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Hamdach, Widyane. The warfare of words in the twenty-first century: ‘war on terror’ in the eyes of the Arab media. Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-mstv-qr47

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TitleThe warfare of words in the twenty-first century: ‘war on terror’ in the eyes of the Arab media
NameHamdach, Widyane (author); Samuels, Norman (chair); Kennedy, Leslie LK (member); Allam, Nermin NA (member); Khamis, Sahar SK (member); Rutgers University; Graduate School - Newark
Date Created2022
Other Date2022-01 (degree)
SubjectInternational relations, Journalism, Middle Eastern studies, War on Terrorism, 2001-2009, in mass media
Extent324 pages
DescriptionThis dissertation examines the war on terror from the Arab media perspective by exploring how two different Arab media groups portrayed the War on Terror: the first group is Aljazeera-Arabic, and the second group is (Al Arabiya and Egyptian media outlets). These news outlets were selected because they are notably different in their coverage of terrorism and to conduct comparative analysis to address the following research questions: How is the War on Terror portrayed in the Arab Media? And what are the main similarities and differences between group 1 and Group 2 in their coverage of War on Terror? Qualitative research method is suitable approach to answer these type of research questions and to examine common themes in the Arab media discourse. The findings of qualitative research are powerful and truthful as they reflect the views of the Arab media on terrorism. The sample size includes 250 news materials published after 9/11/2001 (the declaration of the war on terror) to mid-2019. The data was randomly selected at a fixed interval (5th news article in each page) and based on the published date of the news. Coding was conducted by highlighting major themes in the Arab media coverage of the war on terror. Qualitative Data Analysis was utilized to interpret the collected data and findings. This study helps us understand how Arab states deal with terrorism and assess the effectiveness of their counterterrorism policy, the crucial role of politics in shaping the Arab media, the destructive impact of the war on human rights, the roots behind the warfare of words between major Arab states (Qatar vs. Saudi Arabia and Egypt) and their relations with the US, and how the war remodeled foreign relations and the traditional/Westphalian meaning of sovereignty, and explores some solutions to eradicate terrorism. Our understanding of terrorism is evolving, it varies according to place, time, and world events. Thus, this study explores how the Arab media framed the war on terror across different events and time periods within the national and international dynamics and geopolitical interests.
NotePh.D.
NoteIncludes bibliographical references
Genretheses
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/t3-mstv-qr47
LanguageEnglish, Arabic
CollectionGraduate School - Newark Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Organization NameRutgers, The State University of New Jersey
RightsThe author owns the copyright to this work.
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