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Abstract
Since 2014, there has been a growing concern at the violence and the terrorist attacks perpetrated by the Islamic State (IS) against civilians in Egypt and the United Kingdom. Within the context of media discourse, many researchers have examined the relationship between discourse, power and ideology, media patterns, metaphors and myth. Discourse on the war on terror and the construct of terrorism have all been the focus of some attention, response, and reaction to terrorist attacks, definitions of terrorism, policy questions, media portrayals of terrorism, and framing across different media and nations. This study aims at examining the coverage of IS terrorist attacks in four leading Egyptian and British news platforms. By combining quantitative and qualitative methods, the study undertakes a framing analysis of media coverage of terrorism via using ,respectively, Shoemaker and Reese‟s (2014) patterns of media content and Huckin‟s (2002) CDA model. Findings reveal that Muslims are still stereotyped in the western context and christians and Sufis are represented as persecuted ethnic minorities in Egypt. In addition, findings reveal that most of the news platforms still resort to quoting from official sources at the expense of the voice of the public which depicts human sufferings that are seldom brought to the attention of the public.