Arab Uprising

Mohammed Allaan, the Palestinian prisoner in Israel on hunger strike
Print Media Review Paper (10%)
For this 2-page paper, you will critically reflect on news coverage of a recent event in the Middle East.
The goal of this paper is to delve into news media portrayals of Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners.
The news media is particularly important to examine because it is an influential outlet that is sometimes
recognized as biased, but more often touted as evenhanded and factual. Your assignment is to analyze
the reporting on one specific issue or event that has happened in the Middle East (loosely defined)
recently. I will assign each student a specific event and post these assignments during the second
week of classes. Then, you must find three articles from different news media sources (which
includes newsweekly magazines, newspapers, and their online equivalents) that focus on that event.
Each article you select must be from a different news media source, and only one of the three can be
from an American print news source; the other two must be international news sources. Some good
English language international news sources include: Russia Today, Duetch, South Africa Today, France
24, Al Jazeera English (not Al Jazeera America) and Press TV.
Using the assigned reading from the second and third weeks of classes, as well as our discussions in
class, your paper will critique how the event as well as Arabs, Muslims, and Middle Easterners are
represented in each news source. Use one page to provide a critique of how the event is portrayed in
each article. Do not summarize the event; instead critique the language, tone and ideas that are
communicated in each article. Also state, in your opinion, whether Arabs, Muslims, and Middle
Easterners are portrayed positively, evenhandedly, or negatively in each of your selected news articles.
Geography of the Middle East, Fall 2015
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After you critique each of your three articles separately, write a 1-page summary that compares and
contrasts the three articles.
The paper will be 2 pages in length (double-spaced, times new roman, 12 point font, 1 inch margins all
around) and will be due on Tuesday 9/3 at noon via eCampus Turn-it-in. You are required to
discuss your findings with your team and the entire class on 9/3.

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Assigned one specific event
Find three different articles that report on your chosen
event
Only one US source (though not necessary to have US
source)
2 page paper due on Thurs 9/3 at noon via Turn-it-in
In class discussion on that same day
Print News Critiques
Examine, critique
Language, tone and ideas being communicated – what
politicized words might be used?
What is left out – is some important context missing?
Any images and maps – how do visual representations
convey meaning?