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Sudanese Media Ecosystem
Internews (2025), 44 pp.
"Based on qualitative and quantitative research conducted between May and August 2025, including interviews with journalists, media organisations, policymakers, and civil society activists, the report highlights how Sudan’s media environment has transformed into a “parallel battlefield” where
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Intrastate conflict and transformation of the media system: The case of Afghanistan
Media, War & Conflict (2025), 19 pp.
"This study aims to extend the media system framework to analyse the transformation process of media systems within fragile states that suffer from intrastate conflict. This theoretical goal is achieved through the scrutinization of the transformation of the Afghan media system throughout the Taliba
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"Several UN peacekeeping operations communicate with the populations in their host state through radio, which remains the most popular medium in many countries. UN strategic communications via radio can help reduce violence against civilians, both during and after armed conflict. This protective eff
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Strukturwandel der (massenmedialen) Öffentlichkeit in Afghanistan 2001–2021
In: Afghanistan 2001-2021: Gewaltideologien und ein Hauch von offener Gesellschaft
Bielefeld: transcript Verlag (2024), pp. 193-206
"Afghanistan als Ganzes wurde von mehreren sich gegenseitig bedingenden Phänomenen geprägt: Einerseits gab es sozialen Wandel und Demokratisierung, andererseits führte die starke Liberalisierung des Medienmarktes zu einer fragmentierten ethnischen Gruppenöffentlichkeit, die die Fragilität der s
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Journalism in the Grey Zone: Pluralism and Media Capture in Lebanon and Tunisia
Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press (2023), ix, 228 pp.
"Lebanon and Tunisia are two of the freest countries in the Middle East and North Africa, but elites in both countries seek to manipulate media organisations and individual journalists to shore up support for themselves and attack opponents. This book explores the political role of journalism in the
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Media and the war in Ukraine
New York: Peter Lang (2023), xii, 238 pp.
"This volume aims to deepen understanding of the dynamic intersections of war and media in the rapidly transforming media ecology and the reordered geopolitical context. The volume examines the ways in which the digital media and communication environment is involved in and shape the war in Ukraine.
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Why intervention in Afghan media failed to provide support for peace talks
Frontiers in Communication, volume 8, issue 1118776 (2023), 11 pp.
"This article presents and discusses data from two research methods on journalism in Afghanistan before the Taliban takeover of power in August 2021. News reports from the time of the intra-Afghan peace talks in September 2020 were analyzed using the Peace Journalism model. These were found to be pr
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Terrorism and the Performance of Journalists in Balochistan
Journal of Business and Social Review in Emerging Economies, volume 8, issue 2 (2022), pp. 459-468
"Freedom of speech and freedom of the press is generally attributed to an independent society where the basic rights of citizens are ensured. Balochistan, the western and resources rich province of Pakistan with its huge geopolitical importance has been under a strong wave of terrorism for the last
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Chad's Transition: Easing Tensions Online
N'Djamena; Brussels: International Crisis Group (2022), 22 pp.
"Following years of government shutdowns, social media has become both freer and more influential in Chadian politics – particularly since the country entered a political transition with the death of President Idriss Déby in April 2021. While it has democratised political participation, social me
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Influencing factors of ‘local’ conflict journalism and implications for media development: A critical appraisal
Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies, volume 11, issue 2 (2022), pp. 189-209
"When conflicts emerge the media often become, intended or not, a key actor. It is through media that every party within a conflict attempts to convey its own narrative, contributing to a complex reality that affects journalists’ work in many different ways. This article aims to reflect on Bläsi
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Sudan’s Brief, Fragile Reform Window (2019–2021)
Washington, DC: Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) (2022), 32 pp.
"We find that there is a will for reform from the civilian part of the government, the international community, independent media professionals, and a handful of Sudanese CSOs. However, pushing for a free media is a low priority for most of the population, who have more urgent survival and security
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Beyond Reporting: Media Agency in Transitional Justice Processes
Janus.net: E-Journal of International Relations, volume 11, issue 2 (2021), pp. 149-162
"Despite the significant impact of the media in transitional justice processes, this relationship remains underexplored. The role of the media in building narratives of conflict and past human rights violations was traditionally framed within the dichotomy of promoting peace vs inflicting war. Yet,
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Information Interventions and Social Media
Internet Policy Review, volume 10, issue 2 (2021), 25 pp.
"[...] While mass media, including TV or radio, have long been recognised as a key actor in the escalation of violent conflicts, the scale of dissemination and the degree of accountability of digital actors involved is different. Although the doctrine of information intervention initially evolved to
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Security challenges for journalists and the mass media in advancing free speech in war torn countries: The case of Afghanistan
Journal of Islamic Law, volume 16, issue 1 (2020), pp. 59-77
"The challenges faced by journalists and mass media in war torn countries are serious. The same could be said to be the case in Afghanistan. Though freedom of speech and of the mass media are among the on-going struggles of the Afghan people after the fall of the Taliban regime, it is worrying that
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Television and the Afghan Culture Wars
Urbana: University of Illinois Press (2020), 288 pp.
"Fieldwork from across Afghanistan allowed Osman to record the voices of Afghan media producers and people from all sectors of society. In this moving work, Afghans offer their own seldom-heard views on the country's cultural progress and belief systems, their understandings of themselves, and the r
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New Media and Revolution: Resistance and Dissent in Pre-Uprising Syria
Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press (2020), 296 pp.
"Investigating the root causes of the Syrian uprising of 2011, New Media and Revolution shows how acts of online resistance prepared the ground for better-organised street mobilisation. The book interprets the uprising not as the start of Syria’s social mobilisation but as a shift from online to o
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The Role of the Media in Peacebuilding in Yemen
Bonn: Center for Applied Research in Partnership with the Orient (CARPO) (2020), 15 pp.
"The increased political capture of the Yemeni media since 2014 has reinforced diverging political discourses and has contributed to polarization across society and to political fragmentation. Content of newspapers, television and online platforms has further eroded journalistic standards through th
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Syria Audience Research 2018
Free Press Unlimited (2019), 15 pp.
"The findings of this research show that Syrians, regardless of the party in power in the area in which they reside, have a shared definition of independent media. They define it as “unbiased”, “not favouring any side”, and “credible”. Syrian audiences involved in the research emerge as
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Satellite Sectarianisation or Plain Old Partisanship? Inciting Violence in the Arab Mainstream Media
London: LSE Middle East Centre (2019), 23 pp.
"This report assesses widespread claims that pan-Arab satellite news channels are responsible for inciting sectarian violence during the Arab uprisings. Based on an empirical study of how the most popular channels (Al-Jazeera Arabic and Al-Arabiya) and a competitive newcomer (Al-Mayadeen) have frame
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