Middle East specialist <a style="margin-left:3px" href="http://www.josephbraude.com&quot; target="_blank">Joseph Braude</a> is the author of <a target="_blank" href="https://www.amazon.com/Broadcasting-Change-Arabic-Catalyst-Liberalism/d… Change: Arabic Media as a Catalyst for Liberalism</a> (Rowman &amp; Littlefield). He is Advisor to the <a target="_blank" href="http://mesbar.org/bio/#post-4471">Al-Mesbar Center</a> for Research and Studies and tweets<a target="blank" style="margin-left:3px" href="https://twitter.com/josephbraude?lang=en">@josephbraude</a&gt;.

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