Contribution of the Media to the Reforms in the Arab World

Even in transformation processes the media play an essential role as guard and facilitator of the on-going developments. With the new publication „The New Media and Sociopolitical Change in the Arab World“ the publishers, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies, consider in detail the current trend of satellite broadcasting and analyze in case studies the effects of this medium in the field of democratization and change in the Arab world.