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The Link ArchivesTitle: The Arab Stereotype on Television About This Issue Jack G. Shaheen is a Fulbright scholar who spent the academic year 1974-75 conducting research on Middle East media systems and teaching mass communication at the American University of Beirut. Now professor of mass communications at Southern Illinois University, Dr. Shaheen has worked as a television newsman and arts critic and has written numerous articles on the stereotyping of Arabs for national and international publications. His feature article in this issue of The Link is the result of his research for an upcoming book intended to make television producers and executives more aware of the media’s responsibility to reflect a wide range of positive roles for all people. Photos are courtesy of ABC-TV, CBS-TV, Columbia Pictures Television and NBC-TV. Our book review selection, Perspectives on the State of Israel, contains readings collected and annotated by Cathy Mellett, a graduate student at the Acadia Divinity College in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Our book reviewer, Dr. Henry Fischer, is Curator in Egyptology at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City and member of AMEU’s Board of Directors. Americans for Middle East Understanding is pleased to announce the formation of its National Council. Distinguished Americans from the fields of business, education, government service and religion were invited to lend the prestige of their names in support of our effort—now in its thirteenth year—to create in America a deeper understanding of the history, culture and current events in the Middle East. Their names appear on page 16. As a sequel to this issue, our next issue of The Link examines how current Jewish educational material stereotypes the Arab people in much the same way that Jews themselves have been negatively stereotyped. The issue also looks at several news organizations within the American Jewish community which are seeking a basis for Arab-Jewish reconciliation.--John F. Mahoney, Executive Director, April 1980. Contents
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