Media Representation and Management of Crises in Bahrain: Discourse Analysis of Arabic Newspapers in Arab Countries of Persian Gulf (From 7 March to 8 June, 2011)

When “Islamic awakening trend” reached the climax at the beginning of 2011، Bahraini people along with this trend ventured the widespread protest. But with military intervention of the Bahraini Government and other “Persian Gulf Cooperation Council” forces، this protest has become a real crisis. At this situation the media of Arabic countries in the Persian Gulf، represented and managed this crisis according to their government dominant discourse. This article tried to discover this discourse through representation theory and discourse analysis method. According to what have been said، 18 news reports of 8 Arabic newspapers published in Arab Countries of Persian Gulf was selected، as a sample for discourse analysis. This analysis eventually led to discover the “strategy adopted” and “represented crisis” managed by the mentioned media and the functional model which has been used to implement their media diplomacy.