A Bibliography of
Hamid Mowlana
(3rd Edition)
Edited by
Zahra Nazari
Ahmad Pishgahzadeh
KETABDAR Publications
ISBN 978-600-241-224-9
© Hamid Mowlana 2013-2019
First published 2013
Second edition 2016
Third edition 2019
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Nazari and Pishgahzadeh are editors of Media Bibliography and other works in the field of communication technologies.
Table of Contents
Foreword ………………………………………………………………………………………
A Short Biography ………………………………………………………………………..
Honors ………………………………………………………………………………………….
Books ……………………………………………………………………………………………
Book Chapters ………………………………………………………………………………
Journal Articles ……………………………………………………………………………..
Conference Papers ………………………………………………………………………..
Title Index …………………………………………………………………………………….
Subject Index ………………………………………………………………………………..
Foreword
This book is an annotated bibliography of Hamid Mowlana, a renowned scholar of international relations and a pioneer in the field of international communication studies. His academic career extends over half a century. He is a Professor Emeritus at the School of International Service, American University, Washington D.C., and has been a visiting faculty member in a number of universities around the world. He has served as president of International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and has received the Distinguished Senior Scholar Award of the International Studies Association (ISA).
The range of Professor Mowlana's scholarship is vast and his publications are numerous and diverse, relating to a number of disciplines including economics, political science, sociology, communication, and philosophy. This book includes his writings in both English and Persian. For a better familiarity with his works, the reader needs to refer to both the English and Persian sections each delineated separately. Some of his works have been translated into other languages such as French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Polish, Finish, Japanese, Korean, Turkish, Arabic, and Urdu. This bibliography contains only works written and published in English and Persian.
When the book is held correctly the English title is on the outside left cover and the Persian title is on the outside right corner. The bibliography follows the conventions of English (left to right) and Persian (right to left) and do not contain translation of works in the other languages.
The Persian section is almost a comprehensive collection of Professor Mowlana's writings in Persian including books, book chapters, journal articles, and newspaper and magazine articles. The English section contains all his books, book chapters, and journal articles in English as well as a sample of his extensive contributions to English language periodicals and some of his conference papers. We are happy to be able to report that this edition includes a complete index of both Persian and English language publications.
In sum, the total number of entries in both English and Persian languages is 1420, This includes books, book chapters, journal articles and essays and other contributions.
Editors
Zahra Nazari
Ahmad Pishgahzadeh
January 2019
Hamid Mowlana
A Short Biography
Hamid Mowlana is Professor Emeritus of International Relations at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C. (USA). He is the founder of the Intercultural and International Communication Program at American University and served as its director, for 37 years, from 1968 to 2005. The program is the oldest and the first of its kind in the United States. Since its inception it has pioneered professional curricula in international and intercultural communication and remains a leader in the field. In 1989, the program, during its 20th anniversary celebration, was designated a Center of Excellence by American University. The School of International Service is the largest and one of the top-ten schools of international affairs in the United States.
Professor Mowlana came to American University in 1968, a year of transformation across the globe. In America, the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, riots in major cities, and the tumultuous Democratic National Convention in Chicago made clear that the nation’s social and political fabric was changing. As a young scholar, Professor Mowlana witnessed these events and ones in Europe and he launched the International Communication Program.
In the last half of the twentieth century no area of human endeavor had experienced more change than communication and information technology. The profound transformation and the broad recognition of its effects on international business and politics created a need for scholarship, teaching, and training in international communication and the globalization of economic and political issue areas. From 1965 to 1968, prior to his appointment at American University, Professor Mowlana was on the faculties of the School of Communication and the College of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, working to develop a curriculum of international studies. He was also a Guest Scholar at the University of Chicago in 1966.
Professor Mowlana was born in Iran in 1937 and came to the United States in 1958 under an international educational exchange program. After completing his undergraduate studies in economics, he received the M.S. (Master of Science) in journalism in 1960 and the Ph.D. in communication and political science in 1963 from Northwestern University.
Professor Mowlana has had a distinguished academic career. He has served as visiting professor and guest scholar in a number of universities in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, including Cambridge University in England; Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain; University of Tampere Finland; Catholic University of Buenos Aires, Argentina; Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia; University of Montreal and the University of Quebec, Canada; University of Tokyo and Keio University, Tokyo, Japan; University of Lagos, Nigeria; Imam Sadiq University, Iran; and University of Cairo and Al-Azhar University, Cairo, Egypt.
