Title Covering the Shi`a : English press representation of the Lebanese Shi`a 1975-1985 / Robert Tomlinson.

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Description	1 online resource (xxvii, 151 pages)
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Musa al-Sadr and the Shià narratives in Lebanon -- The Shià expulsion from Nabà -- The effects of the Iranian revolution on the Lebanese Shià -- The Israeli invasion of Lebanon 1982 -- Epilogue.
Summary	This book contrasts Western media coverage of the Lebanese Shià with their own narrative constructed during the 1975-1985 time frame. Robert Tomlinson reveals how the coverage of a critical population in Lebanon was misrepresented and how that misrepresentation haunts Western media coverage of the group today.
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Subject	Ṛadr, Mūsá.
	Ṛadr, Mūsá.
	Shīʻah -- History -- Press coverage -- Lebanon.
	Shīʻah.
	History.
	Press coverage.
	Lebanon -- History -- Civil War, 1975-1990 -- Press coverage.
	Lebanon.
	LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Journalism.
	Lebanese Civil War (Lebanon : 1975-1990)
Chronological Term	1975-1990
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Print version: Tomlinson, Robert, 1952 October 24- Covering the Shià. Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2018 9781498565486 (DLC) 2018040851
ISBN	9781498565486 (electronic book)
	1498565484 (electronic book)
	9781498565479 (hardcover ; alkaline paper)