Converging and Diverging Images of Arab Women in Western Media during the Arab Spring: A Corpus-Based Study.

This study relates the general images of Arab women in news dscourse during the Arab Spring to specific ones in different Arab countries. We used a self-compiled complex corpus and its 20 subcorpora, each consisting of articles published about women from a specific Arab country by British and Americ...

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Publicado en:International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) Vol. 26; no. 1; pp. 247 - 267
Autores principales: Sawalha, Majdi, Mustafa-Awad, Zahra, Kirner-Ludwig, Monika
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Publicado: International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES) Jan2026
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          The University of Jordan, Jordan Al-Ain University, UAE.
          The University of Jordan, Jordan.
          University of Innsbruck, Austria.
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        Arab Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012
        Mass media
        Political stability
        Corpora
        National character
        Arabs
        Frames (Social sciences)
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          Arab Spring Uprisings, 2010-2012
          Mass media
          Political stability
          Corpora
          National character
          Arabs
          Frames (Social sciences)
          Discourse
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        Arab countries
        Arab Spring
        Arab women
        stereotypes
        topical frames
        western media
      ab: This study relates the general images of Arab women in news dscourse during the Arab Spring to specific ones in different Arab countries. We used a self-compiled complex corpus and its 20 subcorpora, each consisting of articles published about women from a specific Arab country by British and American news media during 2010–2014. These articles were categorized into four datasets according to the political stability in the countries they are associated with: Arab Spring, conflict, semi-stable, and stable countries. Each subcorpus was analysed for the occurring collocates of woman/women, which were then classified according to the topical frames they reflected. The themes were compared within and across the four categories and to those identified earlier in the complex corpus. The results indicate discrepancies between the general depictions of Arab women and those particular to women of different nationalities. Despite the commonalities among all Arab women, images of those from specific nationalities provide evidence for profound variations among them.
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