Professor Mowlana’s academic activities, teaching, and research cover a period of more than half a century. He has written extensively on international communication, social and cultural aspects of international relations, and worldwide socio-economic development. He has produced a large body of work—a diverse and critical corpus that ranges from theoretical to sectoral/policy analyses. He has written both in English and Persian (Farsi) languages and many of his books and articles have been translated into other languages including, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish, Finish, Japanese, Chinese, Malay, Urdu, Bengali, Korean, Arabic, and Turkish. He has undertaken research projects for a number of international organizations including UNESCO in Paris and has appeared before the congressional committees on a number of international issues.
Over the last several decades Professor Mowlana has contributed articles to national and international media on a variety of international issues. In 1963, at the age of 26 and after receiving his PhD degree from Northwestern University, he served for a short period as editor in chief of the Kayhan Group of Newspapers — a leading publishing firm in Iran. And for 20 years, from 1992 to 2012, he wrote a regular weekly column for Kayhan daily on a number of economic, political, and cultural issues. In 1978-79 during the Islamic Revelation in Iran, Professor Mowlana wrote for the Miami Herald and other international media.
Professor Mowlana has served on the editorial board of numerous scholarly journals, including Journal of International Communication; Media, Cultural, & Society; Critical Studies in Mass Communication; Telematics and informatics; Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly; and Journal of Communication. He has also been a member of the American Association of University Professors, American Political Science Association, Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, International Communication Association, International Political Science Association, and International Society for Political Psychology. He has received scholarship, followership, and educational and research grants from the United States, England, France, Germany, and Japan. He has undertaken research projects for UNESCO and other international organization.
Professor Mowlana was president of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR/AIERI/AIICS) from 1994 to 1998 and is now honorary president for life of this association. He has won numerous national and international awards for outstanding scholarship, research, and other professional contributions. He is the recipient of the International Studies Association (ISA)’s “Distinguished Senior Scholar Award” at its 43rd Annual Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana in March 2002. In addition, Professor Mowlana received the 1993 American University Faculty Award for Outstanding Scholarship, Research and other Professional Contributions. He has also received a number of other awards, including the International Communication Association (ICA)’s award for outstanding research in 1977; American University’s School of International Service Award for Outstanding Contribution to Academic Development in 1980 and 1988; for Thirty Years of Distinguished Leadership and Scholarship in 1998; and the Scholar/Teacher of the Year Award in 2000. Professor Mowlana has won the life achievement award of the Iranian academies of arts and sciences –“Chehrehaye Mandegar”, The Eternal Ones.
Professor Hamid Mowlana has been listed in the following:
· Who Is Who in American
· Who Is Who in the World
· American Men and Women of Sciences
· Who Is Who in America: East and Northeast
· Who Is Who American Education
· Dictionary of International Biography
· Dictionary of International Scholar
· Community Leaders in America
Honors
In April 2007 Professor Mowlana was honored as Professor Emeritus of International Relations
Statement of American University
Honoring Professor Mowlana
Note from Professor Johan Galtung
It gives me great pleasure to congratulate Hamid Mowlana on the 50th anniversary (1968-2018) of the founding of the international and intercultural studies program, School of International Service, American University. I associate the program above all with the word “communication”. How do, could, might, should nations and cultures communicate with each other so that sender and receiver share the same message? There is so much aggressive and defensive communication going on; how could that be improved?
The problem is still with us. But it has at least been formulated, and increasingly seen as a major problem. Thanks to one person and the institution he founded. Congratulations!
Professor Johan Galtung
Founder of TRANSCEND; A Peace Development Environment Network
International Studies Association (ISA)
Honoring Professor Hamid Mowlana
At the International Studies Association (ISA) annual conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana, in March of 2002, Professor Hamid Mowlana was honored and received the Associations Distinguished Senior Scholar Award for his research, teaching, and professional academic contributions to the field. A special panel was devoted to his research and publications at the conference. Following are some of the comments made regarding Professor Mowlana’s works.
Professor George Gerbner
Dean and Professor Emeritus
The Annenberg School of Communications
University of Pennsylvania
It is a pleasure to say a few words about my good friend, Hamid Mowlana, and his contribution to international relations and communication. It is now almost four decades that we have known each other, worked together, and have shared many platforms.
