Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Marda Dunsky

Paper, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13349-4
$27.50 / £19.00

January, 2008
Cloth, 456 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-13348-7
$79.50 / £55.00

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1. The Policy Mirror

2. Reporting the Palestinian Refugee Story

3. Reporting on Israeli Settlements

4. Apex of the Spiral: Reporting the Violent Spring of 2002

5. The War at Home

6. In the Field

7. Toward a New Way of Reporting the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Notes

Index

Related Subjects

• Journalism & Media Studies
• Media Studies
• Middle East Studies

About the Author

Marda Dunsky is a former Arab affairs reporter for the Jerusalem Post and editor on the national/foreign desk of the Chicago Tribune. She has developed a unique media literacy course on American mainstream reporting of the Arab and Muslim worlds that she teaches at DePaul University. She was previously on the faculty of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Dunsky's work on U.S. media coverage of the Middle East has been published in the Journal of Islamic Law and Culture, Arab Studies Quarterly and Nieman Reports. Her op-ed pieces on the Middle East have appeared in the Chicago Tribune and other newspapers.

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