This article engages al-Kawakibi’s Taba’i‘ al-istibdad (The Characteristics of Oppression) as an instance of how Nahda writing dealt with the anxieties and ambivalence inherent in Ottoman Arab modernity. The Aleppine author was a political philosopher who universalized the Arab Muslim as a political subject. The article examines how al-Kawakibi defined “oppression” and “tyranny” a…
A decade after the end of Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon, I spotlight the hitherto under-researched literary portrayals of the conflict. Following an overview of the immediate and (then-) innovative media tools and techniques used to capture its momentum--blogging, video-making, and online comics--and of Arabic-, French-, and English-language literary writings referring to the war, I focus on how…
The author highlights the main features of the Western tradition of media education that has influenced the development of media and education relationships in the Russian culture of the early XXIst century. Today, we have the three key directions in theoretical understanding and practical implementation. The first is media education for professional work in journalism and mass media. The secon…
In recent years there has been a growing global debate on fake news, technically as "disinformation" and in recent months the expression "infodemic" coined by the WHO due to the COVID-19 pandemic. What these two terms have in common - and the object of this study - is the relationship they have with freedom of expression and the right to information, these fundamental and corollary rights o…
The Emarati Constitution guaranteed of freedom of speech whether through speech written or any other expressions allowed by law. Hence, the UAE law on Publication NO. 15 of the year 1980 aimed at organizing Journalism in UAE. However, this Law did not take into consideration the wrongdoing in Journalism and the publication of damages thereto, especially since the damage, caused by Journalism, r…
Research derives its importance، since the value of man is valued by his ethics، his actions، not his body and address ،nor his knowledge and money. The moral framework of the profession in general is a set of rules and ethical and ethical ethics that must accompany the professional man in his profession towards his work and toward society as a whole and towards himself and himself. And the…
This study aims to identify the features of the Electronic Journalism and its reflections on the Jordanian Press from the viewpoint of a sample of the media and journalists. It also aims to find differences in the averages of their responses on that according to some demographic and functional variables. The study relied on a descriptive analytical approach where the sub-sample survey consisted…