Essential reading not only for those specializing in the Middle East, but for anyone concerned with the impact of the digital revolution more generally. Never before in history has cutting-edge technology gone straight to all sectors of the world and en masse to the less-privileged as well as the affluent. The consequences in a sub-continent in which tradition and engrained structures of power remain strong are complex indeed, but brilliantly traced out by the authors. * Anthony Giddens, Life Fellow of King's College, Cambridge, and Member of the House of Lords in the UK * Zayani and Khalil offer a welcome and significant contribution to our critiques of discourses that simplify and essentialize 'digital' and 'Middle East.' This volume deftly moves beyond binaries, creatively proposing a double bind framework that invokes fluid movements of people and technologies. It is a critical reminder that communication needs to be understood in historical and social contexts, as well as global political and economic structures. * Karin Wilkins, author of Prisms of Prejudice * In this skillfully written and thought-provoking book, Zayani and Khalil take readers to a Middle East few Westerners know. Complex, conflicted, and creative, the region, as this important work describes, is accelerating into the information age with big plans and even bigger uncertainties. * Vincent Mosco, author of The Smart City in a Digital World * Zayani and Khalil's comprehensive and conceptually ambitious review of media in the Middle East makes an important and much-needed contribution to debates on technology and regionalization generally. This is a landmark study in the de-westernization of media research. We have needed a book like this for a long time! * Nick Couldry, London School of Economics and Political Science * In bringing together so many aspects of the digital turn in the Middle East, this book contributes to our understanding of how various areas of digital engagement-from blogs to esports, from e-government to cybercrime-have developed there, as well as how these disparate areas connect in a broader, but deeply variegated, digital ecosystem. It would be a valuableaddition to courses focused on Middle East politics, economics, society, and religion, in addition to communications-specific courses. * Andrea Stanton, Project Muse * The Digital Double Bind provides a thorough overview of the digital transformation in the Middle East, highlighting the region's unique challenges and opportunities. This book is a must-read for scholars and practitioners interested in the intersection of technology, politics, and culture in the Global South. * William Lafi Youmans, International Journal of Communication *
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