This paper focuses on animation programs presented on al-Hijrah television channel. Al-Hijrah is the Islamic television channel in Malaysia. This study is a programs analysis of the target audience and the topic of the animation programs to find out whether al-Hijrah uses animation as a tool for distributing the Islamic message in an attractive format to audience. The main finding is that al-Hijrah allocates animation not only for children but to the general audience too. Animation of al-Hijrah are not only religious programs, they are a combination of religious and life matters.

Muslim communication academicians and writers had been calling for portraying Islam in drama. This call has been answered by some directors and producers who attempted to produce drama about Islam. However, these attempts are facing criticism due to misportrayal of the original characters in the drama produced. The objectives of this study are to identify the main characters of The Message and to test the authenticity of the portrayal of the characters of The Message. The main finding of the study is that the characters of The Message were misportrayed. The misportrayal took place on the psychological dimension of the characters. Some of the Muslim characters were degraded, while some non-Muslim characters were elevated. The misportrayal of the characters lies in their voice tone that shows Muslims as barbaric and hegemonic on the first hand, while on the other hand non-Muslims are portrayed as wise and logical people.

The holly city of Jerusalem is a crucial element that cannot be ignored in the components of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict over the land. Jerusalem is considered the reason for revolutions and uprisings for the Palestinians to end the occupation of their land. Despite this importance, it suffered from a change in the concepts and presence in the agenda of the main Palestinian faction, particularly Fatah. This study uses the agenda-setting theory to examine the political agenda of Fatah through analyzing the news coverage and media discourse of Palestine Satellite Channel. The study is qualitative in nature, as it employed the content analysis method to reach the desired results. The results indicated that the news coverage and highlights of AlQuds/Jerusalem totally stem from the agenda of Fatah. When the faction dropped its armed resistance dogma and adopted the new agenda of negotiations with Israel, the discourse of the faction has changed completely. The results revealed that the basic concept of Jerusalem has become more acceptor of having one capital for two states, which contradicts with the basic beliefs of the Palestinian people. Also, the results showed that the channel emphasized on highlighting secular and nationalistic concepts of the city rather than religious.

This paper identifies four main characteristics of Islamic television programs. They are reality and objectivity, comprehensiveness, moderation and application of Islamic distinctive features. A questionnaire was distributed to the broadcasters of Al-Hijrah Television to determine their perception on the characteristics of applying the aforementioned characteristics to their programs. Programs of Al-Hijrah Television were also observed to further investigate the application of the characteristics to Al-Hijrah Television programs. The main finding of this paper is that despite the satisfaction of Al-Hijrah Television broadcasters, the application of the four characteristics to Islamic television programs does not suffice the need of the audience. It was also found out that drama programs are more effective than traditional programs in delivering the Islamic message despite the rarity of Islamic drama.

This issue brings on the theme of Communication, Media and Its Impact in Times of Crisis which eight of them are selected articles presented at the 2021 International Conference on Islam, Media and Communication (ICIMAC2021) which was held on 10 & 11 July. Another four are submissions made by the individuals who wish to publish with Al-I'lam respectively. The conference was organised by the Communication Program, Faculty of Leadership and Management, Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM). The topics presented in this conference were related to the current situation where the whole world is being affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and during this crisis, communication via proper media is needed as a message delivery channel.

This study seeks to provide a new perspective on credibility and the effect of reliable source in the newsworthy, especially with the increased rates and the critical role of SNSs in providing newsworthy. Further, the study attempts to invistagte the dimessions of credibility among journalists, especially in the midst of critical situations and serious circumestances happened across the world which represent wet materials for such news websites to flowing news stories, editorials and texts. The results of this research contribute to identifying journalists' perceptions of the credibility of social networking sites as a source of information in their work in order to provide an optimal description of the findings. Finally, the results of this research contribute to the literature realated to media in general and wide understanding to the social media practices in palestine in particular. In addition, it tries to reveals suggestions which can overcome the gap of credibility between social networking sites and/or social media disseminated in Palestine.

