Aleph
Volume 10, Numéro 1, Pages 535-548
2023-01-31

Women Converts Through The Ideological Eyes Of The Algerian Media

Authors : Zerrifi Meryem . Djafri Yasmina .

Abstract

Discourse on Muslim women has been criticized in scientific research as being racist, sexist and ideological. Convert women who come from various backgrounds are cases that form a rich area of investigation that have been covered from a narrative perspective in which experiences of convert women are represented through stories telling journey to conversion to Islam. They have not been problematized in relation to the Algerian media discourse; yet, their omnipresence cannot be denied as a Muslim community. This research aims at demonstrating ideologies that are perpetuated along newspapers’ discourse. The presnt study investigates the discursive portrayal of female Muslim converts in this type of discourse following the framework provided by Thomson (1991) .

Keywords

media discourse ; muslim convert women ; Algerian newspapers ; ideologies