Mahmoud Eid

University of Ottawa · Department of Communication

Terroredia is a newly coined term by the editor, Dr. Mahmoud Eid, to explain the phenomenal, yet under-researched relationship between terrorists and media professionals in which acts of terrorism and media coverage are exchanged, influenced, and fueled by one another. Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The Age of Terroredia provides a...

Addressing the specific contexts of communal leadership, educational policy, inter-communal relations, legal reform, media production, public discourse, public opinion, and responses to government policy, this volume examines Western-Muslim relations and makes proposals for enhancing Self-Other interaction to improve societal harmony.

Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are of concern among Latin American women, mainly due to the growing prevalence of this disease and the lack of compliance to proper breast cancer screening and treatment. Focusing on Venezuelan women and the challenges and barriers that interact with their health communication, this paper looks into issu...

The prevalence of breast cancer in Venezuela is particularly alarming, which is attributed to healthcare inequalities, low health literacy, and lagging compliance with prevention methods (i.e., screening and mammography). While the right to health is acknowledged by the Venezuelan constitution, activism beyond governmental confines is required to i...

L’une des facultés les plus uniques aux êtres humains tient dans leur possession d’un large éventail de moyens qui leur permettent d’interagir. Bien que la communication dans le contexte contemporain soit habituellement entendue en rapport avec ses moyens technologiques, il est important de reconnaître la diversité des éléments qui s’étendent au-de...

Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and widespread new media and information technologies as well as modern tactics of terrorism make the public of any nation in exposure, directly and indirectly, to uncertain potential acts of terrorism. The relationship between terrorists and media personnel h...

Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are of concern among Latin American women, mainly due to the growing prevalence of this disease and the lack of compliance to proper breast cancer screening and treatment. Focusing on Venezuelan women and the challenges and barriers that interact with their health communication, this paper looks into issu...

An action-research project was implemented in Venezuela from 2009-2013 to empower social activists and patients in their fight against breast cancer (BC). The project was implemented in a context of high political and social polarization of the so-called «Bolivarian revolution». Based on an ecological perspective of health activism and communicatio...

The prevalence of breast cancer in Venezuela is particularly alarming, which is attributed to healthcare inequalities, low health literacy, and lagging compliance with prevention methods (i.e., screening and mammography). While the right to health is acknowledged by the Venezuelan constitution, activism beyond governmental confines is required to i...

Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for...

The media's dual role during times of terrorism can be as useful as the most effective security and political counterterrorism measures and can be as harmful as exacerbating terrorist events to the worst humanitarian disasters. Media decision-making processes, therefore, are integral to achieving more desired outcomes. This chapter questions the ef...

New terrorism has been recently considered a new type of terrorism. The terrorism characteristics that have instigated the introduction of the term stem from the modern evolutions in most aspects of terrorism, such as its organizational structure, financing, recruitment, training, motivations, tactics, reach, targets, and lethality. This chapter re...

People all over the globe have become very familiar with the term terrorism due to its common and worldwide occurrence. Terrorism has been committed by states, governments, organizations, groups, and individuals throughout its long history. Despite the large number of definitions by governments, global institutions, academics, politicians, security...

Due to the rapidly changing norms and constant developments in technology, media and communication educators and practitioners are expected to (re)evaluate the functioning of ethics and reasoning in this field. This chapter discusses the relationship between ethics, reasoning, and the media, and the integral role of ethical reasoning education for...

Canadian demographic trends indicate that the number of religious adherents from various faith groups is on the rise. Despite successful integration of some religions into mainstream Canadian society, discrimination against some faith groups persists. Christianity is the dominant religion in Canada, the minorities being Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hi...

The Other is not inherently alien to the Self, but is often imagined as such. Whereas Western and Muslim societies have had intermittent clashes for over a millennium, there is overwhelming evidence of them engaging productively with each other for most of this time. However, this knowledge is overshadowed by the dominant discourses that accentuate...

The relationship of “Judeo-Christian” and Muslim civilizations is like that of amnesic siblings: both have trouble remembering the Self’s kinship with the Other. Memories of their shared Abrahamic parentage appear to be lost in a foggy haze; yet, they persist in an old sibling rivalry. Ironically, each imagines the Other to be alien in values, even...