This study aims to investigate the relationship between communication strategies and their impact on audience engagement and organisational reputation in the specific context of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This study proposed that publicity and public relations affect positively the audience engagement and organizational reputation. The study also proposed audience engagement as a mediating variable. The population of the study included respondents from three states in UAE. Using a questionnaire, a total of 390 responses were collected. The data was analysed using Smart PLS 4. The findings showed that publicity and public relations affected positively the audience engagement and organizational reputation. Audience engagement affected positively the organizational reputation and mediated the effect of publicity and public relations on organizational reputation. This study offers significant contributions to media organizations in the UAE, enhancing communication theory and providing practical guidance. The findings of this study provide a solid basis for future research efforts, taking into account the specific context of the UAE.

Researching on Islam and Muslims-related issues in the media have been a never-ending debate and always have been updated time by time. It catches the attention of academics, scholars, preachers, researchers to discuss on the alternative platform in reducing or somewhat controlling what the media should report about particularly on Islam and Muslims issues. The aim of this study is to examine the reportings related to Islam and Muslims issues of the Western newspapers. Interviews were conducted among eight Malaysian media practitioners to identify how they translate the meaning of work as a journalist in Islamic context, and also to find out their best practices in producing a balanced and fair news reporting. The interviews were later transcribed verbatimly, analyzed and deliberated their experiences towards this issue. Results show that they believe as Muslim journalists, they should be true, trusted and not bias in reporting news. Further, they also find out that having good references from experts and doing some research before reporting on any issues are very important especially in reporting news globally. Thus for them, the adaptation of good journalistic practices represent a positive image of Islam and Muslims in order to continue creating a surrounding of Islam and Muslims at present and in the future.

The main concern of this paper is the Islamic education strategy of Islamic television channels. It identifies the vision, mission and objectives of al-Resalah and al-Hijrah television channels. The first objective of this paper is identify the vision, mission and objectives of al-Resalah and al-Hijrah channels. The second objective is to analyze education programs of the two channels for a week of broadcasting. The method used is qualitative content analysis. Thematic categorization of programs is conducted to find out the Islamic education programs broadcast on both channels. The major outcome of the paper is that the theme of education cannot be achieved throughout a number of programs broadcast on the screen, but it should be a continuous well-planed efforts to achieve the obligation of laid upon Muslims. Islamic education should not be randomly conducted through broadcasting a mixture of programs, but it should be based on a well-planned strategy to guaranty effective impact.

This paper is based on a PhD study of the content of Islamic television broadcasting. Even though there are attempts in the Muslim world to produce Islamic television programs, most of the programs do not comply with Islamic rules either because of some content that includes some scenes that are not Islamic or because of the format that is usually rudimentary and unattractive. This paper focuses on Islamic television programs. It identifies important characteristics of Islamic television content such as reality and objectivity, comprehensiveness, moderation and application of Islamic distinctive features. It also identifies four characteristics of Islamic television programs format; which are artistic production, delivering indirect messages, adapting the message to the audience, and simplicity and frequency.

The idea to embark this study on Islam and Muslim issues is still relevant due to there are many reportings from the Western media especially about Middle East. On that account, the purpose of this study is to find out the solution to encourage more positive reporting about Islam and Muslim issues. Eight Malaysian media practitioners have been interviewed to share their experiences and ideas in finding an answer to formulate a new, fair and balanced guideline to be practiced. All of them were interviewed via face-to-face methods and phone calls. From the interview, the researchers found out the important tips with regards to assisting students, journalists and individuals to become more expert in writing news accurately. The researchers found out how a journalist played the role of an Islamic journalist and anchor the meaning of Islamic journalism. In addition, the results of this study also managed to formulate a guideline in writing reports or news related to Islam and Muslim community to produce a positive image of Islam and the Muslims in the media.

