Contact
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P.O. Box 34102
Doha
Qatar
ABOUT
Marwan M. Kraidy is Professor of Global Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He writes about the nexus of Arab media, culture and politics. Recently he was the Edward Said Chair of American Studies at the American University of Beirut and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, and previously of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. His books include Reality Television and Arab Politics: Contention in Public Life (Cambridge, 2010), which won the 2010 Best Book Award in Global Communication and Social Change from the International Communication Association, the 2011 Diamond Anniversary Best Book Award from the National Communication Association, and the 2011 Roderick P. Hart Outstanding Book Award from the Political Communication Division of the National Communication Association; Arab Television Industries (BFI/Palgrave, 2009, with J. Khalil), Hybridity, or, The Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple, 2005), and the co-edited volumes Global Media Studies: Ethnographic Perspectives (Routledge, 2003), The Politics of Reality Television: Global Perspectives (Routledge, 2010), and Communication and Power in the Global Era: Orders and Borders (Routledge, 2012). Kraidy is a frequent expert commentator on global and Arab media issues, most regularly on National Public Radio in the United States
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Cultural Studies
Identity/Representation
Pop Culture
Transnationalism
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Fertile Crescent
Lebanon
Specialties
Ident & Representation
Media In The Arab World
Pop Cult & Arab Pol
Languages
Arabic (native)
French (fluent)
Spanish (intermediate)
Education
PhD
| 1996
| Sch-Telecomtn
| Ohio U
Abstracts
The Pan-Arab Reality Television War: Performing Politics, Taming Modernity
Reconsidering the Corpus of/in New Media Theory: From Body-as-Medium to Body-as-Data?,
Fun Against Fear: The Islamic State Spectacle and Counter-Spectacle
The Torch and the Hearth: Fire in Islamic State's Own Words and Images
“Islamic State” Media and the Age of Pyropolitics
