Contemporary Case Studies
The SOM student research team is exploring how secularism is portrayed through news sources in nine countries: Algeria, Belgium, France, Lebanon, Morocco, Québec/Canada, Senegal, Switzerland, and Tunisia. Here we share case study reports on different contemporary controversies related to secularism.
Lebanon
Our first case study is based on a 2023 debate in Lebanon and takes up one French-language daily newspaper with coding in French, and two Arabic-language daily newspapers, with coding translated into English.
On the 2023 Time-Change Controversy:
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Report and coding on Al-Akhbar and An-Nahar by Zeina Al Attar.
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Report and coding on L’Orient-Le Jour by Romain Crouton coming soon.
Switzerland
We will share our work on a 2016 hand-shaking controversy here soon.