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This research aims to reveal the ideology of Al-Jazeera media and the social conditions that influence it through reporting on Muhammad bin Salman and the Saudi Vision 2030 on the Al-Jazeera Arabic news site. This research uses a qualitative descriptive method. The data in this research were analyzed using the Fairclough discourse analysis model. At the level of text analysis, the results of the study show that Al-Jazeera uses sharp and firm diction, namely by using phrases meaning “taukid” (strengthening), “laa” and “lam nafiyah” particles, sentences meaning “tasybih” (similarity) which have bad connotations, bad idioms, metaphorical expressions to show evil, causality to explain a situation, and the use of negative diction. At the level of discursive practice, Al-Jazeera creates news according to its target audience in the Middle East and Africa. At the sociocultural level, Al-Jazeera has an ideology, namely, representing the unrest of Middle Eastern society with the slogan, “The opinion and the other opinion.” Besides that, socio-political conditions in the Middle East and diplomatic relations between Saudi Arabia and Qatar influence Al-Jazeera in producing discourse about Saudi Arabia, especially Saudi Vision 2030.

The coverage of female athletes in sports media has been claimed to exhibit prejudice in favor of male athletes. Therefore, they promote the dominance of traditional masculine hegemony. Accordingly, the present study examines Al-Jazeera's coverage of Arab female athletes participating in the Rio Olympics. The study, therefore, aims to identify Al-Jazeera's strategies for covering Arab female athletes in selected online stories and their ideological perspectives in terms of "Self" or public and "Other" or private dichotomy. Furthermore, it aims to examine the feminist critical discourse analysis perspective in the gendered social practices of the Eastern world. This study analyses two Al-Jazeera news stories using feminist critical discourse analysis. Feminist critical discourse analysis challenges social practices related to gender stereotypes. Occasionally, gender inequalities are manifested explicitly as well as implicitly. Patriarchy persists in many social institutions and among women (and men) globally. The researchers implement Lazar's (2018) Feminist Critical Discourse Analysis. Thus, sports news ideological methods are analyzed using positive "in-group" and negative "out-group" dichotomy. The current research findings indicate that the patriarchal society has been transformed with respect to women's empowerment. Arab female athletes take place in public life as their male counterparts. However, the analyzed data demonstrated Arab women's gender resistance to the stereotypical gender norms. However, the current research is essential for revealing the progress of gender-based hierarchal social norms. Deconstructing conventional unequal gender roles is a key component of this research project's contribution to developing and promoting gender equality in Arabic culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The international network has a very important role in strengthening the solidarity and unity of the masses, in spreading information to the community by creating virtual communities. Al-Jazeera as one of the most reputable media outlets in the international arena and have considerable influence in society. They have a vital role in raising awareness to the people in case of religion, culture and issues in the world. In addition, more rapid and accessible information in the global media has been supported by information among countries that have changed the politics of the authorities. mass media in international relations that grow so fast recently by knowing that the media and politics are related each others with sharing the mutual benefit to each other. The author discusses Al- Jazeera achievements in changing and growing people's opinions on politics, the media as a vehicle for community empowerment, and more. By producing new concepts through information and news that raise awareness of the Middle East community, the region's unequal social and political conditions, and the Middle East's position. In the Middle East, things are changing, and people are becoming more aware of the value of freedom and democracy. Keywords : Development; Mass Media; Al-Jazeera; Effect

In this study, Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) was utilised to examine the Al Jazeera Arabic news website with respect to its reports on the social actors in the Yemen war, particularly the KSA, UAE, Egypt and Bahrain coalition and the opposing Houthis, both before and after the Gulf crisis that occurred on 5 June 2017. The analysed data included a total of 32 news articles related to the war in Yemen, with 16 articles covering the period prior to the Crisis, from 2015 to 2017, and 16 covering the period following the onset of the crisis, from 2017 to 2019. The overall aim was to uncover the ideological implications of various linguistic elements, such as lexical choices, news headline creation, and de-legitimisation strategies, and the results revealed identifiable, distinct, and non-random changes in tone and angle of representation relating to the various social actors and their actions. Before the crisis, the coalition was represented positively while Houthis was presented negatively, while after the crisis, the tone towards these social actors was completely reversed. The various discursive strategies used in the articles across both periods thus show that the coverage of the Yemen crisis was intended to ideologically and politically guide readers' understanding of the crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Globalization scholars argue that the launch of Al-Jazeera has promoted a fairer horizontal news flow as a non-Western perspective entered the global public sphere leading to the Al-Jazeera Effect. In contrast, other scholars argue that Al-Jazeera outlets face biases and boycotts due to their Qatari origin, thus casting a shadow over the Al Jazeera Effect argument. This study employs an innovative approach to contribute to this debate by examining Al-Jazeera English (AJE) and AJ + 's Twitter following amongst four epistemic communities: ambassadors, foreign ministries, UN missions and journalists. The analysis found that AJE was consistently amongst the top five most followed new channels on Twitter, obtaining greater popularity than major Western news outlets such as Fox News and Sky News. This lends a unique empirical support for the Al-Jazeera Effect hypothesis. AJ + was found to be less popular, possibly due to its distinct nature as an online news platform. