Al-Mayadeen: The Construction of an Enemy Image
This article investigates how threat narratives and enemy images were constructed at the pan-Arab news TV station, al-Mayadeen, during the station’s first year on air. I argue that the construction of an enemy image takes places as a fine interplay between threat narratives of existing political and...
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Freie Universität Berlin
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| description | This article investigates how threat narratives and enemy images were constructed at the pan-Arab news TV station, al-Mayadeen, during the station’s first year on air. I argue that the construction of an enemy image takes places as a fine interplay between threat narratives of existing political and ideological positions on the one hand, and current affairs on the other. Al-Mayadeen
started broadcasting in 2012, counteracting both the new influential narratives of young activists calling for democracy, and the Sunni Islamist trend that followed; both groups became central elements in a process of ‘Othering’ at al-Mayadeen, dividing the Arab world into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. AlMayadeen relaunched the question of Palestine, while the well-known threat narrative of Israel was equally promoted although adjusted to ongoing political and military developments in the region. Integrating the rising new actor, the Islamic State, a renewed enemy image was constructed where
Israel and the Islamic State came to constitute two faces of the same enemy. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-df30c440d8d64beeaeee2ee6d09f17c22024-03-03T01:32:48ZdeuFreie Universität BerlinGlobal Media Journal: German Edition2196-48072020-07-0110110.22032/dbt.44935Al-Mayadeen: The Construction of an Enemy ImageChristine Crone0 University of CopenhagenThis article investigates how threat narratives and enemy images were constructed at the pan-Arab news TV station, al-Mayadeen, during the station’s first year on air. I argue that the construction of an enemy image takes places as a fine interplay between threat narratives of existing political and ideological positions on the one hand, and current affairs on the other. Al-Mayadeen started broadcasting in 2012, counteracting both the new influential narratives of young activists calling for democracy, and the Sunni Islamist trend that followed; both groups became central elements in a process of ‘Othering’ at al-Mayadeen, dividing the Arab world into ‘good’ and ‘bad’. AlMayadeen relaunched the question of Palestine, while the well-known threat narrative of Israel was equally promoted although adjusted to ongoing political and military developments in the region. Integrating the rising new actor, the Islamic State, a renewed enemy image was constructed where Israel and the Islamic State came to constitute two faces of the same enemy.https://www.db-thueringen.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/dbt_derivate_00050181/GMJ19_Crone.pdfal-mayadeenarab mediaarab uprisingsenemy imageotheringthreat narrative |
| spellingShingle | Christine Crone Al-Mayadeen: The Construction of an Enemy Image Global Media Journal: German Edition al-mayadeen arab media arab uprisings enemy image othering threat narrative |
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| topic | al-mayadeen arab media arab uprisings enemy image othering threat narrative |
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