...Serkan Gorkemli This article focuses on the Internet as a “digital closet” in the context of Turkish lesbian and gay activism in the 1990s and early 2000s. In its analysis of media and sexual discourse, the article first discusses traditional media, such as the printing press and television. While...

... on the Internet, discourses of protectorship, valorizations of mobility in cyberspace and diasporic imaginations, and the political and economic opportunities for neoliberal entrepreneurship and expertise during the war on terror. In this process, the normative Iranian homosexual is produced as a victim...

... to fully understand Egypt’s contemporary political culture, we must also understand the ways and words that individuals use to describe their lives on the Internet. Evaluating colonization and imported modes of policing, censorship, identity formation, geographical location, and a stirring national...

..., and sexuality. For the mainstream media, as well as for many Facebook and Twitter users, Amina often appeared as the new hero of computer revo- lutions,1 as a brave and Internet-savvy young woman. In the early days of June, the media’s attention focused on Amina’s disappearance. She was assumed to have...

.... Rita Stephan  mn  83 Online environments can contribute to furthering “the fragmen- tation of identity” (Kolko, Nakamura, and Rodman 2000, 5), and their safety is often contested. Cyber-snooping and data-mining is becoming more widespread. However, the Internet does provide safety from...

... by, and shatter, the widespread liberal democratic claim about “the internet as the bedrock of revolutionary movement in the Middle East” and “the internet as the subversive opposite of the nation” (39, 65). This claim, for Shakhsari, “misses the point that Weblogistan and other sites of civil society...

... of contraception. transnational Islam emergency contraception cyberfatwa reproductive health internet “Emergency contraception” (EC) refers to an array of medications and devices that can be taken after sexual intercourse to reduce the risk of pregnancy. This class of postcoital contraception...

...- Gulfian community, with the Internet serving as a mediator for the pro- duction of a queer imaginary. While the boyah signifies a shared system of cultural representation within the region of the Arab Gulf, national specificity is often articulated within such queer self-stylizations. For example...

..., and demographic information. Through their profiles, users engage in embodied practices of masculinity and sexuality that influence subjectivity via their online visibility.  n Lebanon, the Internet has become more than a gateway into global Iflows of queer culture (McCormick 2006); queer...

..., to debate issues other than those aired in the official media and outside the control of the authorities (Al-Qarni 2004 ). Al-Qarni also points out that “the Internet has not only been a public sphere where Arabs exchange views and formulate opinions regarding political issues, but also a place...

... culture through social media. Through this study I also demonstrate how fandom activities on social media and the internet provide a channel for Iranian women to engage in autonomous social activities. Simultaneously, I show how global popular culture, a highly controversial subject in Iran, has...

... themselves publicly visible, expressive, and mobile. Previously, women’s writing had been limited to those who were professional writers or had some literary talent, but with the emergence of the new Internet technol- ogy and the phenomenon of weblog writing or blogging, women’s writ- ing gained...

... to the slow development of broadband internet infrastructure, the high cost of high-speed internet, and high illiteracy rates, television and radio are the dominant forms of media (Osman 2020 ). Although digital media are slowly gaining traction, their access and usage are still limited in Eurasia...

... Sakr’s ambitious volume focuses on social relations, on how Middle Eastern women shape and are shaped by the press, television, and internet. Chapters span the region from Morocco to Iran, incorporate a variety of disciplinary approaches, and examine a range of media topics from early twentieth...

... and contesting” the hegemony of authoritarian political and/or reli- gious centers (Eickelman and Anderson 1999:1). New communications technologies, including fax, telephone and the Internet, are creating a new sense of accountability toward a public that is increasingly challenging...

... that is mainly concerned with sharing stories of struggle and solidarity and that wishes to avoid orientalism and savior voyeurism, it seeks, for the moment, to not be significantly exposed on the internet. Since its third issue Zaʾfaraan has been able to secure funding to compensate poets and artists...

... expressions. The organization presented its official registration documents as an LGBT rights group to the Lebanese government in 2004. But its inception dates to 1998, as increased Internet access in Lebanon led to the establishment of queer social groups, such as the Gay Lebanon forum and mailing list...

... and political divide; others congratulated the Internet for bringing people together, echoing the celebratory tone of the “Facebook revolu- tions” narrative so prevalent during the “Arab Spring.”2 On the other hand, critical voices noted, for example, the inequality of Internet access...

... of the programs’ intended messages. Th e empowering potential of new media has sparked much opti- mistic speculation. While pan-Arab satellite stations operate under the control of ruling elites, the internet seems a more democratic instrument. Yet Deborah Wheeler argues that web access in the Arab...

... instantiations. While the principal focus is on the movement of the categories of éffeminés, gigolos, and MSMs, it also considers the conditions of possibility for the emergence of a gay movement in Tunisia, enhanced by Internet- based technologies. Analysis is derived from ethnographic field...