mediation (1) , Al Jazeera and Qatar (2) . Among these topics, we note that Al Jazeera’s coverage of the Arab uprisings has received remarkable attention. Sometimes, these up- risings have been addressed as one generic event under the title “Arab Spring” or “Arab Revolutions” (3) ; sometimes as separate events specific to the countries where they took place, starting with the Tunisian revo-
(1) See for example, Mohamed el-Nawawy and Shawn Powers, Mediating Conflict: Al Ja- zeera English and the Possibility of a Conciliatory Media , (Los Angeles-CA: Figueroa Press, 2008). See also, Dominik Schmidt, The Media Power from the Arab World Al-Jazeera English: A TV Broadcaster as a Mediator in the Cultural Clash, (Germany: GRIN Verlag, 201)1. (2) Tal Samuel-Azran and Naama Pecht, “Is there an Al-Jazeera-Qatari Nexus? A Study of Al Jazeera’s Online Reporting throughout the Qatari-Saudi Conflict”, Media War & Conflict , Vol. 7, No. 2, (July 2014). (3) See for example, Mohammed Ali’s thesis, Al Jazeera and Arab Revolutions , (PhD the- sis, Kingston University, UK, 2012), and Noureddine Miladi’s book, Al Jazeera and the Arab Revolution: Public Opinion, Diplomacy and Political Change , (Intellect Ltd, UK, 2018). See also, Mahmoud Galander’s study, “Al-Jazeera, Advocacy and Media Value Determinism: Re-conceptualizing the Network’s Coverage of the Arab Spring of Revolutions”, Global Media Journal , (January 2013), and Assem Nasr’s study, “Al Jazeera and the Arab Uprisings: The Language of Images and a Medium’s Stancetaking, Communication”, Communication Culture & Critique, Vol. 7, No. 4, (2014).
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