The portrayal of Noura Hussein in the western online newspapers

The way the media portrays women not only influences how society views women but also how women view themselves. The presence of women in some media still tends to be depicted as weak, passive, marginalized, or victims, which depictions can reinforce gender inequality. Therefore, this study will examine newspaper media in depicting Noura Hussein as a Sudanese woman who experienced violence as a teenager. The formulation of the research problem that will be solved in this study is (1) how Noura Hussein is depicted in four western online newspapers.This research used qualitative-descriptive methods and Critical Discourse Analysis to reveal the phenomenon of Noura Hussein's depiction through the use of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences in Western online newspaper articles. Therefore, the data in this research are in the form of words, phrases, clauses, and sentences contained in four articles from four Western online newspapers. The data in this research were collected by selecting articles, reading articles, and downloading the articles. The collected data were then analyzed using Sara Mills' critical discourse analysis theory, namely feminist stylistics. The results of this research indicate that the portrayal of Noura Hussein in four Western online newspapers is still gender biased. In the four Western online newspapers, Noura is portrayed as a passive victim, a helpless victim, a doubtful victim, an exceptional victim, an object of sexuality, and an object of patriarchal ideology.