The evaluation of the Arab electronic journalism experience can be through the reality in which it is living, and the conditions of use surrounding the Arab citizen on both the official and personal levels, in terms of the appropriate ways to accompany the development of means of communication and information technologies, as well as the legislative and organizational structure and the regulati…
This article examines US mainstream press coverage given to the aftermath of the Camp David negotiations in July 2000, offering a critical perspective on the events and reactions to the failed summit. In doing so the article is able to identify and highlight the detrimental effects of inaccurate reporting of the Israeli--Palestinian conflict in the US press. It demonstrates how this misrepres…
A telephone survey was conducted of Kuwaiti citizens' preferences for two types of national news programmes. Of the 490 Kuwaiti respondents, about 82% viewed the Al-Jazeera satellite channel (JSC), a liberal television model that provides news and political programming, while 98% watched the news and political programmes on Kuwaiti Television (KTV), a government television model. Two factor ana…
This article analyses the transition, complexity and dynamics of the modern Egyptian media landscape. It sheds light on some of the most important transformations, paradoxes and debates pertaining to this changing media landscape, and it explores some western theoretical perspectives and questions their validity as comparative perspectives for analysing modern Egyptian media. The article overvi…
The article reports on the Third Annual Doctoral Symposium on Arab & Muslim Media Research of the Centre for Arab and Muslim Media Research (CAMMRO) held at the University of London in London, England on April 25, 2009. It describes the speeches of Dr. Makram KhouryMachool of the University of Hertfordshire, the journalist M. Said Mahfouz, and researcher Sarah Jurkiewicz. Among the topics of th…
The article focuses on the benefits of medical journal subscriptions among doctors and medical practitioners on the improvement of their clinical practice. It says that medical journals offer a better approach in the assistance of the medical education among physicians rather than personal contact with colleagues, clinical trials, and continuing education courses. It adds that reading medical j…
The author considers the stereotypes surrounding Arab women journalists. She believes that Arab women were poorly served and manifested in Arab mass media. She mentions factors that helped Arab women journalists to enhance their career in the field of media professionalism. She looks at the catalysts for increasing women's participation.
This article uses content analysis to investigate how Al Jazeera English (AJE) and the BBC framed the Egyptian revolution that took place in Cairo at the beginning of 2011. It analyzes a sample of 250 articles to understand how AJE and the BBC implemented five frames: attribution of responsibility; conflict; human interest; economic; and morality. As a result, AJE and the BBC had the similar te…
Beginning with the so-called 'turban issue' in universities in the 1980s, public discussion about women in the public sphere in Turkey has arisen due to the veiled women's demand for a presence in public life. Since the banning of the veil in public life, Islamist columnists have been in a struggle against Kemalists to make the veil public, though there are different views on the limits of ve…
By examining source use and the emergence of frames, this study analyzes news coverage of the 2006 War in Lebanon and 2008–2009 War in Gaza in two local newspapers in Detroit, Michigan, USA: The Detroit News and the Detroit Free Press. Metropolitan Detroit is home to the largest concentration of Arab individuals outside of the Middle East, as well as a substantial Jewish population, making it…