Amoor, Mohammad Nael Ali and Berghout, Abdelaziz (2026) هندسة الرواية وإعادة إنتاجها: انحراف المصلحة الإعلامية في تغطية الحرب على غزة = Narrative engineering and its reproduction: the distortion of media interest in coverage of the war on Gaza. Al-Hikmah International Journal for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences, 9 (3). pp. 156-200. E-ISSN 2637-0581
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Abstract
This study addresses the limitations of the conventional dichotomy between "truth" and "falsehood" in explaining forms of media coverage in which individual pieces of information are accurate, while their source, language, ordering, or timing causes them to perform a communicative function at odds with the media interest presumed to justify their publication. It aims to construct a composite explanation linking the strategic source, linguistic and visual framing, mechanisms of circulation and repetition, and cognitive effects. It further seeks to identify patterns of deviation of editorial interest in coverage of the Israeli war on Gaza between October 2023 and October 2025, as supported by published studies and reports. Finally, it formulates an editorial balance intended to regulate the assessment of "editorial interest" when competing considerations arise. The study adopts an analytical, critical, and synthetic approach that analyses concepts and theoretical models, compares the findings of peer-reviewed studies and institutional documents, and then synthesises them within the concept of "deviation from media interest". Its unit of analysis is discursive practice, understood as a relationship between a claim, its source, frame, context, and effect-rather than as a property of any specific media institution. Accordingly, the study distinguishes between a descriptive level grounded in published findings on international coverage, and an exploratory interpretive level focused on Arab and Palestinian media. The study concludes that narrative engineering operates through an interconnected chain beginning with the strategic source and ending in cognitive effects and collective trust. It identifies four patterns of deviation in international coverage, distinguishes four degrees of editorial distance between attributed transmission and unexamined transmission, between framing adoption and functional amplification, and proposes a four-dimensional editorial balance. This balance is operationalized through an eight-question pre-publication test that converts "editorial interest" from a flexible justification into a process that can be held to account.
| Item Type: | Article (Journal) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Media interest; War on Gaza; Narrative engineering; Wartime public relations; Media framing; Psychological warfare; collective trust |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc |
| Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button): | Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Prof. Dr. Abdelaziz Berghout |
| Date Deposited: | 06 Oct 2026 14:55 |
| Last Update: | 06 Oct 2026 14:55 |
| Queue Number: | 2026-09-Q5442 |
| URI: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/131720 |
| Indexed In: | Google Scholar |
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