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Sara Shaker

Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Prince Edward Island, Cairo Campus, The New Administrative Capital, Cairo, Egypt

Email: sara.shaker@uofcanada.edu.eg

Mic Check for the Middle East: Podcasts Framing and Geopolitical Narratives of the June 2025 Israeli Strike on Iran

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Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40rha Abstract This article explores how English-language audio podcasts frame the geopolitical narratives of the June 2025 Israeli strike on Iran, focusing on how legitimacy, threat, and resistance are discursively articulated. Moving beyond approaches that treat podcasts as neutral or reflective media, the study argues they …

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