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International PhD Scholarship in Changing Images of the Arab World, University of Central Lancashire, UK

Applications are invited for a full-time scholarship available in the School of Journalism, Media & Communication. The scholarship is tenable for up to 3 years for a PhD (via MPhil route) [subject to satisfactory progress] and is open to international applicants only. UK/EU applicants are not eligible to apply. The scholarship will provide £15000 towards the cost of the International tuition fee over 3 years. Political analysts for Al Jazeera have suggested the ‘Dawn of a new Arab century’ (22/2/11). Hilary Clinton has claimed that America is losing the information war to stations such as Al Jazeera and RT (6/3/11).The resilience and determination of Egyptians and other Arab nations to assert a peaceful claim to power and demand democracy challenged the Western notion of the ‘arab exception’ to the desire for democracy and thus more broadly the dominant Orientalist stereotype of the East as irrational, unchanging, emotional and autocratic.
Through a critical discourse analysis approach, this PhD thesis will explore contemporary shifts in representations of the Arab world from the war on terror to the current Arab ‘revolutions’ to consider the ways in which an Orientalist/ ‘exception’ discourse is redrawn, challenged or asserted in western and/or Arab media in 2011. Will changing political realities and the methods of political action through which Arab people attempt to assert agency (Spivak 1988) impact on the Orientalist / ‘exception’ discourse? Should we revisit this agenda to consider the impact of an increasingly globalised consumer market on representation of the Arab world? (Ritzer 2007) The thesis will examine both visual and linguistic discourses. Applicants should have, or expect to receive a qualification equivalent to a high class UK honours degree.

Scholarship Application Deadline: 13 May 2011

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Master’s Scholarships in Journalism at Cardiff University, UK: International Journalism, International Public Relations, Journalism Studies, Political Communications

The Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies welcome applications for the following Scholarships from applicants who have accepted an offer of a place to study for a one-year Masters programme in the following areas: International Journalism, International Public Relations, Journalism Studies, Political Communications. One Scholarship is available in each of the following areas: Cardiff International Journalism Scholarship – £5,000, Cardiff International Public Relations Scholarship – £5,000, Cardiff Journalism Studies Scholarship – £5,000. Cardiff Political Communications Scholarship – £5,000
Eligibility: To be eligible for an award, applicants must:

  • Have been offered, and accepted, a place on a full-time Masters programme for the 2011-2012 academic year;
  • Hold a degree of at least first class, or upper second class honours standard or equivalent to that standard. This requirement may be waived for candidates over 25 years of age with relevant professional experience;
  • Demonstrate oral and written fluency in English by meeting the School’s English language admissions requirement (recorded on your offer of admission letter);
  • Be classified as an overseas student for fees purposes.  It is not possible to be awarded a scholarship in addition to a full award from a separate body.
  • Scholarship Application Deadline: 24 June  2011

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