Noha Mellor
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1268374 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Noha Mellor |
| PRENOMES | Noha |
| SOBRENOME | Mellor |
| ASSINATURA | MELLOR N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Sharjah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3709-4808 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 37 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2007 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Negotiating empowerment
Navigating Precarity
The push for economic diversification among the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states, such as the United Arab Emirates (UAE), led to a massive investment in the creative sector and an influx of temporary creative labour to the Gulf region. This research, based on interviews with ten freelancers in Dubai Media City, examines how freelancers navigate precarity as both an enabler and a hindrance: While temporary work creates uncertainties, the bene…
Sumud as journalistic practice
This study focuses on the testimonies of 16 Al Jazeera Arabic correspondents reporting from Gaza to show how Palestinian journalists confront trauma through a practice rooted in sumud or steadfastness. It explores how these journalists navigate personal suffering and displacement as they narrate collective memory. This study challenges Western-centric trauma journalism frameworks by arguing that emotional proximity and authorial subjectivity are …
Uncovering the neglected narratives
The narratives about migration due to environmental crises are often obscured in mainstream Arab media coverage, which tends to focus mainly on the geopolitical drivers of migration. This article fills this research lacuna by shedding much-needed light on the intersections between media, conflict, and climate change seen from the perspectives of Arab science journalists. This study focuses on a sample of Arab journalists ( N = 17) who are special…
Digital shifts in Emirati film
The emerging film sector in the UAE faces new challenges and opportunities with the rise of online streaming services, although these challenges may outweigh the opportunities. This study aims to address the knowledge gap in exploring the impact of online streaming services on the UAE film industry. Through qualitative interviews with ten Emirati industry professionals, the study explores the challenges and opportunities that online streaming ser…
Legitimation strategies of Egyptian exiled broadcasters in Türkiye
This study explores the role of exiled Egyptian journalists in Türkiye, emphasizing their attempts to establish legitimacy and a professional identity that sets them apart from mainstream media. Drawing on the transnational exile complex framework and utilizing van Leeuwen's legitimation strategies, the research focuses on seven prominent broadcasters associated with these outlets, ranked by their YouTube subscribers, to investigate how these jou…
The Digital Double Bind
Narratives Beyond Borders
Systemic failures undermine the education sector in Egypt
Exploring uses and gratifications of podcasts among young arab audiences
This study analyzes podcast consumption patterns among young audiences in the United Arab Emirates, exploring the motivations and engagement of Emirati youth with this burgeoning media form. Utilizing a survey of 400 young participants, this research examines the various gratifications of podcasts, including entertainment, information acquisition, and community interaction. It assesses the use and impact of podcasts across different genres. The f…
The digital divide in the journalism sector
This article argues that the digital sphere has maintained the offline hierarchal forms of political, economic, and cultural powers, taking the Arab journalism sector as a topical case study. The article explores the potential of digital platforms as a new source of revenue for Arab news media and a new site for disseminating informative content that helps push the freedom of speech in the region. It demonstrates the difficulty of achieving eithe…
Mediating Poverty on Arab Television
The recent interest in depicting poverty on Arab television has increased through a new genre of reality television shows focused on charity. This article focuses on one such show on Iraqi television. Through a multimodal analysis of selected recent episodes, the article asks how poverty is being mediated, what the overarching narrative is and its underpinning values and norms. The analysis is anchored on the concept of divine economy, which emph…
Exploring variations in using emojis in digital communication in the UAE
This research aims to explore how people in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) use emojis on social media and the communicative functions of emojis, including gender differences in assessing appropriateness. The study is based on in-depth interviews with fifteen participants representing different gender, cultural and age groups. The interviewees include six males and nine females, with an age range from 18 to 45 years. The findings emphasize the imp…
Science Journalism in the Arab Region
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute need for science journalism in the Arab region, revealing challenges such as dependence on foreign sources for science news. The scarcity of job opportunities and the low priority given to science in newsrooms have also contributed to this issue. Although European donors have offered training, there is a need for more sustainable platforms to encourage the growth of Arab science journalism
Arab Digital Journalism
Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agencies, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion. Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalis…
The Making of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Faith Brand
This article sheds light on the use of narrative within the realm of political Islam, taking the Muslim Brotherhood as a topical case study. The argument is that the Brotherhood media served as a faith brand that was based on a narrative aimed at mobilizing voters and supporters, both within Egypt and regionally. The article questions whether the Brotherhood media represent a coherent voice of the movement, and how the media have helped sustain, …
Routledge Handbook on Arab Media
Routledge Handbook on Arab Media Edited by Noureddine Miladi and Noha Mellor This Handbook provides the first comprehensive reference book in English about the development of mass and social media in all Arab countries. Capturing the historical as well as current developments in the media scene, this collection maps the role of media in social and political movements. Contributors include specialists in the field from North America, Europe, and t…
Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood
In the wake of the January 25 revolution, and the coup that followed in 2013, Egyptian bookstores recorded a significant increase in demand for books by and about the Muslim Brotherhood. However, despite the burgeoning literature on the Brotherhood, knowledge about the movement is still rather limited, particularly with regards to its most strategic tool - media and communications. This book offers a fresh and close look into the communication st…
Islamizing the Palestinian–Israeli conflict
The Arab capitulation in the Six Day War was posited to stimulate the so-called Islamic resurgence in the region since the 1970s, which several scholars see as a sign of Islamic resistance to the Western cultural presence within the Arab world. This article argues that Islamizing the conflict began well before the 1967 defeat, and that the hegemony of the Islamist discourse has been made possible owing to its penetration into mainstream political…
Political Islam and Global Media
pt. I. The rise of political Islam -- pt. II. Religious activism -- pt. III. Mediated Islamic practices.
Reporting in the Mena Region
In this consideration of media practice in the Arab region, Mohammad Ayish and Noha Mellor explore the changing status and function of journalists and journalism given the new realities of reporting in the digital age. The authors draw on focus group discussions, interviews, and social media traffic surveys to examine how social and new media have been integrated into Arab and pan-Arab newsroom operations and harnessed to enhance engagement with …
The Two Faces of Media Liberalization
The recent Arab uprisings have called attention to the pivotal role of Arab youth, regarded as the driving force behind the uprisings, and who constitute the majority of population in the Arab regi
Countering cultural hegemony
The article provides a critical review of Arab scholarship on audience studies, focusing on the themes and different traditions adopted by Arab scholars, such as positivism versus cultural studies. Drawing on several examples of audience studies in the Arab world, I argue that this type of research has been influenced by the call to document and counter western cultural hegemony. While the majority of these studies quantitatively measure media co…
Who Represents the Revolutionaries? Examples from the Egyptian Revolution 2011
Recently, there has been a debate among Egyptian intellectuals about who ideally represents the Tahrir (liberation) revolutionaries. This article reflects on this debate with a focus on selected examples of middle-class liberal revolutionaries and their mediated accounts of the so-called Battle of Camel, which took place on 2 February 2011. The examples help illustrate how the mediation and construction of this event enforces the image of protest…
Gender boundaries inside pan-Arab newsrooms
The focus of this article is on Arab women journalists and how they negotiate their position in news and current affairs programmes. The main aim is to illustrate how gender identity can be appropriated and contested. Drawing on a recent piece of field-work among a large sample of Arab men and women journalists in transnational media, I aim to show how women interpret the boundaries inside the newsroom, and their strategies to overcome these boun…
Arab Journalists as Cultural Intermediaries
This article argues that despite the recent increase in the number of publications about Arab news media, little has been revealed about Arab journalism as a professional and social field.This article suggests the incorporation of Bourdieu's notion of “cultural intermediaries” and Zelizer's view of journalists as an “interpretive community” to re-conceptualize the role of Arab journalists, particularly in pan-Arab media. The article also provides…
The Making of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Faith Brand
This article sheds light on the use of narrative within the realm of political Islam, taking the Muslim Brotherhood as a topical case study. The argument is that the Brotherhood media served as a faith brand that was based on a narrative aimed at mobilizing voters and supporters, both within Egypt and regionally. The article questions whether the Brotherhood media represent a coherent voice of the movement, and how the media have helped sustain, …
Strategies for Autonomy
