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…
The study aims to identify the motives of journalists' reluctance to practice investigative journalism. The researcher relies on the method of codified interview and questionnaire in order to identify the main motives that prevent journalists from practicing investigative journalism and to analyse the motives in depth after collecting sufficient information. The study uses the descriptive resea…
Often, social perspectives of the Arab Revolution give a lot of credit to Facebook as the primary catalyst for political mobilization and citizen journalism. Although Facebook as a platform can be acclaimed for helping to shape this situation, this research argues that the role of Facebook is often exaggerated. In the context of this work, the ‘Arab Revolution’ refers to the period in which…
This study aimed to address the phenomenon of citizen journalism that has created a place for itself in the world of communication at the present time, and through the method of the questionnaire, the study examined the trends of a sample of media professors and Sudanese academics in the United Arab Emirates about the role of citizen journalist in Sudan in the Sudanese movement in December 2019…