Nötzold, Katharina
RCUK Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Arab Media Policy
Email: K.Noetzold@westminster.ac.uk
Katharina Noetzold joined CAMRI as a RCUK-Research Fellow specialising in Arab media in November 2007.
Her doctoral thesis, undertaken at Erfurt University, Germany examined the role played by political elites in dominating Lebanese television content in the struggle for defining Lebanese national identity in the post-civil war years. She is the author of Defining the Nation? Lebanese Television and Political Elites, 1990-2005, Berlin: Frank & Timme, 2009.
A former Research Fellow at the Center for International Peace Operations in Berlin and a Junior Research Fellow at the German Institute for Middle Eastern Studies in Beirut, Katharina has in-depth knowledge about the difficulties of postconflict peace-building processes and the medias functioning within it.
She is now developing research about the role of public television in the Arab world, looking at the meaning and interpretation of public service television in an Arab context and also the strategies that former monopolistic state broadcasters in a number of Arab countries develop to face an ever-growing competition of pan-Arab satellite channels.
Since September 2008 she is the Editor of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC).