Film is a medium that depicts human activities. It visually portrays ideology and culture as well as empowers knowledge and the understanding of civilisation. The most concern is about the misrepresentation of media content, particularly concerning Islam and Muslims in films. The Message (1977, dir. Moustapha al-Akkad) is one of many made-in–Hollywood films that portray Islam and Muslims livelihood in Mecca during the revelation era of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH), and His migration from Mecca to Madinah. This paper intends to focus on how Islam is being represented in this film and how it portrays Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and his companions. The main question that this paper attempts to answer is: are the actions and incidents of The Message film authentically portrayed? Identification of scenes containing actions and key incidents were done through the lens of content analysis. Based on the analysis of key incidents, findings indicate that the film supports the propaganda against Islam that Islam is a terrorist religion and Muslims are aggressors.

This study aims to discover how Aljazeera and BBC TV channels framed the Rohingya crisis settlements that were spent by national and international bodies. The content analysis was implemented by following mixed method approach. The results were obtained from the qualitative analysis of Aljazeera and BBC news, as well as the statistical quantitative results. The findings showed that news framing is capable of shaping certain attitudes toward incidents. Three main frames were utilized in the news coverage of Aljazeera and BBC: responsibility, human impact, and powerlessness frames. The findings are valuable to news organizations and reporters in framing minority crisis news. It may also assist audiences to critically understand the frames that shaped the crisis settlement news, and thereby enable them to further understand how media frame incidents and conflicts.

In the world of media and communication, the producers of content are major contributors who create issues for an audience to think about. This content is not randomly created, but rather created based on certain agendas. This paper analyzes the content of the Alhijrah channel, a Malaysian Islamic TV. The objective of this study is to discover the prioritized Islamic content broadcast by Alhijrah TV that contributes to shaping the perception of Islam among viewers. To achieve this objective, content analysis, observation and interviews were conducted. The sample of the study was the last broadcasting season of 2020. It was found out that Alhijrah divided its programs into eight genres. The leading genre was a magazine that accounted for 46.56% of the sample, and the leading programs were the programs of the noble Qur'an. Alhijrah resorted to shopping programs that accounted for almost 17% of the Alhijrah content. Alhijrah also broadcast seven live programs that made up 16.71% of its programs. Alhijrah also broadcast limited programs of animation, drama, concert and talk show. This study recommends Islamic television channels and producers of Islamic content to align their agendas with the noble Qur'an to prioritize what Allah SWT prioritized to guide the audience to Allah SWT implementing the methods that He set for us.

This study is concerned with the utilization of television broadcasting in the diffusion of the Islamic message, particularly the experience of al-Resalah and al-Hijrah satellite television channels. The study expresses the intimate connection between the diffusion of the Islamic message, a duty laid upon every Muslim, and television broadcasting. The main question of this research is about the nature of Islamic television programs and Muslim broadcasters' perception of Islamic broadcasting. The objectives of this study are to identify the current operational state of Islamic television channels, to analyze the programs of al-Hijrah and al-Resalah as examples of Islamic television channels, to analyze the Muslim broadcaster's perception of al-Resalah and al-Hijrah and to propose a preliminary model for Islamic television broadcasting. A week broadcasting sample of al- Resalah and al-Hijrah is analyzed to reflect the image of current Islamic television broadcasting. Coding sheets, Microsoft Excel and SPSS were used to discover the frequency of programs for both channels. Also a questionnaire was established and distributed to broadcasters of both al-Resalah and al-Hijrah television channels to determine their perception of Islamic broadcasting. SPSS was used to analyze the central tendency of both al-Resalah and al-Hijrah broadcasters of Islamic broadcasting. The main finding of the research is that most of al-Resalah television programs are traditional unattractive programs. Despite the attempt of al-Hijrah television to broadcast attractive Islamic television programs, most of their drama programs cannot be considered Islamic due to availability of elements that exclude them from being Islamic such as showing parts of human body that should be concealed. This state of programs is mainly because of the lack of Muslim human capital who are well versed with Islam and broadcasting. Despite the big differences between Al-Resalah and al-Hijrah's programs, no major difference between the broadcasters' perception of both channels is detected. This finding indicates the importance of financial capital that supports Islamic television to produce and broadcast high quality and attractive programs. Financially, a major difference between the two channels is discovered because al-Resalah is short of money. Based on the analysis of the samples and broadcasters' perception, the main contribution of the study is a preliminary model for Islamic television broadcasting.