This article aims at unraveling the views of Arab journalists towards their profession particularly during the second half of the twentieth century through examining the memoirs of a sample of veteran journalists primarily from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Thus, the article acknowledges the role of journalists particularly in the so-called developing world as cultural producers and cultural intermediaries. The analysis shows how these memoirs includ…
Hearts of Steel
This article looks at the way Arab male and female journalists in pan-Arab media negotiate their journalistic ethics with the aim of boosting their professional image while adding credibility to their news. Drawing on several examples of these male and female journalists, I seek to show how women adopt an un-emotional style when reporting news of pain and suffering, while male journalists emotionally engage with this type of news. The analysis dr…
A Collective Diasporic Power
This article looks closely at the issue of unionization among a sample of Arab journalists working in transnational media. Although divided geographically, these media share the same trait of addressing Arab audiences all over the Arab region and indeed the whole world. The main question addressed in this article is how those journalists perceive the role of unions and whether there are differences among those who work in Europe, particularly Lon…
Science Journalism in the Arab Region
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute need for science journalism in the Arab region, revealing challenges such as dependence on foreign sources for science news. The scarcity of job opportunities and the low priority given to science in newsrooms have also contributed to this issue. Although European donors have offered training, there is a need for more sustainable platforms to encourage the growth of Arab science journalism
Islamizing the Palestinian–Israeli conflict
The Arab capitulation in the Six Day War was posited to stimulate the so-called Islamic resurgence in the region since the 1970s, which several scholars see as a sign of Islamic resistance to the Western cultural presence within the Arab world. This article argues that Islamizing the conflict began well before the 1967 defeat, and that the hegemony of the Islamist discourse has been made possible owing to its penetration into mainstream political…
The Two Faces of Media Liberalization
The recent Arab uprisings have called attention to the pivotal role of Arab youth, regarded as the driving force behind the uprisings, and who constitute the majority of population in the Arab regi
Countering cultural hegemony
The article provides a critical review of Arab scholarship on audience studies, focusing on the themes and different traditions adopted by Arab scholars, such as positivism versus cultural studies. Drawing on several examples of audience studies in the Arab world, I argue that this type of research has been influenced by the call to document and counter western cultural hegemony. While the majority of these studies quantitatively measure media co…
Who Represents the Revolutionaries? Examples from the Egyptian Revolution 2011
Recently, there has been a debate among Egyptian intellectuals about who ideally represents the Tahrir (liberation) revolutionaries. This article reflects on this debate with a focus on selected examples of middle-class liberal revolutionaries and their mediated accounts of the so-called Battle of Camel, which took place on 2 February 2011. The examples help illustrate how the mediation and construction of this event enforces the image of protest…
Gender boundaries inside pan-Arab newsrooms
The focus of this article is on Arab women journalists and how they negotiate their position in news and current affairs programmes. The main aim is to illustrate how gender identity can be appropriated and contested. Drawing on a recent piece of field-work among a large sample of Arab men and women journalists in transnational media, I aim to show how women interpret the boundaries inside the newsroom, and their strategies to overcome these boun…
My Eyes Were There’
The aim of this article is to analyse a sample of war reporters’ testimonies in Iraq, as cultural memories rather than journalistic practices. Although journalists here may reflect on their professional practice, their primary aim in publishing these memories is to establish an authoritative narrative about Iraq as a conflict zone. The article adopts a comparative method to juxtapose four testimonies about the Iraq War by two European and two Ara…
The culture of witnessing
Building on Zelizer's framework of analyzing journalism and memory, this article aims to analyze Arab journalists' narratives of the Iraq War. Through scrutinizing four selected narratives, published by four pan-Arab journalists from three different transnational satellite channels (Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera and Al Manar), I aim to show how their narratives help consolidate the professional status of pan-Arab journalists vis-à-vis local and wester…
More than a Parrot The Case of Saudi Women Journalists
This article closely examines the status of female Saudi journalists and the development of their professional role that began in women's magazines, and now is more pronounced on satellite TV channels. The article discusses this development in light of the notion of empowerment, which is loosely defined as a process of change. Despite the abundant opportunities for female Saudi journalists, particularly those working as TV presenters, their prese…
Modern Arab Journalism
