scholarly journals Iranian Women’s Food Writing in Diaspora

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 179-193
Author(s):  
Afsaneh Hojabri
Keyword(s):  
Iranian Women ◽  
The West ◽  
Home Cooking ◽  
Western Media ◽  
Food Writing

Abstract: In light of the recent surge of Iranians’ autobiographies and fictions in the West, this article will examine ‘food writing’ as an emerging genre of diasporic narrative dominated by Iranian women. It will explore the multiple avenues through which these cookbooks/food memoirs seek not only to make accessible the highly sophisticated Persian culinary tradition but also to ameliorate the image of Iran. Such attempts are partly in response to the challenges of exilic life, namely, the stereotypical portrayal of Iranians in the Western media. Three books with strong memoir components will be further discussed in order to demonstrate how the experiences of the 1979 revolution, displacement, and nostalgia for prerevolutionary Iran are interwoven with the presentation of Iranian food and home cooking abroad.Résumé : À la lumière de la vague récente d’autobiographies et de fictions d’Iraniens dans l’ouest cet article examinera “l’écriture culinaire” en tant que genre émergent de récit diasporique dominé par les femmes iraniennes. Il explorera les multiples voies pas lesquelles ces livres de cuisine / mémoires culinaires cherchent non seulement à rendre accessible la tradition culinaire persane très sophistiquée, mais aussi à améliorer l’image de l’Iran. Une telle tentative est une réponse aux défis de la vie en exil, à savoir la représentation stéréotypée des Iraniens dans les médias occidentaux. Trois livres avec de fortes composantes de mémoire seront discutés plus en détail afin de démontrer comment les expériences de la révolution de 1979, le déplacement et la nostalgie de l’Iran pré-révolutionnaire sont entrelacés avec la présentation de la cuisine iranienne et de la cuisine maison à l’étranger.

THE "HYBRID WAR" CONSTRUCTING IN WESTERN MEDIA SPACE. MAIN STAGES AND ACTORS

2020 ◽  
pp. 20-34
Author(s):  
Vladimir S. Tsarik ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Soft Power ◽  
Information Warfare ◽  
The West ◽  
Sequence Of Events ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Media Space ◽  
Hybrid War ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
War Discourse ◽  
Western Media

The article analyzes a process of the ‘hybrid war’ constructing as a political discourse in Western media space at the initial stages of its formation and promotion in 2014. Using the discourse analysis and process-tracing methods, the author detects principal actors involved in the process, reconstructs the sequence of events in the course of establishing and elaborating the ‘hybrid war’ discourse and analyzes transformation of meanings of that discourse proceeding from interests of actors involved into its elaboration. The analysis presented in the article led to the following conclusions: 1) discourse about Russia’s ‘hybrid war’ against the West was formulated in the spring of 2014 for substantiation of Ukrainian narrative on ‘Russian aggression in Ukraine’ and consolidation of the confrontational nature of relations between the West and Russia; 2) at the initial stage of discourse elaboration and dissemination the key role in this process was performed by representatives of non-governmental analytical institutions of the Baltic States, Poland, Ukraine and Great Britain, and in its formalization at the international level – the NATO official representatives and institutions; 3) in conceptual respect the ‘hybrid war’ discourse, combining into a single whole the conventional, irregular and information warfare, facilitated ‘étatisation’ of non-traditional security threats, “militarizing” the “soft power” and criminalizing the conventional ways of inter-state competition.

scholarly journals صورة الإسلام والمسلمين في وسائل الإعلام الغربية(الإعلاموفوبيا)

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 268-330
Author(s):  
د.عثمان محمد دفع الله علي القُرجي
Keyword(s):  
Analytical Approach ◽  
Western Civilization ◽  
Large Role ◽  
The West ◽  
Distorted Image ◽  
The Media ◽  
The Right ◽  
The Military ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Western Media