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper analyzes all the articles and corresponding comments of Al-Jazeera Arabic's coverage of the Syrian war from 2011 to 2017. I propose a multilayered Critical Discourse Analysis Guided Topic Modeling method that includes context of social structures and processes in the analysis of topics. This article shows that the employment of topic modeling without Critical Discourse Analysis does not unravel the power relations embedded within the platform. Two different applications of this method are used to demonstrate how a guided topic modeling method can lead to more nuanced results that can unravel important social dynamics which would have remained unperceived if applying traditional computational methods. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This study explores how the fluctuations of Qatari-Bahraini ties from 2011 to 2021 have influenced Al-Jazeera's legitimization of the Bahraini regime. It also measures the extent to which Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE) included Galtung's typology of violence (ToV) and peace journalism model (PJM) in their coverage of Bahrain's 2011 uprising. A total of 424 articles were analyzed from both channels. The results found that the regime's direct violence dominated the coverage, whereas its structural and cultural violence received less attention, particularly by AJA. In addition, the number of articles framing the regime's propaganda as facts dropped across both channels following the 2017 Gulf crisis. During the same period, delegitimizing frames of the regime increased in articles from AJA and AJE. The study concludes that the deterioration of Qatari-Bahraini relations after the 2017 crisis made Al-Jazeera's coverage more critical of the Bahraini regime but not necessarily more peace journalism oriented. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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News interviews in news bulletins are among the most common forms of news presentation that have not been adequately studied and researched yet. In this study, we have tried to research the special features of news interviews, their types, their different forms of presentation, the geographical areas they cover, and the categories of their guests. The study has taken the nine o'clock news bulletin on Al Jazeera as a representative model for studying news interviews on Arabic TV newscasts. The study has covered the period between March 01, 2020 and March 31, 2020, involving (244) news interviews. This exploratory study has relied on a content analysis form to collect quantitative and quantitative- qualitative data, analyze it, and then present it with illustrative tables and graphs. The study has came out with a set of results, such as the following. The number of individual interviews with guests exceeds the number of bilateral and group interviews by 76%. News interviews with the station's correspondents constitute the largest proportion compared to those with Arab and foreign interviewees. Male guests constitute the largest proportion in interviews. The vast majority of correspondents' interviews are conducted from the capitals of the countries in which they are present. The study has recommended that politicians should be hosted more in news interviews as they are a primary source of information and points of view, that interviews with correspondents should be reduced except in emergency cases; live coverage; and important events, that the percentage of women in interviews should be increased, in addition to other recommendations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is intended to discuss the development of Iran and the United States relations in the English-based international media by reading the related news material on CNN, Fox News, Al-Jazeera and Press TV websites. The quantitative content analysis has been used in this study and the statistical population includes 465 news materials during the first six months of 2019. In this study, the systematic random sampling method was used in alternate weeks, which resulted in 27 statistical days.The research findings show that most of the reviewed articles have a negative bias (64.5%). Among the reviewed websites, CNN has the highest negative bias (72.1%) according to the materials belong to Iran-US relations. In the other hand, Al-Jazeera website has the lowest negative bias (53.6%) in this regard.The research also shows that the news value of conflict was the highest among the surveyed websites with 75.3%. In the meantime, the Press TV website was the vanguard with 40.3% of all the published content.Finally, most of the reviewed websites have been focused on the news coverage related to “military, defense, war, missile capabilities and psychological operations” subjects. In this regard, Press TV was the vanguard of this category among other websites. The news about “sanctions and resolutions” was the second most used news item. In this respect, Press TV was also the vanguard.

