In the last two decades, the impact of the ongoing communication revolution on economy, politics and culture has been a major theme in academic and media debates and in the policy-making circles of governments and international bodies. Although new media technologies are transforming the entire world including the Middle East, these debates have largely focused on Western societies.

This book provides the first study of the transformation of a Middle Eastern society, Kurdistan, in the context of the introduction of printing, recorded music, radio, television, and the Internet. It analyzes the complex and often conflictual interactions of media technologies, culture, statehood, nationalism and globalization.