Over the years, we have also collaborated on a number of projects, including two edited books, The Triumph of the Image: The Media's War in the Persian Gulf- A Global Perspective and Invisible Crises: What Conglomerate Control of Media Means for America and the World in which the late Herbert I. Schiller was a collaborator. In addition, Mowlana, Kaarle Nordenstreng and I edited the volume Global Media Debate: Its Rise, Fall and Renewal. Mowlana also contributed to a number of works I edited including The International Encyclopedia of Communication, Mass Media Policies in Changing Cultures, and World Communication: A Handbook, not to mention a number of outstanding articles he did for the Journal of Communication when it was edited at the Annenberg School of Communication under my direction. I mention these few titles only to illustrate his vast contributions to international communication and his extraordinary energy in generating many new and critical ideas on the frontier of knowledge.
Mowlana has been a leading pioneer in the field of communication and an architect of this discipline. His works are required readings in every program in this field around the world and a look at this list of his publications is a good starting point to gain an idea of how far his thinking has ranged beyond the academic enterprise and into public policy. In the prevailing globalization discourse, the basic realities of the power structure are fairly obscure, and he has been able to analyze and crystallize this power structure with his documentation and contributions.
In the beginning of the turbulent decade of the 1960’s, Mowlana was one of the youngest scholars who entered the disciplines of communications and international relations. International communication, then, was a fragmented area of study. He transferred the Field of international communication from its nomadic life to a sedentary life. In many ways, Mowlana changed the landscape of international communication by pulling out and integrating a variety of approaches.
Mowlana was very involved in the 1970’s with the discussion and debate surrounding the New World Information and Communication Order. He was one of the few to testify at the U.S. Congress in favor of the united Third World countries. Indeed, Mowlana can be considered a voice for the marginalized and underrepresented. Due to his unique qualities as Iranian-born and cultured, yet with over forty years of educational training and teaching in the United States, Mowlana is truly intercultural in his perspective, taking critical looks at many different international issues. He has become established as a well-known figure in Islamic studies and continues to write prolifically in academic journals and for the public media. Mowlana during the 1980's was known for his uncompromising position during the Cold War, a time when many mainstream intellectuals were taking sides. He is an independent thinker and has withstood the test of time and trendy intellectual movements.
In his publications, the range of discourse and engagement in interdisciplinary themes and topics is truly amazing. Mowlana’s depth of knowledge in history, literature, communication studies, and international relations is unparalleled. His books were chosen as “Book of the Year” twice, first for the 1986 edition of his book, Global Information and World Communication, and secondly for his 1990 book, The Passing of Modernity. These books are frequently cited and referenced, most recently in the Handbook on International and Intercultural Communication(2002). His ideas continue to shape the direction of the field of international communication and will no doubt continue to do so in the future.
Cutting-edge issues that now resound in a rapidly international environment turn on questions that he raised in his writings and lectures many years ago. He was the only scholar in the United States who predicted the Islamic Revolution years in advance, pointedly and accurately. He described the role of traditional communication such as the mosque, bazaar, and doreh in political and social mobilization in Islamic societies before it became the focus of sociological analysis. His paper, at the World Congress of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) which was held in Leipzig, Germany, in 1974, was a landmark in showing the direction of the revolution. Five years later, on the eve of the Islamic revolution, he wrote his much quoted study on “Technology Versus Tradition: Communication in the Iranian Revolution”, for the Journal of Communication (Summer, 1979). Since then, he has ` been the single-most important outspoken theoretician of the Islamic Revolution. For the last few decades, he has certainly been one of the major thinkers in the Islamic world.
For over three decades, he was at the helm of leadership of the most prestigious society in the field of communication, the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and became the first non-Western to be elected to the presidency of the Association in 1992. His reform completely changed the administrative structure of IAMCR and his intellectual leadership opened a new horizon for the coming generation of the membership. Earlier, in 1991, as vice-president of the Association, he had organized and inaugurated IAMCR’s first off-year and regional conference in Istanbul, Turkey, which dealt with the role of the media in the Persian Gulf War. These special conferences have now become a regular feature of the Association.
