Media and Intercultural Relations between Iranian World and Arab World

Any relations among humans will lead to intercultural relations in practice. Today, the media is burdened with an important portion of such relations. The relationship between “Iranian world” and “Arab world” is no exception to this. The essence of this relationship and its chief elements are culture and civilization coming from shared life or interaction among various tribes and nations and from the transference of its cultural components. In the course of history, the Iranian and Arab worlds have maintained coexistence either by choice or by force so that they have a major share in laying the foundation of a joint civilization. The most outstanding example of intercultural confrontation between the Iranians and Arabs dates back to the building of a bright Islamic civilization known as the Islamic Renaissance. “Islam” was the architecture and promoter of relations and communications between the Iranian and Arab worlds. This interaction, however, is facing some challenges today. These challenges have not been created overnight. To overcome these challenges, one must review and analyze their root causes. This paper has focused on media capacities and roles in minimizing the intercultural tensions coming from deconstructive representations while reviewing the historical cultural commonalities between the Iranian and Arab worlds. The main instrument for studying these variables is the so-called peace journalism that is a media for boosting mutual agreement, concord, and mutual understanding between the two cultures. However, we will first show that analyzing the structures of conflict and violence is the prerequisite for paying attention to peace.
We will also show in this paper that how intercultural, scientific and academic relations can directly and indirectly work along with the media to pave the ground for concordant intercultural relations. Cooperation among the university students majoring in cultural relations and studies in the cultural arena of the Iranian and Arab worlds can pave the ground for holding training courses and specialized workshops on peace journalism.