Representations of Moroccan Culture in Al Jazeera Documentary

Abstract

This paper is about representations of Moroccan culture in Al Jazeera documentary. It is a
discourse analysis of five documentaries produced and broadcast by Al Jazeera
documentary. The paper is based on theories of framing and orientalism.
The paper tries to discover and explain how Al Jazeera documentary framed the Moroccan
culture and approached it. It also tries to discover the aspects that Al Jazeera documentary
focused on and the themes tackled in the documentaries. The paper goes through concepts
and theories of culture, Moroccan culture, Framing theory, Orientalism, discourse analysis
and analyses the five documentaries that cover almost all aspects of Moroccan culture:
Music, urban life, rural life, architecture, history, folklore, cultural heritage, society,
cultural diversity, and civilizations.
Keywords: Moroccan culture, culture, Al Jazeera documentary.