When Mowlana founded the International Communication program at American University in 1968, he was only 31 years old. Since then, that is for the last 34 years, his academic colleagues have elected him to the directorship of the program, a very rare experience indeed. In 1989, when the program celebrated its 20 anniversary at American University, it was selected as a “Center of Excellence” and I was invited to serve on its advisory board. The International Communication Program at American University is now the oldest of its kind in the world, offering the BA, MA, and PhD degrees. The fact that the International Studies Association (ISA), the leading society of the scholars in the many disciplines of international relations, is honoring Mowlana at its annual conference is indicative of and testimony to his wide ranging scholarly and professional contribution. I congratulate him and wish him the best.
On a personal note, Mowlana’s dedication to interpersonal communication in an increasingly technological and impersonal world is probably his most memorable trait. A true educator, Mowlana believes in the power of the exchange of ideas and intercultural dialogue, and it is for this that I commend him.
Professor Gertrude J. Robinson
Professor of Communication Studies
McGill University, Montreal (Canada)
Hamid Mowlana is one of the outstanding North American scholars who has made the analysis of international communication issues his lifetime work. In the seventies his focus was on the role of communication in political change and the way in which media systems in different countries might be systematically compared. He developed one of the first inclusive paradigms for such comparisons. In the eighties, he became interested in international news flows and their biases against third world news. His Global Information and World Communication (1986) became a ground-breaking book providing a critical overview of the human and technological dimensions of global information flow. It provides a critical examination of the major theories, concepts and propositions and helps to clarify the reasons for the global information imbalances.
In the nineties, Mowlana’s preoccupations become culture and values and issues of social justice in a world where global communication flows between nation-states have increased in speed, but not in substance and quality. Today, one of the most important. tasks will be to balance the communication rights of nations with those of its citizens. Unfortunately, increased global information exchanges do not automatically lead to international understanding, because the value frameworks in which they occur differ drastically in the developing and the developed worlds. As Mowlana points out “knowledge by reporting” has increased exponentially through new distribution technologies like satellites and internet, yet by themselves they do not add to “knowledge by encounter” which depends on a system of mutually recognized sign systems.
To develop communication across cultural divides requires such values as equity, trust, and a willingness to cooperate; humanistic values which are in short supply. Hamid Mowlana as a scholar and a person has not only explored, but lived these values by using his formidable knowledge of Iranian society to explicate political developments in the Middle East. As a person he has built bridges between Western and Islamic philosophical traditions and demonstrated that respectful dialogue is the key to inter- personal and global understanding.
Professor Naren Chitty
Director, Macquarie University Centre for International Communication (Australia)
Editor, Journal of International Communication
More than any other scholar, Professor Hamid Mowlana has been responsible for the development of the field of International Communication. It is fitting that he has tried to foreground communication rather than conflict in relations between nations. While he has had no illusions about the realist logic that prevails in geopolitics, he has preferred to work around the pools and eddies where the great relentless ocean washes against the unyielding shore-encouraging domains of communication rather than conflict, community rather then confrontation.
Professor Mowlana’s legacy is as resplendent as a SuItan’s treasure. His scholarship has ranged from the intercultural to the geopolitical, addressing, and even defining, all of the major issues of International Communication since the 1960’s. He is the founder of a magnificent academic edifice, the Division of International Communication of SIS at American University. Professor Mowlana’s program and his graduate students, including myself, have been inspired to take his message to other climes.
He has also helped shape the Filed of Media and Communication through his twenty-year long leadership role in the International Association for Media and Communication Research. Under his presidency, in the mid-nineties, IAMCR went through a period of self-reflection and democratic decentralization. He set up the International Communication section at IAMCR and led it for many years till two of his graduate students took over for him. Professor Mowlana has also been a guiding force for the Journal of International Communication, edited by me.
In his academic life Professor Mowlana has exhibited the characteristics of the true Brahman.
Professor Christine B.N. Chin
International Communication Program
School of International Service
American University
Hamid Mowlana already had produced a large body of work, a diverse and critical corpus-ranging from sectoral policy analyses and weekly newsprint column contributions to the relationship between communication and conflict, religion, banking, development, tourism, and even Hollywood and media conglomerates.
What binds these disparate works is not communication as understood from conventional mainstream mass communication perspectives or dominant operative paradigms that define it as a simple, neutral process of transportation and transmission of information. This denies the existence of alternative conceptualizations and practices that reflect and/or address the human condition as experienced in different regions of the world.
