Media Research Project

“The primary objective of the ADC-RI Media Research Project is to research, track, and document anti-Arab and Islamophobic bias in the media, public discourse, and from public officials. This tracking project will serve as a resource tool which will highlight the prevalence of bias and bigotry. The project will expose xenophobia and hatred that target minorities in the U.S., particularly Arab and Muslim Americans.
The project will also celebrate achievements of Arabs and Muslims from around the world.”

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Why Saudi Arabia, Arab League invited Zelenskyy to their summit

Ukraine’s president and Arab nations might not seem like a natural fit, but they both had their reasons for extending and accepting invitation.

by Jasmine Hawamdeh

This article in al-Jazeera discusses how president Volodymyr Zelenskyy of Ukraine has managed to garner support from Saudi Arabia and the Arab League for his efforts in fighting against Russian invasion. While the bulk of Arab countries have remained neutral on the Russian-Ukranian war, Zelenskyy managed to elicit sympathies from Arab audiences. In particular, he made it a point to discuss the plight of the Muslim minority in Russian-occupied Crimea, “seeking to connect his nation’s struggle to wider Islamic sensitivities. The Crimean Peninsula is the ancestral homeland of the Crimean Tatars, a Turkic group of Sunni Muslims. Still, despite using language of “occupation” and “colonisers,” which sit well with audiences in the Global South, Zelenskyy did not go as far as refer to the Israeli occupation of Palestine.

Read the full article here.

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