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Illustrating children's book covers plays a significant role in conveying cultural concepts to them. The cultural identity of children can be indirectly reinforced by images that reference specific cultural concepts of a community or a region.This study aims to answer the question of how the cultural identity of girls and women is represented in the cover illustrations of children's stories in Arabic-speaking countries. To gain insight into cultural identity, particularly Arab identity among Arabic-speaking girls and women, it analyzes the statistical population. In this context, 249 cover designs from six Arab countries including Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and the UAE were examined for the age group (B). Results show that the UAE is the most wealthy nation in terms of cultural visual representations, while Syria is the least prosperous in this regard. Arab girls' and women's faces are prominent in most images, and the palm tree, a symbol of natural geography, plays a significant role in Arab identity, especially in Iraq publications. Older women on the cover illustrations are often veiled, and the veil is one of the most prominent visual symbols. Nevertheless, in Lebanon and Syria, this symbol is less prominent across all age categories. It appears that a general conclusion can be derived regarding the identity of Arab girls and women on the covers of children's books in Arabic-speaking countries in the present study. This identity is a combination of Arab and Islamic identity, with a particular emphasis on geographical and natural symbols.

Children's and teenager's magazines, among other mass media, have an impact on the process of socialization. Because these magazines can induce, change and modify values, behaviors, and gender role patterns among children in various ways such as by choosing specific topics and targeted illustrations. This article aims to compare the images of "Osama" magazine in Syria and" Roshd daneshamoz" magazine in Iran from the perspective of gender. The purpose of this article is to compare the representation of gender in the images of Osamah magazine in Syria and Roshd al-Mashoz magazine in Iran. The analysis of the samples was done using Kress and Van Leon's model in the reading of social semiotics, which examines the images on three levels of representational, interactive and combined meaning. The results of the analysis of these three meanings showed that the pictures of these two magazines try to present common gender stereotypes to children. The roles of "woman-mother", "woman-grandmother" and "daughter" are present as a central or secondary role in most of the images of both magazines, and in none of the images are women in important social roles such as medicine or technical, and the representation of such roles Completely forgotten. In examining the interactive meaning, it has been determined that most of the images are in the mode of presenting information and invite the viewers to their world. Far and medium views are mostly used in the representation of images. The combined meaning has caused a connection between the representational and interactive meaning, the use of the center-margin pattern, giving prominence to women and not using framing in most of the images of both magazines emphasize the role of women in them.