Al Jazeera: 25 Years of Living Dangerously
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The rapid ascent of Al Jazeera highlights a profound geopolitical paradox wherein...
Academic Background
PhD
Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand • Media and Communication Studies
Short Biography
Dr. Tarek Cherkaoui has an extensive experience in strategic management, research, and consultancy across international media, tertiary education, and the creative industries throughout the U.K., Qatar, Malaysia, and New Zealand. He is an expert in international media and strategic communications, and holds a Ph.D. in Media and Communication Studies from the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, for which he was awarded the Dean's Award for Excellence in Postgraduate Studies. He has put forward several publications, including The News Media at War: The Clash of Western and Arab Networks in the Middle East (2017) (London: I.B. Tauris). As an academic, strategic communications researcher, and a senior manager within organizations, Dr. Cherkaoui displays excellent interpersonal and communication skills with fluency in four languages – English, French, Arabic, and German.
Total Contribution: 102
Murder in the Consulate: The Khashoggi Affair and the Turkish-Saudi War of Narratives
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The assassination of a prominent journalist transformed into a proxy information warfare...
2020: The Year Ahead
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate Global systemic instability is increasingly driven by the profound disjunction between entrenched...
The ‘Organized Hypocrisy’ of French Foreign Policy: The Military-Media Nexus
Since 2013, France has enhanced its security cooperation with Egypt to unprecedented levels, including the sale of a...
2019: The Year Ahead
This report provides a look ahead at 2019, focusing on what TRT World Research Centre researchers believe will...
Chronicle of a Death Foretold: The Jamal Khashoggi Affair and Turkish-Saudi Relations
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The paper highlights the profound strategic dilemma wherein Saudi Arabia’s aggressive counter-revolutionary...
A New Kind of Information Warfare? Cyber-Conflict and the Gulf Crisis 2010-2017
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The 2017 Gulf Crisis exposes a profound strategic dilemma where middle-power states...
Representation of Politics or Politics of Representation? Patterns of Western Mainstream Media Coverage During Turkey’s 2018 Elections
Strategic Argument and Areas of Debate The persistent media bias within Western democracies reveals a profound strategic contradiction...