Wesam Amer

Wesam Amer, M.A., is a DAAD scholar and a doctoral student at the Graduate School Media and Communication. In his PhD thesis he analyses the online newspapers’ coverage of the Middle East Wars.

Wesam Amer (born 1980in Gaza) M.A., studied applied linguistics at Anglia Ruskin University-Cambridge. His MA thesis examines linguistic features, ‘Transitivity selections’, used in the British Press (The Guardian and The Times) to cover the Israeli siege of the Gaza Strip, following Halliday’s Systematic Functional Grammar as a tool in CDA and Critical linguistic generally.

Since May 2011, He is a DAAD scholar and a PhD student at the Graduate School Media and Communication, University of Hamburg. Amer’s doctoral thesis under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos and Prof. Dr. Irene Neverla, provides a systematic discourse analysis of (online) US, British, Israeli and Arab influential newspapers’ coverage of three wars in the Middle East, the American invasion of Iraq in 2003, the Israeli War on Lebanon in 2006 and the Israeli War on Gaza 2008-09, and the ways in which the participants and the events are represented in the newspapers. Critical Discourse analysis and News Frame Analysis examine the linguistic, political and ideological contexts of the newspapers’ discourse on the coverage of three wars in the Middle East.

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His principle research interests lie in the field of language, politics, discourse analysis, communication, media and ideology and their relations with globalization and politics.

His future research plans are to build on the foundations of my MA and PhD to further develop models and tools in analysing the media, political and linguistic discourse and its relation with decision making on globalization and international levels.