Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/AEG29RCC Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. The media contributes a vital role in raising public health awareness within society, especially in times of disease outbreaks and epidemics. This role grows according of the possibilities and tools the media and communication entities possess to help it …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/RA29PHAM On September 16, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump hosted the signing ceremony for the tripartite diplomatic normalization agreement, known as the Abraham Accords, between the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Bahrain, and Israel at the White House. The UAE is the third Arab country to declare …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/NAE29IUY Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between the use of internet applications by young people in Yemen and their level of awareness of electronic rumors about current events and conflict in the country. To achieve this objective, the …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/OMR29RMA Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Turkey’s Council of State, the highest Turkish administrative court, handed down its decision on July 10, 2020 regarding Hagia Sophia. The council reversed the monument’s status from a museum back into a mosque as from July 24, sparking heated …

Issue 30, summer/fall 2020 https://doi.org/10.70090/MAF29ESE Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. This paper examines the content and impact of negative messages targeting the Egyptian state, its figures, and institutions. After laying out the relevant literature and history of the pertinent concepts such as fourth-generation warfare, media propaganda, rumors and framing, …

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/SS28BASJ Science journalism in the Arab world has passed through many ups and downs; this has been particularly true for the better part of the last decade. Science journalists and editors were initially optimistic that the opening of the media landscape ushered in by the uprisings …

مرّت الصحافة العلمية في العالم العربي بالكثير من مراحل الصعود والهبوط، ولعل ذلك أصدق ما يكون في الجانب الأفضل من العِقد المنصرم؛ إذ استشعر الصحفيون والمحررون العلميون تفاؤلاً في باديء الأمر على أثر فتح الآفاق الإعلامية الذي آذَنَت به ثورات عام 2011، فظنوا أنه سيحقق لمجال الصحافة العلمية المتخصصة نهضةً …

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/FEK28KSC Abstract The main objective of this paper is to seek an answer to an important research question: Why did some communication campaigns on health and population issues in Egypt succeed, while others failed to make the desired impact on behavior and subsequent outcomes, such as …

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/ASH28CES Scroll down for the Arabic abstract. Social Networking platforms impose new methods of creating audiovisual content, through the use of new technologies; this has also altered the nature of content production and consumption. Social networking platforms represent an ostensibly free, advanced and low-cost space, allowing …

Issue 28, summer/fall 2019 https://doi.org/10.70090/EAR28CAD Abstract In light of the advancing digital environment and the interest in boosting scientific content published on digital platforms, this paper seeks to define and critically analyze the discourse of popular science shows (henceforth, “PSS”). Considering the fact that religion serves as a major foundational …