Media from different parts of the world are covering it through different mass media outlets. The main European outlet would be Reuters. The main MENA outlet would be Al-Jazeera. Finally the US has a few outlet reporting on it such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, CNBC, Fox, NPR, as well as…

With only two weeks till the start of the World Cup in Qatar, there is starting to be more and more attention turned towards the host country, and not in regards to soccer. More and more people are starting to become aware of the human rights violations, and the slave like labor that the employees…

If my country were to go through a regime, I would go through several different forms of media to find out what is going on. First I would start by looking at social media, using apps such as twitter and instagram, to get the instant facts about what is happening. Next I would turn to…

Back in October 2021, the Saudi Arabian Public Investment Fund purchased Newcastle United for over 405 million dollars. How is this reputation management you ask? Newcastle United was very average to below average team in the English Premier League, however, other Gulf Country owned teams have done really well in the recent past, giving Newcastle…

I think something that surprised me about this class so far is how much the government controls the public sphere and how so tightly locked down the political systems are across the region. I knew that there was a lot of censorship among different governments but I did not know there was post censorship where…

The newest golf tour to take the world by storm could be a potential front for reputation managment in Saudi Arabia. The LIV Golf Tour is new Saudi Arabian backed league with the intention of competing directly with the PGA Tour. “LIV” does not mean anything, rather it is the Roman numeral for the number…

Although this article is outdated, I looked at an article from The Guardian, about how allegedly, the football organization FIFA was paid off by Qatar’s news station Al-Jazeera. According to the article, In 2010 when the voting for the 2018 and 2022 World Cups were being held, if Qatar received the bid in 2022, Al-Jazeera…

Today I will be focusing on how media effects reputation management in the Middle East and North Africa. Reputation management is a vehicle that countries in the Middle East and North Africa use to distract the public from the atrocities that the government is committing on their citizens. The effects of media have on reputation…

Are nations in the Middle East using sports as reputation management to improve their image in the eyes of Western Countries? Another term for this is sports washing. According to WordSense Dictionary the term sports washing is defined as “The use of sporting events to improve a polity’s reputation, especially to distract from human rights abuses”…