In a society mostly dominated by man, Saudi women faced many restrictions compared to man as they have legally been barred from doing manythings by themselves or at least without a male guardian. One of these restrictions is car driving, which was supported by the Islamic pronunciation (fatwa) made by the Grand Mufti of Saudi Arabia. Over the last twenty years, there are a lot of struggles recorded by the mass media between the group demanding more rights for Saudi women and the conservative preserving the fundamental of Saudi's culture based on strict Islamic teaching. Hence, this paper examines the way modern standard Arabic online news ofAl-Jazirah (AJ) of Saudi Arabia and BBC Arabic (BBCA) of United Kingdom portrayed the restriction of car driving on Saudi women. This paper aims to analyse the ways that language is exploited in BBCA and AJ to report on struggles around the driving restriction on Saudi women, particularly in the used of modality as one of discourse construction strategy utilised by the news outlets. Therefore, the paper will examine the corpus data consists of online news articles published by BBCA and AJ between 2010 and 2014 using corpus data mining software ‘AntConc 3.1’. The quantitative result of corpus data then will be analysed using a qualitative approach based on the textual-oriented Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) of Fairclough and media discourse of Ruth Wodak.The result shows that the two news outlets have a different way of portraying the restriction of driving on Saudi women according to their political agendas and ideologies. Hence, reveal that the two online news outlets have taken different side around the news discourse of driving restriction on the Saudi women.

Before 2011, protests rarely being reported in Tunisia by international media. However, Tunisia was the first country hit by the so-called 'Arab Spring' which toppled many Arabian dictators including Ben Ali of Tunisia. This study aims to critically examine the naming strategies utilized by two prominent Arabic online news outlets: Al-Jazeera and BBC Arabic in their online news of 2011 Jasmine Revolution (JR). These two well-established news agencies were selected for their international wide coverage. In addition, Al-Jazeera which based in Qatar represents the Arab international media and the 'East', while BBC Arabic represents the 'Western' media. The study employs Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) particularly three-dimensional textual analysis framework Fairclough (1992) and Wodak (2001). The linguistics textual analysis will further enhance with a link to Laclau and Muoffe (1985) Discourse Theory of power struggles for hegemony, aims to reveal the power struggles between the 'in-group' (the government) and the 'out-group' (the antagonists) in discourse construction strategies. Thus, the analysis will compare the naming strategies utilized by Al-Jazeera and BBC Arabic which will disclose the hidden ideologies at the back of online news discourse construction approaches.