Occupation
Associate Professor
Contact
Secondary Phone: +96599909668
ABOUT
Fahed Al-Sumait is an Associate Professor of Communication at the American University of Kuwait. His research focuses on strategic communication, intercultural studies, and digital inequalities with a concentration on Kuwait and the Arabian Peninsula region of the Middle East. He has served as a Fulbright-Hays fellow for his research into contested discourses on Arab democratization, as a post-doctoral research fellow at the National University of Singapore, and as a visiting research fellow at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He is co-editor of the books, The Arab Uprisings: Catalysts, Dynamics and Trajectories (2014, Rowman & Littlefield), and Covering bin Laden: Global Media and the World's Most Wanted Man (2015, University of Illinois Press). He is currently President of the Association for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula Studies and has served in numerous administrative roles, including Acting Vice President for Academic Affairs, Department Chair, interim Dean of Student Affairs, and Chair of the Global Studies Center. He holds an MA from the University of New Mexico and a PhD from the University of Washington, both in Communication.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Cultural Studies
Democratization
Gulf Studies
Information Technology/Computing
Media
Theory
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arabian Peninsula
Gulf
Kuwait
Specialties
Political Discourse
Digital Inequalities
Intercultural Communication
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
English (native)
Education
PhD
| 2011
| Communication
| University of Washington
MA
| 2006
| Communication and Journalism
| University of New Mexico
BA
| 1998
| Communication
| University of Washington
Abstracts
Variable terrain: Kuwaiti discourses on Arab democratization
A Rhetorical Tightrope: U.S. Political Discourse on Arab Democracy following the Cold War
Evaluating Kuwait’s Digital Ecosystem: The Prospects and Pitfalls of Technological Transformation
Cultural Influences on Opinion Expression in an Online and Offline Kuwaiti Context
Assessing the Digital Impacts of COVID-19 in Kuwait
Identifying Communities of Exclusion in Kuwait’s Digital Media Landscape
