Al Jazeera and Al Jazeera English: A Comparative Institutional Analysis

Media, Identities, and Immigrants: Arab Satellite Television in Italy

The field of global media has recently seen the publication of several books on the relationship between the media, belonging, and migrants. This research focuses on the complex cultural positioning of communities, who, for a variety of reasons, move to a new country and inhabit the new culture. This article first maps some theoretical and empirical investigations on the issues of immigrants, a...

Review of The Culture of Al Jazeera: Inside an Arab Media Giant

International terrorism , domestic coverage ? How terrorist attacks are

The article analyzes to what extent news reporting on terrorist attacks globalized, regionalized, or country specific. We compare coverage on four terrorist incidents in the main news shows of the US edition of CNN, of Al Jazeera’s Arabic language service, of the British BBC, and of the German ARD. The analysis shows cross-national similarities in several dimensions: the analyzed media devote n...

Recent advances in ASR applied to an Arabic transcription system for Al-Jazeera

This paper describes a detailed comparison of several state-ofthe-art speech recognition techniques applied to a limited Arabic broadcast news dataset. The different approaches were all trained on 50 hours of transcribed audio from the Al-Jazeera news channel. The best results were obtained using i-vectorbased speaker adaptation in a training scenario using the Minimum Phone Error (MPE) criteri...

The Impact of Grammatical Shifts on the Quranic Rhetorical Questions Translated into English: A Comparative Study

This comparative study aimed at finding out the types of grammatical shifts which have occurred in two English translations of the Quranic rhetorical questions, and the impact of such shifts on the said rhetorical questions. For these purposes, the study firstly analyzed the Arabic and English texts syntactically using the x-bar theory for Haegeman (2006) and then classified the grammatical shi...