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This study looked at the contribution of the Al Jazeera channel, whether through its news site or its official Twitter account, to spread false news and the extent of the impact of that news on the audience’s interaction. The study used the gatekeeper theory and theory of the spread of innovations to implement this study. The study also aimed to identify the extent of Al-Jazeera's reliance on Twitter to promote fake news and explore the type of news and type of content in the posted news and tweets. The researchers collected a set of news and tweets that Al-Jazeera relied on, either through its news site or on its official account on the Twitter platform, and then analyzed them to measure the extent of false news between that news and the accounts used, as well as the extent of the existence of documented or undocumented identifiers on Twitter by hashtags, the most commonly traded in Saudi Arabia. After analyzing the tweets, which numbered more than 70 news and tweets that came with the headline ”Saudi Twitters”. The study concluded that political news was the most widespread news on the Al-Jazeera News website, at a rate of 45 percent of all news. The study also found that 82 percent of the content submitted on the island relied on textual materials and photos primarily. Most of the news published on Al-Jazeera was of human interest, but Al-Jazeera has relied very heavily on unreliable accounts, at a rate of 58 percent. The study also concluded that there is a relationship between some of the identifiers and the type of news material that was published by Al-Jazeera on its news site. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Some scholars argue that following 9/11, Al-Jazeera has promoted an Arab perspective of events in the US by exporting its news materials to the US news market. The study examines the validity of this argument through a review of the literature on the issue during three successive periods of US-Al-Jazeera interactions: (a) Al-Jazeera Arabic’s representation in US mainstream media following 9/11, specifically during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; (b) Al-Jazeera English television channel’s attempts to enter the US market since 2006; and (c) the reception of Al-Jazeera America in the US, where the paper also adds an original analysis of Al-Jazeera America’s Twitter followers’ profiles. Together, these analyses provide strong counterevidence to the argument that Al-Jazeera was able to promote an Arab perspective of events in the US.

Through ethnographic observation and content analysis, this study aims to classify the Al-Jazeera Mubasher (AJM) newsroom according to the Schantin model of newsrooms, describe the network's convergence level based on the Dailey, Demo, and Spillman Dynamic Scale Model, and present a unique model elucidating how, specifically, convergence works at AJM. Based on the Schantin model of newsrooms, AJM can be classified as a second-generation newsroom, a "cross-media platforms newsroom." Convergence among the different platforms of AJM is considerable, but still below full convergence level. Accordingly, the AJM newsroom can be classified into the fourth level of the Dailey et al. Dynamic Scale Model — "content sharing." The unique AJM-specific model presented near the end of this paper depicts the ways in which different AJM platforms function and interact inside the newsroom, explains the degree of convergence between platforms, and classifies the newsroom in terms of its convergence level. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Noah's Flood is an incident which has been spoken, written and narrated since the ancient times. There are some evidences in both religious and scientific texts which propose that the Flood actually occurred during the 3000 BC. Although there are no sources to prove where exactly the Flood occurred, however some estimations were made regarding the question. One of those assertion suggests that the Flood probably occurred in the al-Jazeera's Rasulayn city. According to some medieval Arab scholars, the Flood took place in Rasulayn where Noah was native to. Therefore, those writers also suggested that the Flood occurred in Rasulayn region. This article elaborates and questions these suggestions and also investigates the causes of these suggestions made by the Arab scholars. Wo types of sources are used throughout this study. First, the primary sources which narrated of Noah's Flood which occurred in Rasulayn; and secondly, other scientific studies which supported this hypothesis. Also, divine religions' holy scriptures are sometimes referred throughout this study. We use analysing and interpreting as historical scientific research methods during this study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The communication revolution has shifted the paradigm of diplomacy by emphasizing the role of public diplomacy, at the same time complicating the environment within which state-managed public diplomacy is conducted. The rise of regional media has provided weaker states with opportunities to challenge the monopoly of information on the part of the more powerful states. Al-Hurra, the American sponsored channel to the Arab World, stands as evidence of the challenges facing US policies in this part of the world because of the influential role of regional media. It was particularly Al-Jazeera that transformed the media sphere in the Arab World as well as globally in what became known as “Al-Jazeera effect”. The paper argues that identity presentation plays a major role in determining performance of the public diplomacy of the media.

