Abstract
Recently in the Arab world, several institutional and legal changes have occurred, including, in May 2005, Kuwaiti women gaining the chance to vote and hold political office in the next parliamentary elections. Moreover, continued intellectual discourse regarding Middle East liberalization and democratization has taken place. Such developments can be attributed to internal and external factors, some of which are related to new media technologies such as, satellite television, cellular phones, and the Internet/blogging.
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al-Roomi, S. (2007). Women, Blogs, and Political Power in Kuwait. In: Seib, P. (eds) New Media and the New Middle East. Palgrave Macmillan Series in International Political Communication. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230605602_8
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