Abstract
This article discusses the role of Arab transnational satellite television channels such as Al-Jazeera, Arab Radio and Television (ART), Nile Drama, the Middle East Broadcasting Center (MBC), Dubai TV, AbuDhabi TV, Future, the Lebanese Broadcasting Corporation (LBC), and Al-Arabiya in connecting Arab diasporic communities outside the Arab world with their Arab native countries in particular and the Arab world in general. Such satellite channels, within approximately a decade, not only have become a major force in reporting and disseminating the news but are in reality acting as anchors in several areas of behaviour, such as televising Friday prayers and Sunday church sermons as well as showing Westernized entertainment programs. Hence, these satellite channels have simultaneously acted as agents both of cultural change and of cultural maintenance vis-a-vis the host societies. This article explores their role in the creation of a virtual Arab world and the facilitation of crosscultural communica...
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