This study attempts to explore the relationship between the role of the traditional press, the output of social media as it emerged during the 25 January 2011 revolution, the 30 June 2011 protests and beyond; and also to determine if the mainstreaming of social media changed journalism practices in Egypt. The findings of this study indicate that there has been a significantly increased flow of …
This study researches journalists' attitudes towards journalism regulations, mainly publication laws. The study focuses on the Sultanate of Oman as one case study from the Arab world. To the best of the researchers' knowledge, no local work on this topic has previously been undertaken. However, there do exist some studies that deal with textual and critical analyses of the legalizing press laws…
Few studies on female TV journalists in the Middle East have been conducted. Neither have Bourdieu's theoretical concepts been used to analyse women journalists' experiences of their professional practice and their strategies for navigating a male-dominated media world in the Middle East. For this unique study, ten Kurdish women journalists that work for six different TV stations in Iraqi Kurdi…
The shifting political landscape in the Middle East and North Africa have riveted the world's attention and drawn media scholars' scrutiny to the 'Arab Internet' at large. Despite this attention, research on the 'Arab Internet' has not received its due, and it is even more limited when it comes to exploring online news and journalism. Scholarly works and mainstream media commentary on the subje…
Background: mental health problems are rising in number and severity between journalists & media field workers. Keeping mental well-being of media field workers is a must that is so hard to be achieved by most societies. Objective: This research aims to study the prevalence of stress &associated psychological disorders (depression- anxiety) and their association with some factors. Patients and …
Background: Atrophic rhinitis is a chronic debilitating nasal disease which may be primary, or secondary to various underlying etiologies. Several methods of treatment have been previously adopted with minimal success rate. In order to achieve effective and long-standing method of treatment for this challenging pathology, this method should work mainly on reversal of the pathologic changes in…
Before and after the January 25 uprisings in Egypt, public and scholarly attention moved from the early political bloggers to today's citizen journalists who use not only blogs but any available means to disseminate alternative information. The use of new 'information and communication technologies' (icts) is no longer an asset for the secular-civil opposition only. Since 2011, various groups, …
Science journalism in Egypt reffects the way science is taught, perceived and practiced in the country. Online publications cover science and technology in different ways. Yet, all of them rely on translators as most of the science stories are sourced from foreign outlets. This paper looks at how science is covered in the top publications online and argues that in the digital age new skills a…