Libya, the media and the language of violence: A Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis

The Arab revolution euphoria of 2011 was covered around the clock by different media sites, engaging millions of followers around the world, and eventually turning into discontent in some affected countries. This study examines the outcomes of the Libyan uprising (2011–2015), specifically the topics of civil-war and terrorism, through the lenses of the Arab written media in Arabic (Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya), the Arab written media in English (Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya), and the Western written media in English (BBC and CNN). Through Corpus-Assisted Discourse Analysis (CADS), integrating discursive news values analysis (DNVA), this study highlights the ideological representations of these media, and examines their similarities and differences in terms of frequency distribution and story content. The findings indicate that the media coverage of the outcomes of the Libyan Revolution, when reporting on the topics of war and terrorism, follow similar directions in the story content and the frequency distribution, with some differences in the latter between the analysed media sites. Also, the collocations, concordances, and DNVA results, especially NEGATIVITY, IMPACT and ELITENESS, prove the emphasis of the media on violent language, making terrorism appear the norm, and thus manipulating the audience and affecting their understanding of the news.

TAHLILU MAWAD AD DIRASIYAH FI KITAB AL ARABIYAH AL MUFRIHAH

Good material and appropriate books, as needed, will help the students and the teacher while teaching. The Arabic Language Development Unit Program is obligatory for all university students at the State Islamic University of Antasari in Banjarmasin. This program is one of the conditions for obtaining a bachelor's degree. This research aims to analyze the book "Al-Arabiya Al-Mufarriha 2" from the linguistic aspect, teaching objectives, and the element of exercises. The type of this research is qualitative desk research with an analytical and descriptive approach. The researcher designed the design of this research as follows: The researcher began to take the data related to and needed to analyze the book “Al-Arabiya Al-Mufarriha 2”, the researcher determined the desired objectives for analyzing the data, and at the end, the researcher began to explore the crucial aspects of the book “Al-Arabiya Al-Mufarriha 2” of the advantages and disadvantages according to the objectives. The results of this research are the vocabulary and exercises from the book that are appropriate and consistent with the goals of teaching; some of the images used did not match the vocabulary intended for training.

THE CATEGORY OF SHEIKH AL-ARABIYA IBN JINNI(392) IN THE LIMIT OF THE LANGUAGE IS A SCIENCE OF MATURITY AND HAS NOT BEEN BURNED

Modern linguistic theory has presented multiple linguistic cognitive problems Including: Langue, Langage and the function of language and its relationship to thought. And based on the fact that language is above all a human phenomenon that can be described and formed We tried to study a linguistic Category of the Arab scholar Ibn Jinni (d.392 AH) in ((The limit of the language is voices that all people express their purposes)), And analyze it according to modern linguistic theories The research is divided into three topics: the idiomatic dimension, the philosophical-linguistic dimension, and the functional dimension represented by: the social function, which is divided into several functions, including: expressive, deliberative, communicative, and is concluded with a conclusion that summarizes the results of the research

# AstraZeneca vaccine disinformation on Twitter

We analyzed 50,080 tweets about # AstraZeneca in English from 2021. We found that the news most common in the frequently retweeted tweets abound in negative information, and in many cases come from media sources well-known for disinformation. Also, we found that RT, a Russian state-sponsored news website, as well as Al Arabiya, a Saudi-owned news website, are frequently retweeted with information about the vaccine. Our analysis identified large coordination networks involved in political astroturfing and vaccine diplomacy in South Asia but also vaccine advocacy networks associated with European Commission employees. Our results show that Twitter discourse about # AstraZeneca is filled with disinformation and bad press, and may be distributed not only organically by anti-vaxxer activists, but also systematically by professional sources.HighlightsMost commonly retweeted media news links abound in negative informationWell established disinformation media sources are retweeted moreState coordinated networks are active in # AstraZeneca astroturfing

Foreign Correspondents between the Hammer and the Anvil

For many decades, Egypt has been considered a distinctive society in which individuals from different nations with different backgrounds and ideologies can live. However, it seems that the Egyptian political, social, and media landscape has witnessed considerable shifts in the dimensions of such diversity. This study examines the contemporary Egyptian perspective on the presence of foreign correspondents and the radical change in Egypt’s regulations toward their work, and moreover, the repercussions of such policies that might be affecting the safety, level of freedom, and sometimes the whole identity of foreign correspondents in Egypt. Moreover, it examines the tactics with which the government seeks to accentuate the discourses of “Othering” in Egyptian public perceptions via whipping up hype in the media. Undoubtedly, the events experienced by Egypt between 25 January 2011 and the present have changed the idea the state and society have of foreigners, in general, and foreign correspondents, in particular. Some indicators confirmed that a state of “xenophobia” has been escalating over the past nine years. Foreign correspondents and journalists have been among the groups harmed by this sentiment, to the detriment of their working conditions. Results show that the transitional period that followed Hosni Mubarak’s toppling in 2011 until today has witnessed many transformations in the handling of foreign correspondents’ work in Egypt. There have been attacks on and expulsions of journalists from Al Arabiya, Al Jazeera, The Associated Press, the BBC, CBS, CNN, Danish television, and others.

Critical Discourse Analysis of Online Publications Ideology: A Case of Middle Eastern Online Publications

This study assesses the reflection of Middle Eastern media networks on the states and the news concerning the oil crisis and Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) conditions. A critical discourse analysis approach is adopted to analyze 22 articles from Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya regarding the Qatar withdrawal from OPEC. The ideological choices vary as Al Jazeera is focused on the Qatar economy, while Al Arabiya on Saudi Arabia. These online publications have presented a positive self-presentation of their funded country while the negative representation of the other. Al Jazeera has pointed that the exit of Qatar from the OPEC is to focus on its other non–oil production sector, while Al Arabiya has pointed that this exit is due to the primary role of Saudi Arabia, with which Qatar has an on-going conflict. Qatar is symbolic to broaden regional division, which may later diffuse to other OPEC members and will leave no mark on the decision-making process of the alliance.

When news is the crisis: Al Jazeera and Al Arabiya framing of the 2017 Gulf conflict

The 2017 Gulf crisis raises important questions about what happens when news networks become part and parcel of a political conflict. This research employs content analysis to analyse how two flagship evening news programmes – Al-Hasad ( The Harvest) on Al Jazeera and Panorama on Al Arabiya – framed the early phase of the 2017 Gulf crisis. The study provides an elucidation of how, specifically, editorial positions were made manifest and, importantly, what framing mechanisms were employed. Results suggest that Al Jazeera’s Al-Hasad took the position of a victim being attacked by an external oppressor, while Al Arabiya’s Panorama framed Qatar as a sponsor of terrorism.