A succinct and accessible book, with many chapters that can stand alone as
readings for undergraduate or graduate classes, Media Framing of the Muslim
World: Conflicts, Crises, and Contexts is a welcome addition to the literature
on Muslims and the media. The authors build on three key concepts: the idea
that the media should function, but often does not, as the fourth estate (an independent
and critical press); Edward Said’s Orientalism(the West as the perpetually
superior Other who must represent the Orient, which is incapable of
doing so itself), and in its modern form, Islamophobia; and the importance of
history and context in understanding key events in the Muslim world (as distinct
from religious determinism).
American Journal of Islamic Social Sciences