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…
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…
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…
Several laws regulate and influence reporting on crime in the United Arab Emirates, a country in which journalism functions within a Loyalist Press environment. These include elements in the 1980 press law and the recently updated penal code and cybercrimes laws. This legislation can secure the confidentiality of police investigations, protect privacy, and prevent the spread of false informatio…
Objective: "Awareness and understanding of the history of any society is essential for its progress. Searching through the local press of the past is considered as one of the pillars of the history of Iranian media. The media and the style of journalism, as well as the reason for using media among Kurdish people due to the lack of a central government, have been different from other countries a…
Proceeding from the importance of studying the contemporary Arabic language at its various levels and forms, and as a continuation of a previous research effort that dealt with the patterns of the nominal sentence in models from a Qatari newspaper, this research comes to present a statistical grammatical study of the patterns of verbal structures in the Qatari newspaper Al-Raya, as an example o…
This study aims to find out whether the types of journalism used in the written sports press meet the gratifications of the public by highlighting what is published by sports newspapers, where the descriptive approach was relied upon and as the research community is the students of the Institute of Science and Techniques of Physical and Sports Activities at The University of M’sila, a deliber…
The author criticizes Dearborn, Michigan Council President Susan Dabaja, who is running for 19th District Court judge, for her reaction to an editorial on the issue of her husband's federal conviction in a cigarette smuggling business. The author asserts that the publication has not only called out local officials who fall short of constituents's expectations, but also recognizes those who made…
Media studies remains the weakest link in political and social research dealing with the Arab region. The research that exists in this discipline remains limited in terms of research questions, restricted in some form to the question of freedom, and set in a defensive position lacking any originality. This study sheds light on the political press, focusing on the Moroccan Francophone journal, L…