Egyptian Youth's Perception of News Coverage Hostility of Egypt's Role in the Palestinian Issue During Al-Aqsa Flood:

The study aimed to understand the extent of Egyptian youth's perception of the hostility of news coverage concerning Egypt's role in the Palestinian issue after Al-Aqsa Flood. It also explored the role of news sources' affiliations or their bias towards Egypt in perceiving hostility, as well as the factors that either limit or increase the perceived hostility by the youth, in the context of the "Hostile Media Coverage" theory. The study employed a quasi-experimental method and was conducted on a sample of 64 participants. The study relied on a pre-post design and concluded that social media emerged as the primary source of information about the issue for both groups. The perception of hostility towards Egyptian newspapers (Al-Ahram and Al-Shorouk) was low in the experimental group and moderate in the control group, while it was high for both groups regarding the Israeli newspaper. As for the Palestinian newspaper Al-Sabah, the perception of hostile coverage was high in the experimental group and low in the control group. In the case of the Turkish newspaper Zaman, the perception of hostility was high in the experimental group and moderate in the control group. Regarding Rassd Network, the low perception of hostility was predominant in the experimental group, while the moderate perception was predominant in the control group. For Al Jazeera, there was no change in the perception levels between the two groups. A relationship was found between the perception of partial bias in news elements and the perception of overall news bias. Differences were also found among respondents in their perception of hostile news coverage of Egypt's role in the Palestinian issue after the Al-Aqsa Flood before and after their exposure to the news.