Dynamics of the Diasporic Syrian Media in Egypt: The Context and Perspectives

Saleh, Alamira Samah

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“…Indeed, in some areas the Alawi-only Shabiha was expanded to include Sunnis -crime and material gain were as much a motivator as sectarian chauvinism. 80 This reinforces the earlier point that sect was far from the only driver of the conflict.…”

Section: Drivers Of Sectarianism In Syria's Civil Warsupporting

confidence: 80%

“…Some would play a leading role in the regime's bloody repression of the Muslim Brotherhood, culminating in the Hama massacre of 1982 when over 10,000 were slaughtered. 52 Hafez al-Assad's external enemies also played the sect card. President Anwar Sadat of Egypt launched a steady stream of sectarian propaganda on Radio Cairo, which was listened to in Syria, while King Hussein of Jordan also highlighted the 'Alawi nature' of the regime.…”

Section: Sect and Nation Under Hafez Al-assadmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Sectarianism and conflict in Syria

Phillips

2015

Third World Quarterly

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This article challenges the sectarian narrative of Syria's current civil war, which relies on several false assumptions about the nature of political identity. It first questions how sectarian the uprising and civil war actually are, suggesting that the conflict is 'semi-sectarian', given the multiple other fault lines of contention, notably class, ideology and other non-sect, sub-state ties. It then draws on the theoretical debates between primordialists, ethno-symbolists and modernists to historicise political identity development in Syria. In doing so, it reasserts the modernist case, emphasising how political identities in Syria, both national and sectarian, have developed in a complex interrelated manner in the modern era and how the recent violent mobilisation of sectarian identity is the result of long-and short-term structural, economic, socio-cultural and political factors rather than unchanging ancient animosities. Of these, the most vital remain structural changes and elite reactions to them, with the prospect of state collapse in Syria's future the most likely cause of a descent into further sectarian chaos.

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Section: Drivers Of Sectarianism In Syria's Civil Warsupporting

confidence: 80%

Section: Sect and Nation Under Hafez Al-assadmentioning

confidence: 97%

Sectarianism and conflict in Syria

Phillips

2015

Third World Quarterly

111

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“…To illustrate, news reports that incorporate live blogs and social media videos are criticized for oversimplifying the refugee crisis from an emotional, sensational, and subjective perspective. Eventually, leading to the decline of news media as an "official media source" (Saleh, 2017).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Increasingly, reporters draw on user-provided content including eye-witness reports, videos, and photographs when reporting on the Syrian crisis (Cvetkovic & Pantic, 2018). Partly, the salience of user-generated content stems from "life-risks" journalists face when reporting on the Syrian conflict (Sacco & Gorin, 2017;Saleh, 2017). As a result of increased kidnappings and user-demand for "quick paced" and interactive news, organizations began to incorporate user-provided videos, photos, and sources provided on social media into online newspapers (Sacco & Gorin, 2017;Sambrook, 2016).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Covering Syrian refugee women Online. (2019)

Khouri¹

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This paper explores the representation of Syrian refugee women in online news sites in Lebanon and the UK between 2014 and 2016. This paper asks, “How do different contexts influence news coverage of Syrian refugee women in the BBC-UK and The Daily Star-Lebanon”? Similar themes that emerged in the BBC and Daily Star include an emphasis on the benevolence of host-countries and security measures abroad. Home was discussed according to spatial, relational, and emotional aspects. Both news sites draw on the invisibility of identifiable refugee facial features, when cued in line. Distinctly, a women empowerment theme appeared in the Lebanese sample only. Whereas, the British news site is polarized by articles covering relocation policies to the UK. Outliers in the data include: family separations between Syrian women married to Palestinians and their un(official) return to Syria. Findings support a multi-level/modal perspective to news analysis. Especially, expanding on the multi-level approach by introducing new contexts of location, time, and space. Through reviewing news articles in national level news sites, this paper highlights dominant political actors, narratives, and policies in Lebanon and the UK.

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‘Journalism in another form’: How exile experiences from Burundi renegotiate key elements of journalism

Esther,

Thomas

2024

Media, War & Conflict

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Since the renewed outbreak of the ongoing crisis in Burundi in May 2015, triggering a media crackdown, over one-third of the country’s reporters have gone into exile. They therefore joined an increasing number of journalists worldwide who are forced into exile. Between 2015 and 2021, many of the exiled Burundian journalists continued reporting for newly founded exile media in neighbouring Rwanda. Before their forced closure in 2021, these exile media had established themselves as successful outlets providing the only independent information from an otherwise blacked-out country. Based on semi-structured interviews with 10 exiled Burundian journalists conducted in Rwanda in 2020, this article exemplifies how the condition of exile impacts journalistic practice and norms, and renegotiates ideas of media professionalism. It is shown how Burundian exiled journalists display a strong personal conscience as journalists highlighting the voice of the voiceless and attempting to separate activism from their journalism. At the same time, the findings identify the main struggles of Burundian exiled journalists in maintaining operational objectivity, which depends on funding, providing balanced reporting without access to official sources and conducting verification of information in the unattainable field. These challenges are in line with the findings of several other case studies with exiled journalists from different regions. Therefore, this article complements the rapidly growing body of literature on exile journalism with a Global South perspective, which to date is not well represented on the map of exile journalism that mostly features cases of exile in the Global North. Furthermore, this article shows that situating exile experiences within existing theories and frameworks of journalism presents limits as exile journalism, as in the Burundian case, is journalism ‘in another form’ with new practices and renegotiated standards of professionalism.

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Dynamics of the Diasporic Syrian Media in Egypt: The Context and Perspectives

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Sectarianism and conflict in Syria

Sectarianism and conflict in Syria

Covering Syrian refugee women Online. (2019)

‘Journalism in another form’: How exile experiences from Burundi renegotiate key elements of journalism

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