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Christa Salamandra
Lehman College, CUNY
Occupation
Professor
Contact
Department of Anthropology
Lehman College 250 Bedford Park Blvd West
Bronx NY 10468
United States
ABOUT
Christa Salamandra is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, The City University of New York. Her work focuses on urban, visual and mediated culture in the Arab Middle East. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press, 2004), and numerous articles on Arab media.
Discipline
Anthropology
Sub Areas
Media
Ethnography
Identity/Representation
Geographic Areas of Interest
Arab States
Syria
The Levant
Specialties
Consumption
Media Stds
Urban Stds
Languages
Arabic (advanced)
French (elementary)
Education
PhD | 2001 | ISCA | U Oxford
Abstracts
The Muhannad Effect: Transnational Melodrama and the Arab Female Gaze Prelude to an Uprising: Syrian Fictional Television and Socio-Political Critique Television Matters Television (Still) Matters: Drama in and of the Middle East