The relationship between Islam and the West finds that this relationship has witnessed not only short periods of conflict and congestion, but often the military confrontation. Western societies have recently witnessed a wave of racist practices, forms of hostility and discrimination against Islam and Muslims, Under the name (Islamophobia)), , This fear is played by the Western media machine a large role has become the orientation of all strategies and plans to distort the image of Islam and Muslims, which is familiar with the term (al'iielamufubia), we find this research monitors many of what the Western media in the right of Islam and Muslims and the Prophet of Islam, And Muslims in the Western media (al'iielamufubia), and this research is of great importance in order to respond to the falsehoods and accusations that are attached to Islam, and to clarify the distorted image drawn in the West, by the Western media, the researcher followed in this study descriptive analytical approach to analyze issues And the implications of this phenomenon and the results of the work, and the questions of this study: How the influence of the media in shaping the Western consciousness? Who is behind the phenomenon of the media and this negative picture? , And the study has reached the results and the most important: The typical descriptions that are presented to Muslims in general in the Western media are like the adoption of extremism and violence and bloodshed and polygamy and rejection of integration and enemies of Western civilization, and ah Recommendations recommended by the study:, The comprehensive discourse that reaches all people, which stems from the universality of Islam, combines all the meanings of religion and covers all its aspects, does not set aside at the expense of one side, and does not care about without concern, but calls for religion as a whole contemporary discourse linking the original era.

Islam and the West

2012 ◽  
Vol 38 (4-5) ◽  
pp. 477-483 ◽  
Author(s):  
Akeel Bilgrami
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Clash Of Civilizations ◽  
The West ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
The Third ◽  
Third Person ◽  
History Of ◽  
Short Essay ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
Western Media

This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some remarks about the nature of identity and the importance to one's own agency of the distinction between the first and the third person point of view in Muslim self-understanding.

scholarly journals Western Myths about Russian and Chinese Threats

2021 ◽  
pp. 0
Author(s):  
Yury Morozov
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Community ◽  
The Other ◽  
The West ◽  
Modern Media ◽  
The One ◽  
Western Media

The growing geopolitical confrontation between the West, led by the United States on the one hand, and Russia and China on the other, leads to the appearance in the Western media of myths about Russian and Chinese threats to the international community. The article describes what myths are circulating in the modern media and what such publications lead to. At the same time, the article presents facts that expose these myths.

scholarly journals Islamophobia In Western Media: A Study Of American Movies After 9/11

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Umair Chaudhary ◽  
Dr. Abdul Ghani ◽  
Hassan Naseer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Western Media

The present study discussed the feelings and sentiments that unquestionably exist in Western media particularly in U.S films against Islam and Muslims after Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the reaction to them increased the hater against Muslims. Specifically, the assumption that Islam is characteristically fierce or that Muslims have a reopensity for psychological warfare. Since 9/11, explicit people have transformed Islamophobia into an industry. In this study, content analysis of some commercially successful U.S films is being provided that has perpetuated popularized Islamophobia. Specifically, Hollywood films i.e. American Sniper, The Hurt Locker, and The Dictator have been examined. Although the researcher’s analysis fundamentally talks about these movies inside the setting of twenty-first century Islamophobia, Additionally, it will also elaborate how relentless negative stereotypes are being drawn from decades against Muslims by the West with the help of media.

scholarly journals Diskurse von Geopolitik und ‚Neuem Kaltem Krieg‘ – Zur Veränderung medialer Repräsentationen von Russland und ‚dem Osten‘

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Christoph Creutziger ◽  
Paul Reuber
Keyword(s):  
Cold War ◽  
Discourse Theory ◽  
Media Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Media Discourses ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Geopolitical Imaginations ◽  
East West ◽  
Western Media

Abstract. Thirty years after the Cold War, many aspects of the West's self-identification are still shaped by othering ‚the East‘. This geographical identity-building in Western media discourses is indicated by terms like geopolitics and the (New/Second) Cold War. The paper scrutinizes ‚grand‘ narratives behind the appearances of such concepts and observes their continuities, dislocations, and disruptions. Taking a critical geopolitical perspective informed by discourse theory and based on Foucault's conceptualization of the archive, the paper introduces aspects of the transformation of geopolitical imaginations of the East and the West: (1) it reconstructs phases of the rebirth of geopolitics after WW2 until today. (2) It focuses on the changes in the East-West relations after 1990 and shows how the imagination of the ‚cold war‘ disappears from media discourse. (3) Finally, it analyses the revival through rising geopolitical risk-narratives since the crises and wars in Georgia and Ukraine.