What binds Professor Mowlana’s work is the belief that theory and practice of international communication emerges from and is based on the human imperative in building and sustaining community. When he writes of cultural ecology, legitimacy, rights, etc. he is referring to institutions, processes, and worldviews that are shaped by communities as well as shaping communities.
If information technology is to be a central part of community building today, then according to Mowlana, we should insist on debating its perceived value and ownership in pursuit of specific visions of community on national and international arenas.
It should be said that communities are never free of strife, of differences and of conflicts. But according to Mowlana, what makes them real and potential havens against global capitalism that encloses physical, social, and cyberspace is an insistence to uphold the mutually independent triad of thought-dialogue-community. Whether in his Global information and World Communication or The Passing of Modernity, Hamid Mowlana keeps reminding us of the need to insist on this triadic relationship.
For the field of international communication, Mowlana's leadership and contributions continue to help strengthen not just a sharply critical stance, but bolster a movement toward academic trans disciplinary. His “living legacy” challenges us to address two issues. First, to re-read the foundations of Western philosophy that undergird international communication. In his words, “to excavate the cracks of our archives” and “to open Western civilization to its forgotten past” so that we may trace the cultural borrowings that shape interactions and worldviews that make possible a “dialogue of civilizations” as opposed to “clashes of civilizations” Secondly, to struggle to develop ways of knowing that are holistic and trans disciplinary. When taken together, these two issues allow international communication to make invaluable contributions to knowledge creation well beyond the present boundaries to which we were relatively restricted in the twentieth century.
Professor Basyouni Hamada
Faculty of Mass Communication,
Cairo University, Egypt & Department of Mass Communication,
United Arab Emirates University
Secretary General, Global Communication Research Association
The pioneering International Communication Professor Hamid Mowlana has been honored by the International Studies Association annual conference which has been held in New Orleans in 2002. The honor is a recognition of his achievements in the fields of International Relations and International Communication. This evidence as well as the numerous honors owned by Professor Mowlana testifies to the outstanding quality of his books and articles which represent milestones in International Relations and International Communication.
His several books and articles in both scholarly and popular journals made him a key figure both in international communication research and in the public debate over the role of the global media and communication technologies in modern society. In his influential book Global Communication in Transition, the End of Diversity Mowlana argued that “we should not be deceived by an illusion of the diversity of the subject matter and the vastness of the literature. We need to concentrate on promoting the diversity of cultural views and our ability to make the field more interesting and challenging by exploring new avenues and voices of knowledge”.
Most of Professor Mowlana’s ideas, especially on the sovereignty of the nation state and the role of communication technologies in development, traveled to the Arab world where many Arab communication researchers and scholars have been affected by his critical thinking and the structural analysis of the world communication system. Professor Hamid Mowlana adopts the notion of the cultural independence of the Islamic countries as a prerequisite condition for genuine political freedom. I think Mowlana’s belief that Islam is not only a religion in the traditional Western sense, but also a state, a social order and a system of modern life would be a strategic solution for the many misunderstandings and tensions between the West and Muslim world if it is clearly communicated and understood among Western peoples.
Professor Hamid Mowlana, the founding director of the International Communication Program at the School of International Service, American University, Washington, D.C., has dedicated himself not only to the development of the theoretical and methodological foundations of International Communication, but also the issues of global justice, nation-state sovereignty, the New World Information Order, and the relationship between communication technologies and development. In all of his distinguished books and articles, Professor Mowlana’s goal is to give the reader not only the details, but also the provide the whole picture so the reader understands how to relate the international conflicts and tensions to the imbalances in the world communication and information system. It is the unique ability of Professor Hamid Mowlana to connect theories to real-world cues. During his presidency of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Professor Hamid Mowlana played a crucial role in reinforcing and refreshing the mission and vision of the association. He actually redirects the academic and the political role of the association by promoting the standards of democratic leadership, academic orientation, human relationship and positive image elements.
Finally, it is my belief that Professor Mowlana’s ideas on cultural diversity rather than the global culture will survive forever. Though the linking of our world will be nearly completed, peoples of different cultures struggle to live in diversity. I’m also very impressed with his notion of preserving the independence of the developing countries if we are to live in a just world.
Professor Herbert I Schiller
University of California at San Diego
Hamid Mowlana for decades has been one of the foremost trackers and analyzers of global communications — their volume, character, and impact. No one is more qualified to explain these increasingly important and central issues to a wide public.