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…
This article analyses the rising relevance of online news platforms in the Arab region, particularly those created after the social uprisings that commenced in late 2010 in Tunisia and spread across the southern Mediterranean basin. As the online environment does not contemplate borders, the article refers to the term 'Arab', as these initiatives aimed at reaching regional audiences. However, t…
In the Arab world, the emerging media phenomena within the digital space are facing a conceptual crisis due to the novelty of these phenomena and the dynamism of their formation, as well as the absence of a unified and reliable reference for idiomatic translation in the region. With the emergence of Web 2.0 and the media's trend towards the social-participatory aspect, the digital space became …
The aim of this study is to identify the characteristics of localism in Jordan daily press through analyzing the contents of four national daily newspapers. In so doing, the essay tried to find out how daily press is immersed in local affairs and the features of the press treatment of local affairs in order to find out the editorial policies adopted by press toward local affairs. This study sho…
Guided by framing theory, a quantitative content analysis was conducted on news programming from five transnational satellite news channels that broadcast to/from the Arab world—Al Jazeera, Al Jazeera English, Al Arabiya, Alhurra, and BBC Arabic. The project examined if differences exist between the networks, and between two dimensions of a network taxonomy—western and liberal commercialâ…
To understand the language of journalism in relation to the moments of why and how news is differently structured and patterned, English online stories tackling the Israeli--Palestinian conflict, issued by the BBC, CNN and Al-Jazeera, were critically analysed following Fowler and Fairclough's seminal texts. The results of the findings were discussed in interviews with the editors of the three i…
This article analyzes Saddam Hussein's image as portrayed by the three leading Spanish television prime-time newscasts during the Iraq war, from 24 February to 1 May 2003. The television channels involved are the public broadcaster, TVE-1, and two commercial stations, Antena 3 and Telecinco. On one hand, the characteristics attributed to Saddam Hussein as a leader and his relationship with the …