Events and Lectures
The Arab Media Centre hosts three to four guest lectures in central London during the academic year. Check this page for the new programme of lectures for the 2010/2011 academic year which will begin in October. All lectures listed below took place in the Regent Street Campus, unless otherwise stated.
Call for papers: Media, Youth Subcultures and the Politics of Resistance in the Arab World
Events and lectures during the 2009/10 academic year were as follows:
Diversity and Media in Europe and North America , November 19, 2009. Panel presentations and debate, hosted in association with the Panos Paris Institute, to mark the publication of a Panos Paris Institute report .
What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Peoplehood, February 25, 2010, by Dina Matar, Lecturer, Centre for Film and Media Studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Neoliberalising People and Places in Egyptian Media , March 17, 2010, by Walter Armbrust, Albert Hourani Fellow of Modern Middle Eastern Studies, St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
Events and lectures, 2008/09
Lost in Translation? A Methodological Approach to Adapting Surveys and Questionnaires from English to Arabic, Mandarin or Spanish, October 30, 20008, by Lina Daouk-Öyry, Lecturer, Department of Language and Communication Science, City University.
In the Aftermath of Gaza: Conflict Reporting, Media Perspectives and Public Perceptions, February 16, 2009. Full-day roundtable and press event hosted jointly with the Anna Lindh Foundation, in collaboration with the Foreign Press Association, the Euromed Media Taskforce and the UN Alliance of Civilisations.
Meedan: Arabic-English Media Sharing on the Internet, February 25, 2009 by Anas Tawileh, ICT4D consultant, and George Weyman, former managing editor of Arab Media and Society.
Elegy for a City: 3 Short Films by Sabine El Chamaa. Film Screening followed by Q & A with director Sabine El Chamaa, March 10, 2009.
Events and lectures 2007/08
Hezbollah's Media Strategy: The Collapsing Politics of Dissimulation, September 19, 2007, by Nicholas Noe, Editor-in-Chief, Mideastwire.com
Shots That Bind: Photojournalists in Nablus, November 1, 2007, Screening of documentary film by Kloie Picot followed by Q & A with Assistant Director and University of Westminster alumnus Muthana al-Qadi.
Al-Jazeera English: Clash of Civilisations or Cross-Cultural Dialogue?, November 21, 2007, by Mohammed El-Nawawy, Knight-Crane Endowed Chair and Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, Queens University of Charlotte. Hosted at Harrow Campus in conjunction with CAMRI Postgraduate Seminar Series.
In the Shadow of International Crises: Constructions of Islamic Discourses in New Media, November 29, 2007, by Ehab Galal, PhD Candidate, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.
Challenges and Self-Criticism in the Arab News Room, February 21, 2008, by Tine Ustad Figenschou, Research Fellow, Institute of Media and Communication, University of Oslo.
Views from Saudi Arabia: Women and Change, April 2, 2008, by Abeer Miskhas, Asharq al-Awsat journalist and former columnist for Arab News.
Beyond Media Representations: Iraqi Women and the Occupation, May 22, 2008, by Nadje Al-Ali, Director, Centre for Gender Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London.
Events and lectures 2006/07
America, Islam and the War of Ideas, January 30, 2007, by Lawrence Pintak, Director, Adham Centre for Electronic Journalism, American University in Cairo.
Arab Media in a Changing World, April 26, 2007, by Yahia Shukkeir, Local Affairs Editor, Al-Arab Al-Yawm.
