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 7
Foreword 9
I. General Perspectives
on Media and Information Literacy in the MENA Region
Magda Abu-Fadil
1. Introduction 13
Alton Grizzle
2. Preliminary Comparative Analysis of Media and Information
Literacy in the MENA Region 21
Jad Melki & Lubna Maaliki
3. Helping Arab Digital and Media Literacy Blossom.
Three years of the Media and Digital Literacy Academy of Beirut (MDLAB) 41
Jordi Torrent
4. Youth and Digital Media. Drafting a Landscape from Fez and Cairo 49
II. Media and Information Literacy
in the MENA Region From State Policies to Action Research
Lucy Nuseibeh & Mohammed Abu Arqoub
5. An Overview from the Occupied Palestinian Territories 55
Abdul Ameer Al-Faisal
6. An Iraqi Perspective 79
Redouane Boujemaa
7. An Algerian Perspective 87
Abdelhamid Nfissi & Drissia Chouit
8. A Moroccan Perspective 95
Samy Tayie
9. An Egyptian Perspective 107
Yasar Durra
10. A Jordanian Perspective 115
Naifa Eid Saleem
11. An Omani Perspective 125
Magda Abu-Fadil
12. A Lebanese Perspective 133
Carmilla Floyd & Gabriella Thinz
13. Empowering Children and Youth in Tunisia 141
