{"id":34613,"date":"2024-10-02T15:15:26","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/?post_type=product&#038;p=34613"},"modified":"2024-10-02T15:15:26","modified_gmt":"2024-10-02T13:15:26","slug":"tmr-44-gatekeepers","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/product\/tmr-44-gatekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"TMR 44 \u2022 GATEKEEPERS"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"page\" title=\"Page 2\">\n<div class=\"layoutArea\">\n<div class=\"column\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-34618 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-641x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-641x1024.jpg 641w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-188x300.jpg 188w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-768x1228.jpg 768w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-961x1536.jpg 961w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER-600x959.jpg 600w, https:\/\/themarkaz.org\/oldsite\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/TMR44-GATEKEEPER.jpg 1201w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 641px) 100vw, 641px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why GATEKEEPERS? &#8211; TMR<\/p>\n<p>Featured Artists: &#8220;Barred From Home&#8221; &#8211; Malu Halasa<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Hafez Ragab: Upsetting the Guards of Cairo &#8211; Maha Al Aswad<\/p>\n<p>Meta\u2019s Community Standards as a Tool of Digital\/Settler-Colonialism &#8211; Omar Zahzah<\/p>\n<p>Forget Social Media\u2014Government is the Real Threat to Freedom &#8211; Stephen Rohde<\/p>\n<p>Who Decides What Makes for Authentic Middle East Fiction? &#8211; Nektaria Anastasiadou<\/p>\n<p>Egypt\u2019s Gatekeeper\u2014President or Despot? &#8211;\u00a0Elias Feroz<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon&#8217;s Holy Gatekeepers of Free Speech &#8211; Joumana Haddad<\/p>\n<p>My Life Among the Gatekeepers &#8211; Ammiel Alcalay<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Made to Measure&#8221;\u2014fiction from Farah Ahamed<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dear Sniper&#8221; \u2014a short story by Ali Ramthan Hussein<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TMR Issue 44 \u2013 11 articles \u2013\u00a0 123 pages<\/p>\n<p>Gatekeepers are those who stand at the gates of publishing, the mainstream media, or at the entrance to government institutions; they are the people who control, mediatize and often oppose or deny the work or words of others. In this issue, we ask who in fact controls the flow of information \u2014 what news, which facts, whose ideas get seen and discussed? Who gets published, who gets reviewed? Who are today\u2019s gatekeepers? With new work by Ammiel Alcalay, Maha Al Aswad, Nektaria Anastasiadou, Elias Feroz, Joumana Haddad, Stephen Rohde and Omar Zahzah, with fiction by Farah Ahamed &amp; Ali Ramthan Hussein.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":34617,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[3209],"product_tag":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34613","1":"product","2":"type-product","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"product_cat-tmr-issues","7":"entry","9":"first","10":"instock","11":"downloadable","12":"virtual","13":"purchasable","14":"product-type-simple"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.8 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>TMR 44 \u2022 GATEKEEPERS - The Markaz Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gatekeepers are those who stand at the gates of publishing, the mainstream media, or at the entrance to government institutions; they are the people who control, mediatize and often oppose or deny the work or words of others. 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