In 2011, the international community watched as a shockingly unlikely community of citizens
toppled three of the world's most entrenched dictators: Ben Ali in Tunisia, Mubarak in Egypt …

Language, Society and Power is an accessible introduction to studying language in a variety
of social contexts. This book examines the ways language functions, how it influences the …

The spreading of new Coronavirus in addition to becoming a global phenomenon, following
the declaration of a pandemic state, has generated excessive access to information …

Can the promise of data-driven reporting as an empirical form of journalistic inquiry take root
in the Arab region, where public data are often inaccessible, equipment and skills are in …

This study reports findings from what is, to the authors' knowledge, the first nationally
representative survey of public attitudes toward honor-based violence (HBV) in a Middle …

The theory of the Spiral of Silence (Noelle-Neumann, 1984), explained why the view of a
minority is not presented when the majority view dominates the public sphere. For years the …

This article addresses the usefulness of the concepts public sphere, counterpublics, and
cultural citizenship for understanding some of the most popular noncommercial Lebanese …

Where criticism of a government could be punishable, political cartoons are used to make
critical social commentary in a less direct way. In this study, political cartoons published in …

Did digital media really" cause" the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story
behind what might become democracy's fourth wave? An unlikely network of citizens used …

The current study explored media use and media multitasking activities among college
students in Kuwait based on the results of a cross-sectional survey (N= 179). The study …