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Present	Dean, GSMC, EA, Aga Khan University ‐ Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi
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Film and Media Studies

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Hate Spin: The Manufacture of Religious Offense and Its Threat ...

European Journal of Communication (2019)

Lawrence Pintak

Description: Much of this upheaval can be traced back to the media. The common misperception is that the ‘Global Village’ ...

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Article

Islam, identity and professional values: A study of journalists in ...

Journalism (2014)

Lawrence Pintak

Abstract: Islam is a religion, but it is also a philosophy. An analysis of surveys in the Arab world, Indonesia ...

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The role of the media as watch-dogs, agenda-setters and gate-keepers ...

Harvard-World Bank Workshop (2008)

Lawrence Pintak

Egypt is a place where torture is institutionalized. Human Rights Watch calls the abuse of prisoners in Egypt “epidemic,” 1 ...

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Contribution to Book

Islam, nationalism and the mission of Arab journalism: a survey ...

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: UK & Ireland (2008)

Lawrence Pintak

ABSTRACT: The Bush administration has charged that reporters at Al Jazeera and other Arab media outlets are biased against the ...

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BBC Arabic TV: A “Unique Experience” Hosam El Sokkari talks ...

Arab Media & Society (2007)

Lawrence Pintak

We all know the story: A decade ago, the BBC pulled the plug on its ill-fated Arabic TV joint venture ...

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Reflections in a bloodshot lens: America, Islam and the war ...

Islamic Studies (2006)

Lawrence Pintak

There exists today a tragic rift between Americans and the world's Muslims. Each views the other with suspicion and anger. ...

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Philosophy, religion, and science: progressive Muslims

The Middle East Journal (2004)

Lawrence Pintak

Will Islam's" silenced majority" 1 reclaim its voice or will the extremists continue to set the agenda? That is the ...

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The Release Valve of Muslim Democracy: Southeast Asia’s Emerging ...

Global Dialogue (2004)

Lawrence Pintak

Even as militant Islamists from Europe to the Philippines command headlines and the Bush administration feeds extremist sentiment with its ...

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Article

DRAFT: JOURNALISM (SAGE)

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism (2021)

Lawrence Pintak

Abstract: Islam is a religion, but it is also a philosophy. An analysis of surveys in the Arab world, Indonesia ...

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Middle Eastern and North African Journalism

The International Encyclopedia of Journalism Studies (2019)

Lawrence Pintak

Abstract: News organizations in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) have traditionally been controlled by, or largely beholden to, ...

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Mediatization in Pakistan: Perceptions of media influence on a fragile ...

Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism (2018)

Lawrence Pintak, Brian J. Bowe and Sayed Javed Nazir

A survey of Pakistani journalists, members of the policy community and media academics found that the mediatization of Pakistan is ...

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Book Review: Saba Bebawi Investigative journalism in the Arab world ...

Journalism (2018)

Lawrence Pintak

Description: Arab journalism is under siege. The latest figures suggest more Arab reporters and editors are in prison than at ...

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Mediatization in Pakistan: Perceptions of media influence on a fragile ...

Journalism (2016)

Lawrence Pintak, Brian J. Bowe and Sayed Javed Nazir

A survey of Pakistani journalists, members of the policy community and media academics found that the mediatization of Pakistan is ...

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Mediatization in Pakistan: Perceptions of Media Influence on a Fragile ...

Journalism (2016)

Lawrence Pintak, Brian J Bowe and Syed Javed Nazir

Abstract: A survey of Pakistani journalists, members of the policy community and media academics found that the mediatization of Pakistan ...

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Islam, identity and professional values: A study of journalists in ...

Journalism (2014)

Lawrence Pintak

Abstract: Islam is a religion, but it is also a philosophy. An analysis of surveys in the Arab world, Indonesia ...

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Pakistani journalism: at the crossroads of Muslim identity, national priorities ...

Media, Culture & Society (2013)

Lawrence Pintak and Syed Javed Nazir

A loosening of controls on the Pakistani media in recent years has meant the influence of Pakistani journalists is increasingly ...

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Article

Arab journalists

The global journalist in the 21st Century (2012)

Lawrence Pintak and Jeremy Ginges

Background: In the early 1950s, a former US diplomat in Beirut, Thomas McFadden (1953), surveyed journalists in Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, ...

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Journalism Education in the Pakistani Borderlands

Chronicle of Higher Education (2012)

Lawrence Pintak

Students brave roadside bombs and Taliban threats while on class assignments. Professors are kidnapped and killed. Campus radio stations get ...

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The mission of Indonesian journalism: Balancing democracy, development, and Islamic ...

The International Journal of Press/Politics (2011)

Lawrence Pintak and Budi Setiyono

Abstract: Indonesia, the world’s third largest democracy, has been called a template for Muslim political reform and has the potential ...

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Article

The Al Jazeera revolution

Foreign Policy (2011)

Lawrence Pintak

As darkness fell on Tahrir Square the night of Feb. 1, a giant makeshift TV screen broadcast Al Jazeera's live ...

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The new Arab journalist: Mission and identity in a time ...

Middle East Journal (2010)

Lawrence Pintak

The Arab media is in the midst of a revolution that will inform questions of war and peace in the ...

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Border guards of the Imagined Watan : Arab Journalists and the ...

The Middle East Journal (2009)

Lawrence Pintak

Media plays a fundamental role in the formation of national identity, most fa mously detailed in Benedict Anderson's theory of ...

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Inside the Arab newsroom: Arab journalists evaluate themselves and the ...

Journalism Studies (2009)

Lawrence Pintak and Jeremy Ginges

In the years since 9/11, much has been written about the alleged bias and lack of professionalism in the Arab ...

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Gaza: Of media wars and borderless journalism

Arab Media and Society (2009)

Lawrence Pintak

As with the 2006 Israeli war with Hizbullah, I spent the first two weeks of this conflict on a family ...

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The mission of Arab journalism: Creating change in a time ...

The International Journal of Press/Politics (2008)

Lawrence Pintak and Jeremy Ginges

In the years after 9/11, the Bush administration repeatedly charged that the Arab media are biased against the United States. ...

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