Zayani, Mohamed (Professor of Critical Theory, Professor of Critical Theory, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar)

The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East - Oxford Studies in Digital Politics Zayani, Mohamed (Professor of Critical Theory, Professor of Critical Theory, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar)

The Middle East's digital turn has renewed hopes of socio-economic development and political change across the region, but it is also marked by stark contradictions and historical tensions. In this book, Mohamed Zayani and Joe F. Khalil contend that the region is caught in a digital double bind in which the same conditions that drive the state, market, and public immersion in the digital also inhibit change and perpetuate stasis. The Digital Double Bind offers a path-breaking analysis of how the Middle East negotiates its relation to the digital and provides a roadmap for a critical engagement with technology and change in the Global South.