219 Bennett, Lance, 184, 186 el-Daher, Pierre, 11, 84, 90 Bennis, Muhammad, 6, 209–10 Elster, Jon, 198 Big Brother. See al-Ra’is Entertainment-politics nexus in the Bila Hudud (No Boundaries), 1, 21, Arab world, 201–2 42, 45, 55, 66 Bin Baz, ‘Abdulaziz, 94 fatwa, 14, 93, 203 Bourdieu, Pierre, 176 on gender separation. See also Boutelfi qa, ‘Abdulaziz, 37, 211 ikhtilat, 108 Boyd, Douglas, 51, 71 in Kuwait, 131–7, 142 Brubaker, Roger, 18 on liberals, 105 Bush administration, 35, 178, 194, in Saudi Arabia, 205 199 on Star Academy, 16, 20, 37, 99–103, 131–2, 142 Cantelli, Fabrizio, 38 Felski, Rita, 13 Carazon, Diana, 146, 149–50 Free Patriotic Movement, 179, 191 Cedar Revolution. See Independence and Lebanese politics, 179 Intifada Future TV, 9, 20, 31, 42, 78, 80, CNBC-Arabiya, 25 144–9, 152, 154–5, 160–3, 175, CNN, 31, 182, 189 185, 190 Coleman, Stephen, 34 and al-Hariri’s assassination, 167, Constitutive rhetoric, 18, 164 185 Costandi, Michel, 52, 62 as a critic of the Syrian regime, Couldry, Nick, 64, 187 155, 168 247 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76919-8 - Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life Marwan M. Kraidy Index More information Index Future TV (cont.) Hourani, Albert, 5 and the March 8 demonstration, Howeidy, Fahmy, 41 177 Hybridity, 112. See also modernity and the Saudi market, 86 Hypermedia shows, 11, 85–6 events, 16, 33, 186–91 and Superstar. See Superstar space, 11, 17, 84, 186–91, 201 and youth, 201–2 Gabler, Neil, 33 García-Canclini, Néstor, 13, 29, 38, Ibn ‘Abdulwahhab, Muhammad, 92 203, 206, 212, 220 Idiom of contention, 16 Gelvin, James, 26 Ikhtilat. See gender Gender, 13 Independence Intifada, 20–1, 143, and ikhtilat, 53–4, 96–8, 103, 154, 166–91, 194 106, 111, 116, 120, 128, 132, 206 Individualism, 207 and modernity, 13 Islam, 5, 16, 46–65, 124, in Saudi Arabia, 96–8 152, 195 and Wahhabiyya, 111 Islamic shows, 25 General Agreement on Tariffs and Islamic reality shows, 211–12 Trade (GATT), 50 and politics, 37 Gharzeddin, Marwan, 105 and reality TV criticisms, 41, 44 Ghazalah, Rustum, 145, 172 and ‘ulamas, 20, 100 Giddens, Anthony, 5 Islamic Authenticity, 20, 91 Global communication studies, Islamic Shari‘a, 106 205–7 Globalization, 25, 135–6, 152, 206, Jabbour, Diana, 159 208 Jordan, 23–4, 39, 146, 148–50, 152 Green Light, 209–10 Joumblatt, Walid, 179, 183 Gulf Cooperation Council, 9, 47 Jum‘a, Ahmad, 59 Gulf War, 78, 93 Kamel, Saleh, 52, 65, 79, 82 Habermas, Jürgen, 199–200, 213, 220 Karami, ‘Omar, 174, 182 Hafez, ‘Abdulhalim, 34, 148 resignation of, 173–4 Hafi zh, Hisham and Mohammed Katz, Elihu, 187 ‘Ali, 73 Kaya, Ibrahim, 60 Haifa, 109 Khaddam, ‘Abdulhalim, 157 Haifa, Nancy and Maria, 35 Khairy, Amina, 24 Hakam al-Baba, 38–40 Khashan, Faris, 155 Hartley, John, 164 Khayyat, Tashin, 168 Hassan, ‘Ammar, 152 Khoury, Elie, 105 Hassoun, Shada, 17, 196 Khoury, Nabil, 76 Hayek, Mazen, 30 King ‘Abdulaziz Ibn ‘Abdulrahman Hizbollah, 20, 78, 86, 167–8, 174, al-Faisal al-Sa‘ud (Ibn Sa‘ud), 68 176–9, 186, 191 King Fahd Bin ‘Abdulaziz, 51 248 © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-76919-8 - Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life Marwan M. Kraidy Index More information Index Kolakowski, Leszek, 8 Lebanese-Syrian media war, 20, Kuttab, Daoud, 31 144–54 Kuwait, 15 and Shahd Barmada, 160–4 and diwaniyyas, 141 and Superstar, 144–54 and Kuwaiti press, 122, 141–2 and Superstar 3, 161–3 and Minister of Information Lebanon, 15, 19, 22, 81, 110 sacking, 20 and civil war, 74, 77–9, 144 and Star Academy debate, 142 and King Fahd’s death, 66 and Superstar debate, 143 and political system, 88 and women’s political and the politics-popular culture enfranchisement, 16, 119–27 nexus, 35 and women’s political rights, 122–6 and Star Academy, 110–13 Kuwait Television, 123–4, 133 Le Guay, Damien, 37, 43 Lerner, Daniel, 205 Liberal values, 64, 201, 208–9 L’Orient L’Express, 183 Loft Story, 36–7 Labaki, Nadine, 170 Lahoud, Emile, 82–3, 145, 167, 180 and unconstitutional extension, Mansour, Ahmad, 1, 42–3 154 MBC, 1, 11, 31, 60, 87, 202, 205 LBC, 31, 42, 62, 78, 204 and Arab traditions and values, 61 and aesthetic, 80–1, 109–11 and Man Sa-Yarbah al Malyoun and al-Hadath, 86 (Who Wants to Be a and al-Hairiri’s assassination, Millionaire?), 32, 79 167–71 MBC 2, 52–3 and conspicuous liberalism, and Nour (Light), 205 109–10 origins of, 31, 51–2 and format, 109 programming, 11, 80, 87, 205 and Islam, 82 shows on, 25 and the Lebanese-Syrian media McClintock, Anne, 163 war, 177 Media ritual, 117, 180–2