The article critically examines how faculty in journalism and mass communication perceive the Covid-19 impact on higher education in Egypt. Using an online survey ( N = 135) and 14 in-depth interviews in spring–summer 2020, the article contextualizes the faculty’s ambivalent perceptions within the diffusion of innovation theory. The article bridges a gap in the existing literature by localizing this disrupted delivery in relation to the broader challenges and opportunities for diffusion of digital innovations in higher education. The results nuance the debate on digital education beyond a techno-determinist focus on digital skills to encompass societal awareness of regional and culture-specific digital inequalities.

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Body image in Egyptian magazine covers: A visual and textual content analysis A comparative study between the coverage of "AlShorouk" & "ElMasry elyoum" newspapers Ph.D. in Journalism Faculty of Mass Communication-Cairo University, Egypt Sara Elmaghraby Introduction: Body image has emerged as the main element of mental and physical well-being. It is defined as the beliefs a person has about how he/she looks, the feelings they have about their looks as well as the perceptions about their bodies. Body image is defined as the way a person perceives weight, body size and appearance. (Pompper & Koenig, 2004) The term body image appeared in 1935 by Paul Schilder who talked about schizophrenia and its effect on not recognizing one`s body. Some other terms appeared in the following years such as body dissatisfaction and body image distortion. Many factors affect the body image such as the memories someone has of himself, his/ her personal experiences, the society, and the culture. The media plays a significant role in body image. It is known from sociocultural theory that a growing number of studies address the question of whether the Body Perfect ideals in the mass media are the main risk factor for negative Body image, especially for women. (Dittmar, 2009) According to Cultivation Theory and Social Learning Theory, 2002 suggest that the repeated exposure to media content leads viewers to begin to accept media portrayals as a representation of reality.

Humor helps understand social and political behavior and it is not common among scholars in Egypt and the Arab world. This paper aims at analyzing Humor in Egyptian Newspaper cartoons and columns in order to investigate the use of Humor Techniques in the Egyptian Press. It uses Humor as a tool of analysis that provides the researcher with qualitative data. Using a 9-coding scheme, this paper answers the questions of the themes of the humor, its content, its target and its aim and mainly its techniques. The results of this paper reveal a wide use of humor techniques among Egyptian cartoonists and columnists in different Egyptian newspapers as well a variety of themes, content, targets, and aims.