How Media Portray U.S.

in Arab World

GLBL 499 SECT AOCRN 69030

MONDAYS & WEDNESDAYSOPEN TO ALL

UNDERGRADUATES & GRADUATE STUDENTS

NO KNOWLEDGE OF ARABIC REQUIRED Photo by Jamal Elshayyal of Al-Jazeera English,

licensed under Wikimedia Creative Commons

11 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

How and why Arab media create positive or

negative images of the U.S in the Arab street, which may increase or decrease anti-America

attitudes.

Compares coverage of same topics by

traditional, online and social media in U.S. and various Arab countries.

Journalists, researchers and average citizens from

both U.S. and Arab nations will share their own understanding and

evaluation.

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