Contact
Centre for Africa
London School of Economics- LSE
Houghtom Street
London
WC2A2AE
United Kingdom
ABOUT
Dr. Fatima El-Issawi is Reader in Journalism at the University of Essex. She is Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE Centre for Africa and King’s College Institute of Middle Eastern Studies. She is currently the Principal Investigator of the project “Media and Transitions to Democracy: Journalistic Practices in Communicating Conflicts- The Arab Spring” funded by the British Academy Sustainable Development Programme. Her expertise in the media industry with a specific focus on Middle East and North Africa (MENA) crosses journalism, public communication, policy and academia. She has over fifteen years of experience as international correspondent in conflict zones in the region.
Discipline
Journalism
Sub Areas
Arab Studies
Media
Democratization
Development
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Maghreb
Specialties
Political Economy Of Media
Media Institutions/practices
Media Policy In The MENA Region
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (advanced)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2006
| Institut Francais de Presse
| Paris II University
Abstracts
Towards an alternative public space? A Moroccon case study
Egyptian Journalists and the Struggle for Change Following the 2011 Uprising: The ambiguous journalistic agency between change and conformity
Diversity and Democratic Transition: Between Clientelism and Repression
