International Media and the War on Gaza: Modalities of Discourse and the Clash of Narratives

Al Jazeera Centre for Studies, and the Department of Language, Culture and Communication at the College of Humanities and Social Sciences, Hamad Bin Khalifa University, are organising an academic conference titled “International Media and the War on Gaza: Modalities of Discourse and the Clash of Narratives”, set to take place on 29 and 30 November 2025 in Doha. The conference aims to explore the functional semantic mechanisms that reveal the implicit meanings in international media coverage of the war on Gaza. It will examine the markers that demonstrate the perspective of the discourse producers regarding the Palestinian and Israeli identities, as well as their vision and stance toward the war’s developments and its turn toward genocide.

Moreover, the conference also seeks to examine the patterns and characteristics of news models in war coverage, monitor forms of propaganda and falsification of facts aimed at manipulating international public opinion, and analyse the role of Israeli media, international media institutions and networks in fuelling genocide.

Read More

Submission Guidelines:

• Researchers must submit a research proposal within the conference topics, around 500 words, including the research topic, problem statement, objectives, significance, methodology and structure.
• The research must be original, prepared specifically for the conference, not AI-generated, not excerpted from theses, not previously published partially or fully in any print or electronic media, nor presented at any other conferences or submitted to journals.
• The scientific committee will notify authors of accepted proposals to proceed with full paper preparation. Conference participation is only for authors of papers approved by the peer review committee.
• Citations must be Chicago style.
• Conference languages: Arabic and English

Important Dates:

• Deadline for receiving abstracts and research proposals (approximately 500 words, accompanied by the researcher’s CV): 1 July 2025
• Notification of accepted proposals: 10 July 2025
• Deadline for submitting preliminary final papers (6000 to 8000 words including references and footnotes): 1 October 2025.
• Final acceptance notification: 20 October 2025
• Conference dates: 29-30 November 2025

Please send proposals and all related correspondence, including the researcher’s CV, to mediaconference@aljazeera.net