Abstract
Western media is creating the notion of Islamophobia among world at large. Islam and Muslims are related with radicalism and violence. In view of Ban on veil in France 2004 , the pictorial representation of French Muslim veiled women by western press which considered to be objective , free and independent is studied .The present Qualitative study applied semiotic analysis on seven pictures of French Muslim veiled women in The Economist and eleven pictures in The US Time from year 2004-2010. The results revealed that The American press is presenting French Muslim veiled women in more neutral way as compared to the British press as far as pictorial representation is considered. The study conclude that British media is framing the French Veiled women as oppressed, conservative ,extremist and c

Hina Malik. (2018) SEMIOTIC ANALYSIS OF FRENCH MUSLIM VEILED WOMEN: A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE ECONOMIST AND THE US TIMES, Epistemology: Journal of Islamic Studies, volume 5, issue 5.
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