The book offers a new outlook in studying Arab news media. It compares Arab and Anglo-American journalistic practices and reviews journalism education in Arab universities. The book opens up a new research agenda and challenges the concepts taken for granted in Arab media scholarship such as the impact of globalisation, role of Arab media in the public sphere as well as reviews Arab scholars' work
Modern Arab Journalism
Modern Arab Journalism offers a new outlook in studying Arab news media. It approaches its subject from an innovative angle, asking a series of key questions:How is Arab journalism different from or similar to journalism in other countries?What defines the tasks of journalists? Who has access to this field? How is power distributed inside the field of Arab journalism? When were the media programs launched at Arab universities and what characteriz…
Arab Journalists as Cultural Intermediaries
This article argues that despite the recent increase in the number of publications about Arab news media, little has been revealed about Arab journalism as a professional and social field.This article suggests the incorporation of Bourdieu's notion of “cultural intermediaries” and Zelizer's view of journalists as an “interpretive community” to re-conceptualize the role of Arab journalists, particularly in pan-Arab media. The article also provides…
War as a Moral Discourse
The debate surrounding the coverage of the Iraq War in Arab and western news media has pinpointed the ethical role of the news media in the mediation of suffering. This article analyses the mechanism of mediating war in the front-page articles from four pan-Arab newspapers, printed during the war in 2003. The article draws on Boltanski's discussion of emotional politics or what he terms politics of pity, the aim of which is to trigger sympathy fo…
Politics of mitigation
News texts about war are clear manifestations of moral meanings, and the analysis of these texts usually centers on the ideal of neutral and fair representation of the war operations without undermining the audience's pity towards the victims of such violence. One aim of this article is to show through a concrete example how war correspondents bridge their moral task as eyewitnesses to disasters and calamities with their professional duty as obje…
Strategies for Autonomy
This article aims at unraveling the views of Arab journalists towards their profession particularly during the second half of the twentieth century through examining the memoirs of a sample of veteran journalists primarily from Egypt, Lebanon and Syria. Thus, the article acknowledges the role of journalists particularly in the so-called developing world as cultural producers and cultural intermediaries. The analysis shows how these memoirs includ…
Assessing the role of Arab women in the media sector
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More than a Parrot The Case of Saudi Women Journalists
This article closely examines the status of female Saudi journalists and the development of their professional role that began in women's magazines, and now is more pronounced on satellite TV channels. The article discusses this development in light of the notion of empowerment, which is loosely defined as a process of change. Despite the abundant opportunities for female Saudi journalists, particularly those working as TV presenters, their prese…
A Collective Diasporic Power
This article looks closely at the issue of unionization among a sample of Arab journalists working in transnational media. Although divided geographically, these media share the same trait of addressing Arab audiences all over the Arab region and indeed the whole world. The main question addressed in this article is how those journalists perceive the role of unions and whether there are differences among those who work in Europe, particularly Lon…
Hearts of Steel
This article looks at the way Arab male and female journalists in pan-Arab media negotiate their journalistic ethics with the aim of boosting their professional image while adding credibility to their news. Drawing on several examples of these male and female journalists, I seek to show how women adopt an un-emotional style when reporting news of pain and suffering, while male journalists emotionally engage with this type of news. The analysis dr…
My Eyes Were There’
The aim of this article is to analyse a sample of war reporters’ testimonies in Iraq, as cultural memories rather than journalistic practices. Although journalists here may reflect on their professional practice, their primary aim in publishing these memories is to establish an authoritative narrative about Iraq as a conflict zone. The article adopts a comparative method to juxtapose four testimonies about the Iraq War by two European and two Ara…
The culture of witnessing
Building on Zelizer's framework of analyzing journalism and memory, this article aims to analyze Arab journalists' narratives of the Iraq War. Through scrutinizing four selected narratives, published by four pan-Arab journalists from three different transnational satellite channels (Abu Dhabi TV, Al Jazeera and Al Manar), I aim to show how their narratives help consolidate the professional status of pan-Arab journalists vis-à-vis local and wester…
Countering cultural hegemony
The article provides a critical review of Arab scholarship on audience studies, focusing on the themes and different traditions adopted by Arab scholars, such as positivism versus cultural studies. Drawing on several examples of audience studies in the Arab world, I argue that this type of research has been influenced by the call to document and counter western cultural hegemony. While the majority of these studies quantitatively measure media co…
