Reporting Faris Rifai
(Zaman Al Wasl)- As part of an initiative to honor Syrian innovators, a group of Syria students in Egypt honored Doctor Amar al-Mustafa, who obtained the highest award possible for a doctorate in the English language, as the first Syrian refugee in Egypt to obtain a doctorate degree in English.
Ammar al-Mustafa from Karnaz in Hama countryside and a graduate of Aleppo University, crowned his academic achievements by obtaining a doctorate with first class honors degree in his doctorate in English language which a specialization in linguistics and translation from Helwan University.
Al-Mustafa paid for his education, and he managed to succeed in his studies despite the high expenses of living in Egypt and the high tuition fees which exceeded 6000 US Dollars. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, al-Mustafa explained he used to borrow the money for tuition fees and then pay the money back later on. He was also delayed a year as he struggled to provide for his family.
His research is an expanded academic discussion of the media and news language in the foreign and Arabic press during the Arab Spring with a focus on Libya.
Al-Mustafa indicated he wanted to focus on Syria in the research, but his supervisor refused, not for political reasons, but due to the intense coverage of the Libyan war in 2011, the Libyan revolution, NATO intervention, and al-Qaddafi’s escape by international media outlets. As he started his project in 2011, when the Syrian revolution was at its beginnings, his supervisor insisted on choosing Libya.
The research focuses on 67 European and American newspapers and around 40 Arabic newspapers with the aim of understanding how media is used to serve a particular ideology. The research involved critically analyzing the ideological elements in foreign and Arab journalists’ coverage of events in Libya.
The research demonstrates how journalists implemented a language of persuasion to convince readers to take a particular attitude towards the events in Libya. According to al-Mustafa, the research aims at highlighting the general framework for how linguistic elements are used to present different actors negatively or positively according to the newspaper’s ideology.
Al-Mustafa noted that, “news language in foreign and Arab journalism is connected tightly with the institutional politics and ideology of the newspaper or country the journalist publishes in where this ideology is a key factor determining the way news is phrased and transmitted to readers.”
At the ceremony, Dr. Amar thanked Doctor Mona Fouad Attiyah, a professor of linguistics in the faculty of arts in Helwan University and the faculty’s coordinator for higher education, and Nahawat Amin al-Arousi, a professor in linguistics in the same faculty, for their efforts and the support they gave him throughout the research.
The awards ceremony also honored Maysa al-Shamaa, a Syrian business woman and distinguished actor in the field of social work, women’s issues, and the manager of Sham volunteer group. As well as the researcher Souad Mohammad, an international trainer in the field of human development and holding the title of ‘best human development in the Arab world’ for the year 2016.
(Zaman Al Wasl)- As part of an initiative to honor Syrian innovators, a group of Syria students in Egypt honored Doctor Amar al-Mustafa, who obtained the highest award possible for a doctorate in the English language, as the first Syrian refugee in Egypt to obtain a doctorate degree in English.
Ammar al-Mustafa from Karnaz in Hama countryside and a graduate of Aleppo University, crowned his academic achievements by obtaining a doctorate with first class honors degree in his doctorate in English language which a specialization in linguistics and translation from Helwan University.
Al-Mustafa paid for his education, and he managed to succeed in his studies despite the high expenses of living in Egypt and the high tuition fees which exceeded 6000 US Dollars. Speaking to Zaman al-Wasl, al-Mustafa explained he used to borrow the money for tuition fees and then pay the money back later on. He was also delayed a year as he struggled to provide for his family.
His research is an expanded academic discussion of the media and news language in the foreign and Arabic press during the Arab Spring with a focus on Libya.
Al-Mustafa indicated he wanted to focus on Syria in the research, but his supervisor refused, not for political reasons, but due to the intense coverage of the Libyan war in 2011, the Libyan revolution, NATO intervention, and al-Qaddafi’s escape by international media outlets. As he started his project in 2011, when the Syrian revolution was at its beginnings, his supervisor insisted on choosing Libya.
The research focuses on 67 European and American newspapers and around 40 Arabic newspapers with the aim of understanding how media is used to serve a particular ideology. The research involved critically analyzing the ideological elements in foreign and Arab journalists’ coverage of events in Libya.
The research demonstrates how journalists implemented a language of persuasion to convince readers to take a particular attitude towards the events in Libya. According to al-Mustafa, the research aims at highlighting the general framework for how linguistic elements are used to present different actors negatively or positively according to the newspaper’s ideology.
Al-Mustafa noted that, “news language in foreign and Arab journalism is connected tightly with the institutional politics and ideology of the newspaper or country the journalist publishes in where this ideology is a key factor determining the way news is phrased and transmitted to readers.”
At the ceremony, Dr. Amar thanked Doctor Mona Fouad Attiyah, a professor of linguistics in the faculty of arts in Helwan University and the faculty’s coordinator for higher education, and Nahawat Amin al-Arousi, a professor in linguistics in the same faculty, for their efforts and the support they gave him throughout the research.
The awards ceremony also honored Maysa al-Shamaa, a Syrian business woman and distinguished actor in the field of social work, women’s issues, and the manager of Sham volunteer group. As well as the researcher Souad Mohammad, an international trainer in the field of human development and holding the title of ‘best human development in the Arab world’ for the year 2016.
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