Transforming International Communication: Media, Culture and Society in the Middle East brings together 15 chapters that analyse a wide variety of issues and cases concerning the interrelations between media and social change and their capacity for shaping the current social and political discourses in the Arab world. The book provides an understanding of how contemporary media can shape practices of organizing, decision making and mobilization in the Arab world. Topics ranging from the Arab Spring, political discourse, social activism, women's rights to terrorism and countries from Israel to Oman are examined in terms of how new media are reshaping lives and politics in the Middle East. The multidisciplinary approach to new media and society presented in this book will open new avenues and discussion on the role of the new media in social transformation and empowerment. This book is a valuable resource for those readers who are interested in international communication, new media, communication studies, development studies, women's empowerment, e-governance and the political economy of communication.