
This working paper focuses on the news-based blogs, e.g. the blogs adopting an approach similar to that of the traditional media. The blogosphere is deemed to be, as expressed in many discourses, a redeeming outlet for the hegemony of the traditional media. The former often tends to ignore the citizen's really needed contents. Furthermore, it often misleads the citizens through the practicing o…

Objective: "Awareness and understanding of the history of any society is essential for its progress. Searching through the local press of the past is considered as one of the pillars of the history of Iranian media. The media and the style of journalism, as well as the reason for using media among Kurdish people due to the lack of a central government, have been different from other countries a…

Media studies remains the weakest link in political and social research dealing with the Arab region. The research that exists in this discipline remains limited in terms of research questions, restricted in some form to the question of freedom, and set in a defensive position lacking any originality. This study sheds light on the political press, focusing on the Moroccan Francophone journal, L…

In recent years, Arab news industries have been confronted with an unparalleled increase in demand for journalistic offers. In parallel, Internet penetration throughout the Arab world has increased significantly, leading to a shift of consumption away from traditional channels towards the digital realm. This article addresses the impact of those recent developments on a shared transnational com…

The press is linked to law from several quarters. From one side linked to the constitutional law. As part of the Iraqi constitution in public freedoms and the freedom of the media, one of these freedoms and related to the criminal law that faces the abuses of some journalists in the course of practicing their profession. The civil law determines the civil responsibility of the journalist in the…

Information about a round table organized by the International Association of Middle Eastern Studies at the "2010 World Congress of Middle East Studies" held in Barcelona, Spain is presented. The aim of the round table was to bring to the attention of the global community of Middle East Studies academics and policy makers a new form of attack on critical thought and journalism. The round table …

In the late eighth decade of the last century, Algeria witnessed an important political event that resulted from the Constitution of February 23, 1989, through which the first foundations for political pluralism were laid, according to which media pluralism was produced, and this was manifested in the written press sector, which witnessed an unprecedented qualitative and quantitative develo…

This article explores the uses of sources in the news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Kuwait between 1 January and 31 December 2020. Our study analyses the sources and actors that were presented in 673 news stories on COVID-19 that were published in nine outlets, comparing media platforms and across time as the pandemic evolved. Our results show that political sources dominated these stori…

It is possible to consider the relationship between official authorities and journalism in Iraq during the royal reign one of the most problematic issues, where these authorities endeavored to obstruct the work of journalism and restrict its freedom for the sake of imposing de facto. But it does not come to their minds that preventing journalism and muffling its freedom is like changing the rea…

After many decades of heavily relying on local newspapers and controlled radio and TV, many Kuwaitis switched to the Internet to obtain information, news and political analysis. The political dispute of power after the death of Kuwaiti Emir Sheik Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah on 15 January 2006, followed by parliament's demands to change the electoral constituencies voting system of the National Asse…