Who Represents the Revolutionaries? Examples from the Egyptian Revolution 2011
Recently, there has been a debate among Egyptian intellectuals about who ideally represents the Tahrir (liberation) revolutionaries. This article reflects on this debate with a focus on selected examples of middle-class liberal revolutionaries and their mediated accounts of the so-called Battle of Camel, which took place on 2 February 2011. The examples help illustrate how the mediation and construction of this event enforces the image of protest…
Gender boundaries inside pan-Arab newsrooms
The focus of this article is on Arab women journalists and how they negotiate their position in news and current affairs programmes. The main aim is to illustrate how gender identity can be appropriated and contested. Drawing on a recent piece of field-work among a large sample of Arab men and women journalists in transnational media, I aim to show how women interpret the boundaries inside the newsroom, and their strategies to overcome these boun…
The Two Faces of Media Liberalization
The recent Arab uprisings have called attention to the pivotal role of Arab youth, regarded as the driving force behind the uprisings, and who constitute the majority of population in the Arab regi
Reporting in the Mena Region
In this consideration of media practice in the Arab region, Mohammad Ayish and Noha Mellor explore the changing status and function of journalists and journalism given the new realities of reporting in the digital age. The authors draw on focus group discussions, interviews, and social media traffic surveys to examine how social and new media have been integrated into Arab and pan-Arab newsroom operations and harnessed to enhance engagement with …
Political Islam and Global Media
pt. I. The rise of political Islam -- pt. II. Religious activism -- pt. III. Mediated Islamic practices.
Voice of the Muslim Brotherhood
In the wake of the January 25 revolution, and the coup that followed in 2013, Egyptian bookstores recorded a significant increase in demand for books by and about the Muslim Brotherhood. However, despite the burgeoning literature on the Brotherhood, knowledge about the movement is still rather limited, particularly with regards to its most strategic tool - media and communications. This book offers a fresh and close look into the communication st…
Islamizing the Palestinian–Israeli conflict
The Arab capitulation in the Six Day War was posited to stimulate the so-called Islamic resurgence in the region since the 1970s, which several scholars see as a sign of Islamic resistance to the Western cultural presence within the Arab world. This article argues that Islamizing the conflict began well before the 1967 defeat, and that the hegemony of the Islamist discourse has been made possible owing to its penetration into mainstream political…
Routledge Handbook on Arab Media
Routledge Handbook on Arab Media Edited by Noureddine Miladi and Noha Mellor This Handbook provides the first comprehensive reference book in English about the development of mass and social media in all Arab countries. Capturing the historical as well as current developments in the media scene, this collection maps the role of media in social and political movements. Contributors include specialists in the field from North America, Europe, and t…
The Making of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Faith Brand
This article sheds light on the use of narrative within the realm of political Islam, taking the Muslim Brotherhood as a topical case study. The argument is that the Brotherhood media served as a faith brand that was based on a narrative aimed at mobilizing voters and supporters, both within Egypt and regionally. The article questions whether the Brotherhood media represent a coherent voice of the movement, and how the media have helped sustain, …
Arab Digital Journalism
Responding to urgent calls to de-westernise Media and Journalism Studies and shed light on local agencies, this book examines digital journalistic practices in the Arab region, exploring how Arab journalists understand their roles and how digital technologies in Arab newsrooms are used to influence public opinion. Drawing on dozens of articles penned by Arab media professionals and scholars, supplemented with informal conversations with journalis…
Science Journalism in the Arab Region
The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the acute need for science journalism in the Arab region, revealing challenges such as dependence on foreign sources for science news. The scarcity of job opportunities and the low priority given to science in newsrooms have also contributed to this issue. Although European donors have offered training, there is a need for more sustainable platforms to encourage the growth of Arab science journalism
Exploring uses and gratifications of podcasts among young arab audiences
This study analyzes podcast consumption patterns among young audiences in the United Arab Emirates, exploring the motivations and engagement of Emirati youth with this burgeoning media form. Utilizing a survey of 400 young participants, this research examines the various gratifications of podcasts, including entertainment, information acquisition, and community interaction. It assesses the use and impact of podcasts across different genres. The f…
Political science (30 obras) · Sociology (27 obras) · Media studies (25 obras) · Law (21 obras) · Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts (16 obras) · Law (15 obras) · Politics (15 obras) · History (14 obras) · Journalism (14 obras) · Socioeconomic Development in MENA (11 obras)