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Joel Parker
Tel Aviv University
Occupation
Researcher
Contact
Secondary Phone: (972) 364-0910
Tel Aviv University
Moshe Dayan Center Gilman Building 420
Tel Aviv 6997801
Israel
ABOUT
A research fellow at the MDC of Tel Aviv University, he earned his PhD in contemporary Syrian history in 2014. His dissertation subject was a socio-political biography of Akram al-Hawrani, a Syrian radical politician known for bringing the peasantry into the political system in Syria. Currently, he also follows developments in Syria, Lebanon and Iraq, with particular attention given to audio-visual propaganda and other political mobilization techniques in the context of violence and civil war.
Discipline
History
Sub Areas
Middle East/Near East Studies
Ethnomusicology
Nationalism
Islamic Thought
Geographic Areas of Interest
Iraq
Israel
Jordan
Lebanon
Syria
Specialties
Modern And Contemporary Syria, Political Culture,
Contemporary Music, Music Videos, Propaganda
Languages
Arabic (intermediate)
Hebrew (advanced)
French (advanced)
Abstracts
The Sound Affects of the Syrian Uprising