Theory of mediatized war asserts that the study of contemporary wars must consider the role of the media in it. However, while the focus of the mediatization of wars is usually on the power dynamics between the military, the media, and the audiences, the institutional approach to mediatization invites us to consider the role of the media as educators and providers of moral orientation. Thus, the study of mediatized war needs to consider the moral work of news in articulating an ethical solicitation for spectators to reflect upon their responsibility to the suffering of distant others during wartime. Following Judith Butler’s call to reflect on the cultural frames through which ethical solicitation emerges, this article studies Al-Jazeera English’s coverage of the 2008 Gaza War and points to the discursive and performative means through which news constructs distant deaths as grievable and fosters cosmopolitan sentiment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article uses critical discourse analysis (CDA) in order to analyse the discussion of the Muslim dress code (commonly referred to as the hijab) on Al Jazeera’s religious talk show A-Shari’a wal Hayat. Between 1998 and 2003, several episodes dealt with the Turkish and French ban and the ‘issue’ of the headscarf, most of them hosting prominent religious scholar Youssef Qaradawi. Drawing mostly on Fairclough’s critical analytical approach to the media, I will examine, at the micro- or local level, key linguistic strategies and rhetorical arguments deployed by participants (mostly Qaradawi, and to a lesser extent, hosts and viewers) in order to justify their position concerning the nature of the Muslim dress code. This in depth textual/local analysis will be supplemented with a brief analysis at the macro- or global level, which will look at the overall structure of these episodes in order to see the extent to which dominant positions privileged by participants at the micro level are also reinforced by the superstructure of the episodes themselves. Throughout, an intertextual analysis will be used in order to study which religious discourses from the larger socio-cultural context are drawn upon in Al-Jazeera’s discussion of the hijab. The purpose of this multi-levelled analysis is to answer the following questions: Which religious discourses on the hijab are privileged by those talk shows? Are there any differences in the range of opinions covered by the various episodes dealing with the same issue? How are the various positions, when they exist, manifested at the local/global levels of analysis? Most importantly, what do these discussions on the hijab tell us about Al-Jazeera’s self-confessed editorial line (‘the opinion and the other-opinion’) concerning one of the most controversial religious topics for Muslims?