Islamic television programs become a need for Muslim audiences in the post-modern era due to the high speed technology advancement that the world is witnessing. Al-Hijrah television channel is a Malaysian channel that is shouldering the responsibility to distribute the Islamic message to South East Asian Muslims. This paper analyzes the programs of al-Hijrah television. The programs were analyzed based on both frequency and duration. The main finding of this paper is that al-Hijrah is trying to keep away from being traditional religious channel by broadcasting a diversity of programs not only focusing on talk show programs. However, even though some programs are not categorized as talk show; the feature of traditionalism is dominant.

The study aims to identify the role of international relations in combating hate and discrimination crimes. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The study has resulted in many results, the most important of which is that hate and discrimination crimes fall into traditional crimes by their nature, in case it is committed against persons or property. But, it is linked to hatred which is directed against the victim, since the crime is committed because the victim belongs to a particular social group according to race, colour, religion, origin, etc. Therefore, such crimes violate the victim's right according to the nature of the crime, and violate the right of society because they threaten the security and safety of communities. The study results also showed that by passing the Anti-Discrimination and Hate Crimes Act in 2015, the UAE was able to achieve a legislative breakthrough nationwide. The UAE legislator criminalized contempt for religions, atonement, discrimination, sedition and strife, while not being subjected to hate crimes.

The study aims to identify the role of international relations in cuntring the threats facing the Strait of Hormuz to achieve community security. The researcher used the descriptive analytical approach. The study has resulted in many results, the most important of which is that the Strait of Hormuz plays an important role in the international relations due to its specificity in connecting cuntries. As well, there were crisis in navigation abut it and lots of dispute that threaten the security of the community. The study also proved that the Strait of Hormuz represents an important artery due to the transportation of oil thrugh it. Furthermore, in the absence of the mutual coordination and understanding among states of the region; the foreign power will remain in the region to protect their interests. As well, the results refer to the importance of Strait of Hormuz and the disagriment among western cuntries and Riparian developing cuntries that shares the strait. The main reason of the disagriment is the importance of strait of Hormuz in the international life and the desire of western cuntries to achieve security and to control it in order to ensure that oil is delivered to it.

The problems among students in Jordanian universities has increased recently. This research investigates to evaluate the relationship between some marital of movies and Jordanian university students through tow entirely new movie elements which are: Physically abuse and verbal abuse. There are many problems that Jordan is still facing in this reform process and support education and one of them is violence on the campuses. As such, this study intends to conduct a pilot study on two factors in the movies and their impact on the target audience. Data were collected from questionnaires with a total of 30 respondents within Al Zaytoonah Private University (Faculty of Economics and Business) and Yarmouk University (Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences) in Jordan and analyzed by using Reliability test. Findings of study reliability for all variables ranged from 0.90 to 0.909. Future work focuses on hypotheses testing to evaluate the proposed model among financial employees in the Jordanian public sector.

Drama is a form of art that attracts myriad viewers throughout the world. It has four main types: comedy, tragedy, tragicomedy and melodrama. Drama originally is based on different types of contemporary or historical stories. Historical drama is a form of drama that envisions and visualises historical events to send desired messages to audiences. Drama in general and historical drama, in particular, is not merely entertainment-oriented. Rather, drama is value-laden. Currently, Turkish drama is popular in the Middle East. The historical drama of The Revival of Ertuğrul is not only popular in the Middle East, but it reached other Muslim countries such as Pakistan and Malaysia. The Resurrection of Ertuğrul accentuates values among viewers. The objective of this study is to discover the impact of watching historical drama on the values of affiliation and justice among Palestinian university students, and to test the moderating effect of watching rate. This paper is a quantitative study that implements a questionnaire as the instrument for data collection. The study discovered that watching historical drama has a significant impact on the value of affiliation (ß =0.697, t = 21.399, P<.05) and also on justice (ß =0.635, t = 17.775, P<0.05). However, watching rate has no moderating effect on affiliation (ß=0.026, t=0.792, p>0.05) nor on justice (ß=0.040, t=0.912, p>0.05).