Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa

It is with great pleasure that this volume Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa is presented as Yearbook 2016 from the International Clearinghouse on Children, Youth and Media, at Nordicom. The Yearbook is published in cooperation with UNESCO and UNAOC.

Opportunities for Media and Information Literacy in the Middle East and North Africa is the seventeenth Yearbook published by the Clearinghouse and fills a gap in the existing body of literature about the progress of media and information literacy work in different parts of the world. We believe it is of particular interest to shed light on a region, the MENA region, where young citizens’ engagement with media has been in focus in news reporting all over the world in recent years and awareness of MIL competencies is gaining ground.

Contents

• Preface
• Foreword
• I. General Perspectives on Media and Information Literacy in the MENA Region
  • 1. Introduction 
    Magda Abu-Fadil
  • 2. Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Media and Information: Literacy in the MENA Region 
    Alton Grizzle
  • 3. Helping Arab Digital and Media Literacy Blossom: Three years of the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (MDLAB) 
    Jad Melki & Lubna Maaliki
  • 4. Youth and Digital Media. Drafting a Landscape from Fez and Cairo 
    Jordi Torrent
     
• II. Media and Information Literacy in the MENA Region From State Policies to Action Research
  • 5. An Overview from the Occupied Palestinian Territories 
    Lucy Nuseibeh & Mohammed Abu Arqoub
  • 6. An Iraqi Perspective 
    Abdul Ameer Al-Faisal
  • 7. An Algerian Perspective 
    Redouane Boujemaa 
  • 8. A Moroccan Perspective 
    Abdelhamid Nfissi & Drissia Chouit
  • 9. An Egyptian Perspective 
    Samy Tayie
  • 10. A Jordanian Perspective 
    Yasar Durra
  • 11. An Omani Perspective 
    Naifa Eid Saleem
  • 12. A Lebanese Perspective 
    Magda Abu-Fadil 
  • 13. Empowering Children and Youth in Tunisia 
    Carmilla Floyd & Gabriella Thinz