Doha: Al Jazeera Center for Studies and the Centre for the Study of the International Relations of the Middle East and North Africa (CIRMENA) at the University of Cambridge have partnered on a media research project titled “Tunisia’s Political Transition and the Developing Role of the Media”.
The research project, which will last for one year (August 2013 – August 2014), will investigate how the role of media is being interpreted and utilised in Tunisia, as the country moves towards an inclusive political culture and system of laws.
The findings of the research project will be presented at two workshops, one in Doha at Al Jazeera Centre of Studies, and another at Cambridge.
Additionally, part of the study expected to be presented as news on Al Jazeera News, as well as formulated into a special Al Jazeera broadcast on media in Tunisia.
This research project will provide a framework for similar projects to take place elsewhere in the region in states undergoing their own experience of a liberated media environment and a newly developing political culture.
It is expected to be the first in a series that could include other countries such as Libya, Iraq, Morocco, Jordan, Egypt, and others, so as to develop a region-wide, yet in-depth study series that offers unique insights on the relationship of media and politics in the current era.
This joint effort is a result of a collaboration agreement between Aljazeera Media Network and University of Cambridge.
CIRMENA acts as a focus for research and study of North Africa and Middle East affairs in the United Kingdom and is affiliated with the Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS) at the University of Cambridge.
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