Abhinav Aima's Home Page

Abhinav Aima is a Doctoral student at the E. W. Scripps School of Journalism and the Contemporary History Institute at Ohio University 

Research Focus - Influence of American Foreign Policy on American Media Coverage of Islamic Fundamentalism 

Some of my research work is provided below: 
 

Lebanon
Hizbollah Research Paper (Middle East Studies 1999, 2000)

Who Brought US These Grapes of Wrath (Content Analysis Study)

 Ignoring Shia Fundamentalism (Research Paper)
 

Iran-Iraq
 Framing Saddam Hussein (Content Anaylsis Study)

 Bombing Baghdad (Content Analysis Study)

 Iran vs United States: Will the Real Rogue Please Stand Up? (Research Paper)
 

Afghanistan
 Understanding Taliban (Research Paper)
 

India-Kashmir
 Understanding Nuclear India (Research Paper)

 Kashmir: How Will Paradise Heal Itself? (Research Paper)
 

Somewhere in the Bekaa valley, Lebanon, July 2000.
 

Broadcast Work

View a WOUB-TV Web Discussion On Lebanon Based on the Year 1999

 View Panel Discussion on September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks on WOUB (PBS) TV

View Panel Discussion on the 9/11 Terrorist Attacks on Ohio News Network (ONN)

E. W. Scripps International Journalism Institute's 2001 Conference Panel on 
The Most Dangerous Period in 50 Years:
 How Much Does Your Community Care About Events in the
Middle East?
 Listen to the discussion in RealAudio

SPJ Panel Discussion on International Journalism, Ohio University, May 14, 2002 - click here to read the report and hear the discussion.

 

Music
Listen to live performance of Ode to Janis, Recorded - June 25, 2002, at The Blue Gator, Athens, Ohio.

 

Recently Published Work @ Actv7News.com / ATHENSi.com
The following news reports were published on our school-run web site during my research trips in the past years.

 Coalition against terror appears to crumble in the Middle East 

 How to end terrorism

 Hizbollah leaders to meet and reassess goals

 Tape diplomacy in the Middle East

 Lebanon Diary: Week 2

 Hizbollah goes head to head with Israel

 Lebanon Diary: Week 1

 Militants strike at the heart of the Indian capital

 My grandfather's journey from India to Pakistan

Fear and loathing in the land of tigers and mujahideen

 India's Hindu heart misses no beat

Fate of Kashmir hangs in balance of crises-ridden states

 Hizbollah hopes for best, prepares for worst

 The distance between Palestine and Pizza Hut

 What Michael is looking for

Still waiting for Godot

 Israel ups the ante in South Lebanon

 Attacks on occupying forces to continue

 Lebanon puts on a show for Syria
 

Position Papers
The following papers were written as issue-based advisory reports that might be presented as policy analysis. The aim of the exercise was to train the author in the field of writing short yet focused policy directives with respect to contemporary issues. 

 Women's Rights

 The Road Out of Terrorism

  U.S. Foreign Policy in Latin America

 Globalization at Whose Terms?

 Aiding Africa - Starting With a Clean Slate

 Dealing With the New Nationalism 
 

e-mail: 
abhinav_aima@hotmail.com 

"You smile too much.... It'll get you shot!" 
- From an anonymous authority on being shot at, roughed up and detained. 
 
 

Link to Ohio University's Middle East Study program home page