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Why would a pan-Arab TV station launched from Beirut in 2012, at a moment when new political solutions were on activist agendas from Morocco to Bahrain, invoke icons and slogans from a bygone era as evidence of its 'progressive' credentials? Through this lucid, readable and fascinating examination of cultural production at a single broadcast institution, Christine Crone gets to grips with a pervasive ideological struggle to resolve contradictory values that resonates not only across the Arab world but internationally. -Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy, University of Westminster

Why would a pan-Arab TV station launched from Beirut in 2012, at a moment when new political solutions were on activist agendas from Morocco to Bahrain, invoke icons and slogans from a bygone era as evidence of its 'progressive' credentials? Through this lucid, readable and fascinating examination of cultural production at a single broadcast institution, Christine Crone gets to grips with a pervasive ideological struggle to resolve contradictory values that resonates not only across the Arab world but internationally. -Naomi Sakr, Professor of Media Policy, University of Westminster This book is an original analysis of media practices and representations of the past as they play out on the television station al-Mayadeen. By coining the term The New Regressive Left, Crone offers a new framework for exploring the ideological space between authoritarian politics and revolutionary nostalgia in which part of the contemporary Left in the Middle East operates. -Sune Haugbolle, Professor of Global Studies, Roskilde University

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Christine Crone received her Ph.D. from University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. She is currectly Postdoc, University of Copenhagen, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

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