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Ethnic Media in the Digital Age, 2018

Global media journal, 2021

For a long time now, the media representations of British Muslims, in particular, are the central... more For a long time now, the media representations of British Muslims, in particular, are the central focus of academic studies. Especially, the terror attacks often receive bias coverage that connects Islam as a faith to such incidents. Notably, the attack on the Manchester arena in May 2017 by an ISIS recruit by the name of Salman Abedi shocked the nation. In the aftermath of the crisis, UK and Western media dominated national and international press coverage. However, little attention was given and received in relation to the coverage provided by British Muslim media by 5Pillars. This article aims to provide a case study of the 5Pillars media coverage of the attack on the Manchester arena in May 2017. Also, it examines the increasing role and impact of ethnic media as a challenger to the mainstream media. Furthermore, it asks significant questions including: Can Muslim media ownership makes their representation better? And is the media really that powerful that it causes harm to the ...

For his entire teaching career from 1973 to 2013, Mark R. Cohen taught at Princeton University. H... more For his entire teaching career from 1973 to 2013, Mark R. Cohen taught at Princeton University. He retired in July 2013, as the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East. During these four decades, he formed a generation of students and scholars, created and gave intellectual direction to two major interdisciplinary programs at Princeton University, and produced an impressive and distinct body of scholarship that shaped the research agenda of Judaeo-Arabic studies worldwide. By its range of topics and by the distinction of its contributors, this volume of essays in his honor, offered by his colleagues and former students, constitutes an appropriate tribute to his achievements. I had the opportunity and privilege to work with Mark during his entire tenure at Princeton University and to observe first hand the quiet determination and devotion with which he realized his own vision of Jewish historical studies. It was he who organized an interdisciplinary Committee for Jewish Studies at Princeton University and served as its chairman from its inception in 1982 to 1995. The appearance of this volume provides a splendid occasion for his colleagues and friends to gratefully acknowledge his indispensable role in the growth of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton, a program that has now grown to one of international renown with a distinguished faculty numbering more than twenty-five people. Without Mark Cohen's perseverance and dedication and vision, this would not have come to be. After the death of S. D. Goitein in 1985, his famous "Geniza Lab," consisting of his notes, translations, transcriptions, photocopies and microfilms of most of the documentary Geniza, was transferred to the National Library in Jerusalem, but a copy of all this material was left in Princeton and formed the nucleus of the Princeton Geniza Project. It was Mark's pioneering vision that gave rise to the Princeton Geniza Project that between 1985 and 2005 made the transcriptions and translations of some 4,000 Geniza documents available online to the scholarly world. This has been a boon for specialists, but even more so for non-specialists unable to read or decipher these sources who could now have reliable access to these valuable and unique documents. In 1985, Mark was one of the first (if not the very first) to realize the potential of the new computer technology for Geniza research, a potential that is now coming to worldwide fruition through the Friedberg Genizah Project. Mark Cohen is an energetic proponent, to use his phrase, of the "Geniza for Islamicists," that is, of its general relevance for all those interested in the social, economic, and cultural history of the Islamic Mediterranean world, and beyond that for scholars of medieval European societies. Beyond its utility to scholars, the driving force for the Geniza project is precisely Mark Cohen's firm conviction concerning the ecumenical relevance of these sources for historians and social scientists. 1 Mamluk petition from an indebted prisoner to the chief Shāfiʿī qāḍī of Cairo 353

Ethnic Media in the Digital Age, 2018

Global media journal, 2021

For a long time now, the media representations of British Muslims, in particular, are the central... more For a long time now, the media representations of British Muslims, in particular, are the central focus of academic studies. Especially, the terror attacks often receive bias coverage that connects Islam as a faith to such incidents. Notably, the attack on the Manchester arena in May 2017 by an ISIS recruit by the name of Salman Abedi shocked the nation. In the aftermath of the crisis, UK and Western media dominated national and international press coverage. However, little attention was given and received in relation to the coverage provided by British Muslim media by 5Pillars. This article aims to provide a case study of the 5Pillars media coverage of the attack on the Manchester arena in May 2017. Also, it examines the increasing role and impact of ethnic media as a challenger to the mainstream media. Furthermore, it asks significant questions including: Can Muslim media ownership makes their representation better? And is the media really that powerful that it causes harm to the ...

For his entire teaching career from 1973 to 2013, Mark R. Cohen taught at Princeton University. H... more For his entire teaching career from 1973 to 2013, Mark R. Cohen taught at Princeton University. He retired in July 2013, as the Khedouri A. Zilkha Professor of Jewish Civilization in the Near East. During these four decades, he formed a generation of students and scholars, created and gave intellectual direction to two major interdisciplinary programs at Princeton University, and produced an impressive and distinct body of scholarship that shaped the research agenda of Judaeo-Arabic studies worldwide. By its range of topics and by the distinction of its contributors, this volume of essays in his honor, offered by his colleagues and former students, constitutes an appropriate tribute to his achievements. I had the opportunity and privilege to work with Mark during his entire tenure at Princeton University and to observe first hand the quiet determination and devotion with which he realized his own vision of Jewish historical studies. It was he who organized an interdisciplinary Committee for Jewish Studies at Princeton University and served as its chairman from its inception in 1982 to 1995. The appearance of this volume provides a splendid occasion for his colleagues and friends to gratefully acknowledge his indispensable role in the growth of the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton, a program that has now grown to one of international renown with a distinguished faculty numbering more than twenty-five people. Without Mark Cohen's perseverance and dedication and vision, this would not have come to be. After the death of S. D. Goitein in 1985, his famous "Geniza Lab," consisting of his notes, translations, transcriptions, photocopies and microfilms of most of the documentary Geniza, was transferred to the National Library in Jerusalem, but a copy of all this material was left in Princeton and formed the nucleus of the Princeton Geniza Project. It was Mark's pioneering vision that gave rise to the Princeton Geniza Project that between 1985 and 2005 made the transcriptions and translations of some 4,000 Geniza documents available online to the scholarly world. This has been a boon for specialists, but even more so for non-specialists unable to read or decipher these sources who could now have reliable access to these valuable and unique documents. In 1985, Mark was one of the first (if not the very first) to realize the potential of the new computer technology for Geniza research, a potential that is now coming to worldwide fruition through the Friedberg Genizah Project. Mark Cohen is an energetic proponent, to use his phrase, of the "Geniza for Islamicists," that is, of its general relevance for all those interested in the social, economic, and cultural history of the Islamic Mediterranean world, and beyond that for scholars of medieval European societies. Beyond its utility to scholars, the driving force for the Geniza project is precisely Mark Cohen's firm conviction concerning the ecumenical relevance of these sources for historians and social scientists. 1 Mamluk petition from an indebted prisoner to the chief Shāfiʿī qāḍī of Cairo 353