Virtual Book Rap features 'From Terrorism to Television' on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 p.m.
National Press Club member Qaisar Abbas plans to discuss the book he co-edited with Farooq Sulehria at a Virtual Book Rap on Wednesday, Sept. 30, at 7 pm.
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The contents of From Terrorism to Television, Dyanamics of Media, State and Society in Pakistan includes chapters by "prominent and emerging journalists, as well as academic scholars from Pakistan, Australia, Britain and the United States," according to a press release about the book.
The book dissects various contemporary issues such as freedom of expression, jihadi media contents and terrorism, TV talk shows and press coverage of Kashmir, harassment of women journalists, coverage of Osama bin Laden's killing, an Oscar-winning documentary on women’s suffrage and “the peripheral provinces in the mainstream media,” according to the press release.
From Terrorism to Television also features media images of women such as Malala Yousufzai, a Pakistani activist who stood up for women’s rights and female education in the Swat Valley in Northwest Pakistan where the Taliban had banned girls from attending school. For her advocacy, she was the youngest ever to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
Abbas is a media scholar who has served several universities in the U.S. as a communications faculty member and assistant dean. He is a consultant on media strategies and regularly writes for academic journals, newspapers, on media issues, freedom of expression and South Asian affairs. He has a doctorate in mass communication from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a master’s degree from Iowa State University.
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