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    The Guardian and El Watan’s Coverage of October 2023 Gaza Attacks: A Social Semiotic Comparative Study
    (Université Mouloud Mammeri Tizi Ouzou, 2025) Anber Lisa; Khaldi Manal
    The study examined the coverage of the October 2023 Gaza attacks in two ideologically and culturally different newspapers (The Guardian and El Watan) in terms of journalistic framing strategies. The research investigated how media discourse shaped and ordered conflict, focusing on the contribution of ideological, cultural, and geopolitical factors to journalistic representation. Through Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) informed by Michel Foucault‘s Discourse Theory and Stuart Hall‘s encoding/decoding model, the study analyzed verbal as well as visual aspects of the news reports. The analysis was further supported by social actor representation frameworks articulated by Van Leeuween Kress & Van Leeuwen. The findings revealed that El Watan adopted a frame based on anti-colonial discourse, imperial violence, and criticism of Israeli military actions, while largely excluding Israeli voices. Conversely, The Guardian employed a humanitarian frame that emphasized Palestinian suffering, but also incorporated the values of liberal democracy. The results demonstrated that media framing, source choice, language, and imagery differed within and between regions, shaping public perceptions of conflict. This comparison between Western and Arab media contributed to the literature of media studies, communication studies, and conflict journalism by underlining the importance of critical media literacy in understanding the ways in which global events are represented in different social and political contexts.