ing the global South as opposed to the centrality of the North (1) , and a voice for the voiceless (2) . These and several other similar topics looked at Al Jazeera in general and examined its effect as a media phenomenon from outside the traditional regional and global context. In terms of the widespread interest in Al Jazeera within academia, the following fig- ures give us as a quantitative indicator of its significance. As mentioned above, Al Jazeera caught the attention of the aca- demic community at an early stage, and more books and research fol- lowed in the subsequent years. In 2016, Al Jazeera Centre for Study issued a guide for academic research on the network, monitoring most of the research conducted between 1996 and 2016. The guide included 240 works ranging between master theses, PhD dissertations, and pub- lished books (2) . It also featured details and abstracts of 84 doctoral dis- sertations, 88 Master theses, and 68 books. In addition to the previous works included in the guide, this chapter also examines 45 additional doctoral dissertations, 70 master theses, and 35 books, as well as 165 research papers in refereed journals. Overall, this chapter documented 550 academic works on Al Jazeera conducted between 1996 and 2020. It is worth mentioning the works were conducted in 20 languages: Ar- abic, English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Turkish, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, Indonesian, Malawi, Slovenian, Czech, Finnish, Icelandic and Dutch. Given this linguistic diversity, it is evident that there is great inter- (1) Tine Ustad Figenschou, Al Jazeera and the Global Media Landscape: The South is Talking Back , (New York-London: Routledge, 2013). (2) Emma Nyrén, The Voice of the Voiceless”: News Production and Journalistic Practice at Al Jazeera English (Master thesis, Stockholm University, Sweden, 2014). Alia Daoud, Giving a Voice to the Voiceless: A Comparative Study of Al Jazeera English and Al Jazeera Arabic Coverage of the Syrian Refugee Crisis , (Master thesis, Auckland University of Technology, New Zeeland, 2019). Tine Ustad Figenschou, “A Voice for the Voiceless? A Quantitative Content Analysis of Al-Ja- zeera English’s Flagship News”. Global Media and Communication , Vol. 6, No. 1, (2010). (2) Ezzeddine Abdelmoula and Sara Nasr, Academic Research on Al Jazeera: 1996-2016 , (Beirut: Al Jazeera Centre for Studies and the Arab Scientific Publishers, 2016).
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