Jewish involvement in Arabic press and journalism accompanied the process of modernization of Jewish communities in the Middle East and North Africa from the second half of the nineteenth century. There was a connection between the nature of the Jews' involvement in the canonical Arab culture and the development of the Arabic-Jewish press and journalism: wherever Jews tried to integrate sociall…
In the context of attention to repercussions of the outbreak of the Corona pandemic, it is worth evaluating efforts of many sectors,including the press, in dealing with the pandemic. So, this research aimed at identifying evaluation of the Egyptian press and media experts, including Academicians and Professionals, of performance of the Egyptian press in dealing with Covid 19 pandemic in terms o…
The research aims at studying the most important issues raised in the caricature and published in Jordanian dailies. The contents, attitudes, values, forms and sources of the caricature will be outlined. The study employs a content analysis and a comparative methods of research. The study concluded the following findings: The political issues in the caricature come first and constitute (48.5%) …
This working paper focuses on the news-based blogs, e.g. the blogs adopting an approach similar to that of the traditional media. The blogosphere is deemed to be, as expressed in many discourses, a redeeming outlet for the hegemony of the traditional media. The former often tends to ignore the citizen's really needed contents. Furthermore, it often misleads the citizens through the practicing o…
Many experts expected that the revolution of technology and emergence of modern communication methods, such as radio, T.V, satellites and internet, may reduce the popularity of printed press, and may even cause its extinction. Nevertheless; the printed press was able to benefit from the new technology to enhance itself and survive. This study aims to investigate the relationship between printed…
Nascent Jordanian television stations want to distinguish themselves from state-owned Jordan TV and pan-Arab satellite channels by announcing their intention to broadcast mostly 'local' items of interest. In Lebanon, several terrestrial stations concentrate heavily on news items from certain Lebanese regions in order to cater to diverse sectarian audiences. Despite some differences, these two e…
Media scholarship has mostly focused on the regional and global dimension of the 'satellite revolution' in Arab news, insisting on concepts such as the 'pan-Arab public sphere' and 'media panarabism.' Taking Egypt as a case study, this article moves from a 'purely' pan-Arab perspective to a broader approach that examines the complex relationship between pan-Arab satellite news media and nationa…
Launched in 1938 as the BBC's first foreign language radio service, 80 years later, in 2008, the BBC Arabic Service also became the first tri-media platform at the World Service offering news and current affairs not only on radio and on online, but also via a fully fledged TV Channel in Arabic. This article traces the intervening transformations by exploring two critical moments in detail and e…
This paper reveals the ways in which media autocracy operates on political, judicial, economic and discursive levels in post-2007 Turkish media. Newsmakers in Turkey currently experience five different systemic kinds of neoliberal government pressures to keep their voice down: conglomerate pressure, judicial suppression, online banishment, surveillance defamation and accreditation discriminatio…