In today’s world we rely heavily on the media for knowledge and information about people, cultures, and actions around the globe.1 However, most often we fail to acknowledge the media’s influence and become desensitized to their tendencies of stereotyping and framing. The conceptual media frames structure public perceptions in society (Gofman, 1974...

Due to the contemporary social and political climate in the world, it is more important than ever to acknowledge and investigate both Eastern and Western contributions to civilization. This may allow for the creation of insight and enlightenment that can instigate building bridges of appreciation and understanding among people of various cultures a...

Conflict is endemic in human interaction, but it is not inevitable. Some clashes tend to result from the placing of relationships within a zero-sum framework in which the Self sees itself as losing when the Other makes a gain, and vice versa. When opposing parties view each other as a danger they feed on mutually induced fears and produce a rising...

The multicultural nature of some Western societies allows people the opportunity to interact and connect with cultures from around the world. Thus, it is possible for them to learn about different ways of life and become increasingly aware of the immense diversity that characterizes their nations’ identities. While cultural mixing is celebrated, it...

Terrorism and the media have a unique relationship that has been long evident in history and academia. Due to modern advancements in communication and information technologies, the relationship has grown strong and widely influential. Mutual interaction, dependency, and inseparability have characterized the co-existence of terrorists and media pers...

The media have a unique power in any political system. This power stems both from their role as key sources of information about cultures, people, and events on a regular basis and their multiple functions in politics. As studies of media effects have demonstrated, the media wield an enormous influence on the audiences' attitudes, opinions, and beh...

The United States experienced a core-shaking tumble from their pedestal of superpower at the beginning of the 21st century, facing three intertwined crises which revealed a need for change: the financial system collapse, lack of proper healthcare and government turmoil, and growing impatience with the War on Terror. This paper explores the American...

Social network sites are increasingly playing a large role in politics. This chapter examines the ways in which Canadian Members of Parliament (CMPs) use Facebook as a communication tool, through the lens of Mill's (1867) liberal utilitarianism, Habermas' (1962/1989) public sphere theory, Castells' (1996) network theory, and Lievrouw's (2002) socia...

The clash of ignorance thesis presents a critique of the clash of civilizations theory. It challenges the assumptions that civilizations are monolithic entities that do not interact and that the Self and the Other are always opposed to each other. Despite some significantly different values and clashes between Western and Muslim civilizations, they...

Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern tactic, cyber-terrorism, which has become most effective in achieving terrorist goals. Among the countless cyber-terrorist cases and scenarios of only this last decade, the...

The coverage of Muslim women in Western media has long been using Orientalist stereotypes and portrayals of Muslims as outsiders. Even though racist stereotypes exist in Canada, Canadian legislation and the media are attempting to portray an idealistic form of multiculturalism. Recently, Canadian mainstream media have refrained from stereotypical r...

There has been extensive literature on the strong political, economic, and cultural ties between the US and Canada. Foreign policy is a delicate issue between the two nations, whereby a central raised question pertains to whether Canada should parallel American foreign policies or create its own. This, however, augments into a situation that highli...

Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern tactic, cyber-terrorism, which has become most effective in achieving terrorist goals. Among the countless cyber-terrorist cases and scenarios of only this last decade, the...

Globalisation has increased our awareness of crises and their impact on our lives. It is, therefore, more important than ever for governments to respond to crises and to communicate with target groups and the public at large. This article examines the theoretical bases of decision-making in organisations to consider the requirements of an effective...

This paper uses the political economy of communication approach to understand and analyze the structure, policy, operations, control, and efficiency of a unique and major Canadian multi-media conglomerate example - CanWest Global Communications Corp. - in the dawn of the twenty first century. It relates the analysis to a range of criteria such as:...

The informative function of mass media during international political crises becomes much more dangerous than in other times. The media cany out the crucial duty of providing political leaders with a great deal of the information on which decisions are somewhat based, while at the same time receiving information from the government and supplying in...

Perhaps no region on earth has been as affected by the dramatic pace and extent of media development since 1990 as North America, where most have ready access to new media, such as the Internet and the latest telecommunications devices, as well as the traditional newspapers, radio and television. Even traditional media have undergone profound chang...

Paul Lazarsfeld began his career as a European mathematician and later became a prominent American sociologist with a passion for social, psychological, and political research. Working at the center of a wide intellectual network, this innovative methodologist, creative intellectual, and eminent philosopher opened new research fields, including the...

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Carleton University, 2004. Includes bibliographical references.