Occupation
Post-Doctoral Fellow
Contact
ABOUT
Farah Atoui is a Ph.D. Candidate in Communication Studies at McGill University, Montréal. Farah has worked at the Sharjah Art Foundation and Art Dubai, two cultural institutions based in the United Arab Emirates (2007-2013). She moved to Montreal in 2013, where she completed a Master’s degree in Media Studies at Concordia University (2015). Her doctoral research investigates the relation between mediation and cross-border human migration in the context of the current so-called migration crisis. Farah is a member of the Regards palestiniens and Regards syriens screening collectives.
Discipline
Communications
Sub Areas
Cinema/Film
Diaspora/Refugee Studies
Visual Cultural
Geographic Areas of Interest
All Middle East
Specialties
Visual Culture
Arab Cinema
Displacement
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (advanced)
English (advanced)
Education
PhD
| 2022
| Art History and Communication Studies
| McGill University
MA
| 2015
| Media Studies
| Concordia University
MA
| 2007
| Management/Marketing
| Ecole Superieure de Commerce de Paris
BA
| 2004
| Business Administration
| American University of Beirut
Abstracts
“Make Dubai The Happiest City On Earth”
Visualizing the Syrian Refugee Crisis
"Chaos": Making Visible Syrian Women’s Experiences of War
