NPF Cycle Two Fellows and Projects

Al-Amira Samah Saleh: The Concept of the Civil State: Reconstructing the Collective Understanding of the Concepts of Citizenship and Human Rights in the Egyptian Post-Revolution Media

 

Abstract: As the importance of communication means is highlighted in the “societies of observation,” concerned researchers must examine the role of these means in developing people’s awareness and shaping their perception of “concepts and terms,” particularly emerging popular terms such as the “civil state” and its related concepts of “the citizen” and “human rights.” This study examines the images introduced in the popular imaginations, and the role the media plays in shaping them, using several concepts and theories, and eventual scenarios that may represent a new hosting environment.

 

Al-Amira Samah Saleh holds a PhD in Public Opinion and Crises from Cairo University’s Faculty of Mass Communication. She received a postdoctoral scholarship from UNESCO at Westminster University, UK in 2013, in addition to an award from Cairo University for the best MA thesis for 2007-2008. Saleh has published several studies in Egyptian scientific journals and international conferences. Among her latest publications is the book entitled “Media and the Formation of a Sense of Collective Danger: Egyptian Society Crises as a Case Study,” which was published in the series of doctoral theses by the Centre for Arab Unity Studies.