Issue 40, Summer/Fall 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.40jfyb Abstract The Jordanian government has officially adopted a ‘neutral’ foreign policy position on the war in Ukraine since 2022, providing an interesting case for examining media responses to conflict in a context where official positions are often supported and reproduced by media participants. To examine …
Read More »Islamic Soft Power in a Contested World Cup: YouTube Media Framing and Audience Responses to Qatar 2022
Issue 39, Winter/Spring 2025 http://doi.org/10.70090/AMS.39whf Abstract Western media widely framed Qatar 2022 as the “most controversial World Cup in history”, with debate centering on migrant labor abuses, human rights violations, and LGBTQ+ discrimination rather than religion or culture. This article examines how YouTube videos and their comment sections reproduce, contest, …
Read More »BOOK REVIEW | Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions
Book Title: Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions Editor: Noureddine Miladi Publisher: I.B. Tauris (an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing) Year of Publication: 2023 Pages: 296 This book review examines Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions, edited by Noureddine …
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