Some scholars argue that following 9/11, Al-Jazeera has promoted an Arab perspective of events in the US by exporting its news materials to the US news market. The study examines the validity of this argument through a review of the literature on the issue during three successive periods of US-Al-Jazeera interactions: (a) Al-Jazeera Arabic's representation in US mainstream media following 9/11, specifically during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq; (b) Al-Jazeera English television channel's attempts to enter the US market since 2006; and (c) the reception of Al-Jazeera America in the US, where the paper also adds an original analysis of Al-Jazeera America's Twitter followers' profiles. Together, these analyses provide strong counterevidence to the argument that Al-Jazeera was able to promote an Arab perspective of events in the US. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Al-Jazeera–Qatari nexus is debatable and hard to examine because Qatari affairs are rarely in the news. Recently, Qatar made global headlines in connection with an alleged bribe to win the 2022 World Cup bid, which creates a rare opportunity to examine Al-Jazeera’s coverage of this as well as other Qatari affairs. We compared coverage by Al-Jazeera Arabic, Al-Jazeera English and Al-Jazeera America with coverage of international networks (Sky News, CNN International and ITV). The analysis reveals that while Al-Jazeera English and America maintained high journalistic norms when reporting on the 2022 World Cup controversy, Al-Jazeera Arabic almost never criticizes its Qatari sponsor. The study highlights the dramatic differences between Al-Jazeera’s English and Arabic versions, looking at journalistic values in general and Qatari affairs coverage in particular. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The current paper investigates reader commenting on news sites as one facet of journalism 2.0. Specifically, the themes, frequency, and regional coverage of readers’ comments—and in general, their activity levels and distribution—are considered, with a goal to increase knowledge of convergent media and computer-mediated communication (CMC), as well as shed light on the interactivity strategies adopted by influential news producers. The corpus is collected from the Arabic news site of the controversial Middle East-based, bilingual network Al Jazeera. Reader commenting was found to be a regular occurrence on the site but distributed unevenly across stories. The stories focused mostly on themes related to military and political violence, politics, and foreign relations, and covered events related to the Arab world more than other regions. Also, patterns of commenting varied according to day of the week and position of the story on the web page. Overall, these findings suggest that citizen journalism—journalism is performed by lay persons—on Al Jazeera tends to be shaped by the coverage and layout of the news site. Moreover, citizen participation in online news sites such as Al Jazeera is still far from ideal, in that commenters are given neither the access nor the facilitation to use modalities other than written text. These limitations are critiqued in light of contemporary discourses about media convergence and journalism 2.0.

Qatar’s successful bid for hosting the 2022 soccer World Cup is regarded as one in a series of attempts to change Qatar’s image as a terror-sponsoring state. To understand the power of hosting megasport events to rebuild a country’s international image, the present study compares the coverage of Qatari sport affairs with concurrent terror-sponsoring allegations, via a sentiment analysis of coverage of Qatari affairs by three international networks (SKY, CNN, and ITV) between August 20, 2013 and December 31, 2014. Surprisingly, the analysis found that terror-related articles contained significantly more positive sentiment than articles on other issues, whereas the tone toward Qatar in sport-related articles was significantly less positive than other topics. The study illustrates the limits of using sport as a soft power strategy, and underscores the superiority of on-the-ground efforts to deflect terror allegations as a strategy for improving a country’s image. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Al-Jazeera network, founded in 1996 and financed directly by Qatar’s royal family, is attributed with a significant catalytic role in the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings that swept the Middle East from 2011. However, the Qatar-based network has been criticized for facilitating and supporting the Tunisian, Egyptian, Syrian and Libyan revolutions, while not giving the same attention to the uprisings in Yemen, Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, close allies to Doha and members (Bahrain and Saudi Arabia) of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC). Using peace journalism as a source of evaluative criteria, this study examines to what extent Al-Jazeera’s online coverage (Al-Jazeera Arabic (AJA) and Al-Jazeera English (AJE)) reproduced and supported key framings of GCC foreign policy in coverage of two stories: Bahrain’s uprising during the first two weeks of the military Saudi intervention and the Syria conflict in the week that followed the Al-Ghouta Chemical Weapons (CW) attack in Damascus. Al-Jazeera’s online coverage was dominated by the war journalism frames in both countries, but AJA’s coverage of Bahrain’s uprising was more propagandistic than that of AJE. However, AJA and AJE generally agreed on Syria, as both of them were dominated by pro-GCC framing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This study is a socio-pragmatic analysis of persuasive strategies used by the participants in "al-ittijāh al-muākis", "The Opposite Direction", on the Al-Jazeera TV channel. An ethnographic approach was adopted in the research; the analysis focused on the use of politeness strategies and face-saving and face-threatening interactions in order to find out their persuasive factors. I observe that religious citations, prophetic sayings, proverbs, and metaphor are used predominantly by the participants in communicating various political issues. I argue that the persuasiveness of these rhetorical strategies stems from their aesthetic influence in establishing moral credibility and in evoking emotional responses. I also argue that these rhetorical strategies are speech acts that indirectly provoke responses and/or aim at saving the speakers' and/or addressees' face. The study concludes that persuasiveness is facilitated in part by transferring socio-pragmatic meanings through the use of some politeness and figurative devices such as honorific modes, metaphors and proverbs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]