The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East

This book reconsiders the question of technology, development, and social change in the digital era, focusing on the Middle East.

It moves beyond familiar accounts of the network society to provide a nuanced exploration of the region's digital turn.

The authors draw on extensive field research and case studies to illuminate the promises of change and the tensions that foster stasis, highlighting a 'digital double bind' that encapsulates the region's predicament within the digital paradigm.