Nonfiction Form and the “Truth” about Muslim Women in Iranian Documentary

2015 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 89-111
Author(s):  
Niki Akhavan
Keyword(s):  
Muslim Women ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Women Filmmakers ◽  
Feminist Scholarship ◽  
Iranian Women ◽  
The West ◽  
High Stakes ◽  
Political Implications ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Veil

More than three decades of hostile relations between Iran and the West have meant that images about Iran and Iranian women circulate in a charged political environment. In this geopolitical context, Iranian women filmmakers have often found receptive audiences abroad who turn to documentaries as sites to reveal the truths of contemporary Iran. The enthusiasm for these works, however, also exerts pressures on filmmakers to adhere to familiar narratives about Iran and Iranian women or risk losing their audiences. Focusing on Nahid Sarvestani's Prostitution behind the Veil (2004) and Mahvash Sheikholeslami's Where Do I Belong? (2007), this article examines two tendencies in recent Iranian documentary. The former film exemplifies the prevalent trend of repeating troubling but familiar tropes about Islam and Muslim women, while the latter is an example of attempts to provide a more nuanced picture of Iran's social and political problems. Placing these films in the broader context of the history of nonfiction films in Iran, the article also draws from both feminist scholarship on representations of the Muslim world and longstanding debates within documentary studies to show the high stakes of producing films about Iran and to suggest that documentary works by and about Iranian women should be more rigorously interrogated for their ethical and political implications.

scholarly journals The Spirit of Radio: Hungary 1956, Radio Free Europe, and the Shadow Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
pp. 89-103
Author(s):  
Karl Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
The West ◽  
Radio Stations ◽  
Hungarian Revolution ◽  
Radio Free Europe ◽  
Western Media ◽  
The Revolution

This study explores popular responses to communist rule in Hungary and the role of Western media in the years leading up to the Hungarian Revolution of 1956.  Most scholars to date have focused on the guiding role of the intelligentsia and the influence of Radio Free Europe. While these were indeed necessary ingredients in the revolutionary stew, Brown argues that the roots of the revolution are more complex. Hungarians from all social strata listened to many Western radio stations; as a result, many of them adopted critical and informed perspectives on the propaganda directed at them from both Moscow and Washington. As Hungarians listened in on the West, their discussion of news and politics generated a shadow public sphere, in which Radio Free Europe came to occupy a preeminent role despite its biased and propagandistic tone. The shadow public sphere incubated the postwar dream of an egalitarian and democratic Hungary until open political discourse became possible once more in October 1956.

scholarly journals ISLAM IN THE WEST MEDIA DISTORTION (MEDIA IN CONSTRUCTING ISLAM AS A TERRORIST AND EXTREMIST RELIGION)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ifah Ifah
Keyword(s):  
Public Opinion ◽  
Global Community ◽  
The West ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The Face ◽  
The Media ◽  
Media Reports ◽  
Forms Of Violence ◽  
Negative Concept ◽  
Western Media

Various media reports that directly or indirectly have formed public opinion that accuses Muslims as a whole as accused of all forms of violence and terrorism on the face of the earth accompanied by extremist acts. Some western media are trying to brainwash the global community that where there are Muslims then there are terrorists and where there are terrorists then there is a threat accompanied by extremist acts. This article aims to see how western media are constructing the message that Islam is the religion of terrorists and extremists. The method used is the study of literature. The results show that the Media has a big impact on a person's view of something and using only symbols of Islam, they can be accused of being terrorists. The media constructs messages in the form of writings or images that link terror acts with Muslims. Muslims, in general, are suspected of being part of terrorists, even for small neighborhoods. So it is clearly seen that the media is trying to form a negative concept of Islam as a religion of terrorists and extremists.

“My pain grows as my life dwindles”: Women, poetry, and resisting state violence in Afghanistan

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victoria E. Collins
Keyword(s):  
Status Quo ◽  
State Violence ◽  
Political Life ◽  
The West ◽  
Media Reporting ◽  
The Status ◽  
Women And Girls ◽  
External Intervention ◽  
Western Media

Western media reporting on the post-9/11 Taliban regime in Afghanistan propagated the image of Afghani women as being helpless, voiceless victims in desperate need of external intervention to rescue them from oppression—i.e. the faceless woman dressed in the all-encompassing blue burqa. Contrary to such symbolizing, and drawing on Hayward and Schuilenburg’s (2014) criteria for resistance, this article examines the longevity and endurance of Pashtun poetry as a vehicle of resistance for women and girls in their fight against state-sanctioned patriarchal oppression. Not only does this undermine the broader narrative of helplessness propagated by the West, but it illuminates the agency, resilience, and bravery of women who challenge the status quo and achieve greater participation in public and political life.

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