Civic Discourse and Digital Age Communications in the Middle East Hardcover - 2000

LEO A. GHER is Associate Professor and Director fo the Brown Media Management Lab housed at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. Director Gher is credited with nore than 75 educational and professional presentations and publications. He is member of the editorial board of Transitional Broadcasting Studies and is author of a forthcoming text, The Art & Science of Media Economics: Marketing & Management Strategies for the 21st Century. GHer comes to academia from a professional background, and is widely recognized as an expert in media economics, cross-cultural communications, and management.

HUSSEIN Y. AMIN is Associate Professor and Senior Fellow in the School of Business, Economics and Communications at the American University in Cairo. He is founding board member of the Arab-U.S. Assocaition for Communication Educators, the senior editor of Transitional Broadcasting Studies, on the editorial board of the Journal of African Studies, and memebr fo the advisory board of the Journal of International Communication. Dr. Amin is acknowledged as the foremost authority on Arab media regulation and privatization, and global braodcasting in developing countries