Since 2011, the Kuwaiti telecom company Zain Group, one of the largest in the Middle East, has produced a series of popular ads broadcast annually during Ramadan. The ads are songs, usually featuring celebrities singing and dancing with children. Since 2015, the ads have become noticeably more political. In 2016, …

Scroll down for English abstract. بلغ عدد مستخدمي "الويب" في المجتمع المصري نحو 49.23 مليون مستخدم وفقاً لإحصائيات ديسمبر 2017م أي بما يُمثِّل نحو 49.5% من عدد السكان المُقدّر بنحو 99.4 مليون نسمة، كما يبلغ عدد المشتركين في خدمات شبكة الفيس بوك نحو 35 مليون مشترك. ويُمثِّل الشباب القطاع الأكبر …

Scroll down for English abstract. شهد موضوع السلامة المهنية للصحفيين اهتماماً كبيراً في السنوات الأخيرة؛ وذلك لوجود الكثير من الصحفيين العاملين في مناطق سجلت أنها مناطق خطرة على الصحفيين، وعلى سلامتهم المهنية، والبدنية، والشخصية، وفي الإطار نفسه قامت بعض المؤسسات بوضع قواعد للسلامة المهنية للصحفيين، إلا أن الكثير منهم لم …

Scroll down for English abstract. على الرغم من أهمية العمل التطوعي في مسارات التنمية المستدامة، وفى استثمار وقت الشباب فى أعمال تطوعية مفيدة، فإن ممارسة العمل الاجتماعي التطوعي تختلف من مجتمع لآخر ومن منطقة لأخرى، ومن وسيلة إعلامية لأخرى؛ حيث تتنوع كفاءتها ودرجاتها التأثيرية فى الجمهور؛ ومن ثم تتبلور مشكلة …

Abstract Recently the Moroccan public had to grapple with what was perceived to be a worrying upsurge in youth crime related to Tsharmil or (cyber) bullying in the Moroccan vernacular. Mainstream media coverage of this issue ushered in an overwhelming sense of panic towards “deviant” youth that pose a serious …

Abstract Music is the language that everyone understands. As an element of culture, music evolved with the development of civilizations. Some of the religious subgroups produced a unique type of music that echoed in the Arabian Peninsula as well as nearby civilizations, such as Andalusia and Persia. This type of …

It was the go-to pan-Arab newspaper that noted journalists, analysts, and anyone worth their salt wrote for, and that readers seeking professional reporting and deconstructing of events picked up for balanced coverage, diverse views, and hard-hitting editorials—all relatively speaking, of course. Quite a tall order for a daily in a …

Sitting in a Cairo cafe in a crowded mall surrounded by crowds of people I watch Egyptian fans cheering for their favourite team to win the World Cup final match as if cheering for their own nation. The majority were rooting for the Croatian team—a fact that was very obvious from where I …

Since the uprisings that spread across the Arab region took hold in Libya in 2011 and forced the removal of longtime ruler Muammar al-Gadhafi, the country’s fortunes have spiraled downwards. Despite an unsustainable system of governance, Gadhafi’s harsh rule had maintained relative stability in a country with a history of …

The following is an excerpt from Andrew Hammond's chapter "Producing Salafism: From Invented Tradition to State Agitprop" in the volume Salman's Legacy, edited by Madawi Al-Rasheed and published by Hurst (2018).  Saudi foreign policy did not begin to play with Islamic themes until the 1960s. Wary of any scheme of meaningful …