This first peer-reviewed print edition of the well-established e-journal Transnational Broadcasting Studies (TBS) focuses on the Arabic pop video and includes articles by Oxford anthropologist Walter Armbrust and popular Muslim preacher Amr Khaled, as well as an interview with Ruby, the Egyptian pop idol. The volume also covers other hot topics related to Arab satellite broadcasting, such as the competition between 24-hour Arabic news channels Aljazeera and Al Arabiya, the ethnography of Syrian drama, and a closer look at the US-funded Arabic channel Alhurra. Contributors include Jon Alterman, Michael Hudson, Marc Lynch, Hugh Miles, William Rugh, Tarik Sabry, Naomi Sakr, Christa Salamandra, S. Abdallah Schleifer, and Mark Whitaker. Published by the Adham Center for Television Journalism, the American University in Cairo and the Middle East Centre, St. Antony’s College, University of Oxford. “I consider TBS one of the most avant-garde information sources on the Arab media revolution.”—Fatima Mernissi, Mohamed V University, Rabat “TBS Journal has been an indispensable resource to all those with a keen interest in Arab media, providing both credible scholarly research and thoughtful provocative commentary.”—Adel Iskandar, University of Kentucky “TBS does a superb job of covering one of the most important areas of global communications—the impact of Arab and Islamic satellite television. . . . It is an indispensable resource.”—Philip Seib, Lucius W. Nieman Professor of Journalism, Marquette University