February-March Edition of The Middle East in London Hits Newsstands
2 February 2013
The magazine is a leading resource on Middle Eastern communities in London. It includes event, film and book reviews, as well as original articles on cultural, political, economic and other issues that affect these communities.
The Middle East has been transformed, and so has its relationship with London. The city has become a global media centre, a city of Muslims and mosques, and a magnet for Middle East tourists, investors and political exiles. It has also become, as LMEI can attest, an important centre of Middle East studies.
In this issue, we revisit London’s role as a centre for Middle East media and publishing. Najm Jarrah looks at some of the factors that drew Arab editors to the city, while Naomi Sakr addresses some of the issues – of credibility, censorship and freedom of speech – that this brought to the fore. Abdel Bari Atwan tells us of his life as editor of a well-known, and oft en controversial, London-based pan-Arab newspaper. For Iranians, too, London has played an important role, both for governments in Tehran and their opponents – as Gholam Khiabany and Hossein Shahidi explain. Ehsan Masood and Sarah Searight visit some of London’s many Middle East bookshops.
