Team and Contacts
Dr Naomi Sakr
Author of Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East (2002) and Arab Television Today (2007). Editor of Women and Media in the Middle East: Power through Self-Expression (2004, reprinted 2007), and Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life (2007).
Dr Tarik Sabry
Author of articles published in European Journal of Cultural Studies (2005), Transnational Broadcasting Studies (2005) and Arab Media and Political Renewal (2007). Co-editor of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and former editor of Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture.
Dr Katharina Noetzold
RCUK Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Arab Media Policy. Specialist in the politics of pan-Arab and Lebanese media, with a PhD from the University of Erfurt, supervised by Professors Kai Hafez and Theodor Hanf. Former Research Assistant at the University of Leipzig and Research Fellow at the Centre for International Peace Operations in Berlin.
Maha Taki
PhD researcher specialising in new media and the Internet in the Arab world. Mahas PhD research explores the appropriation of the Internet in developing contexts, specifically focusing on weblogs in Lebanon and Syria. Maha has presented papers based on her research at international conferences in London, U.A.E , Switzerland, Copenhagen and Beirut.
Layal Ftouni
PhD researcher specialising in visual representations of women from the Middle East in contemporary visual arts ( film and photograpy). She is researching in areas such as Postcolonial theory, Orientalism, and visual culture. Layal has co-produced a documentary titled The Veil: Subjugation, Fundamentalism or Liberation (2004).
Contact us
Arab Media Centre
Camri Research Office
University of Westminster
F Block, Room GO4
Watford road
Harrow, Middlesex
HA1 3TP
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7911 5968
Email: amc-office@westminster.ac.uk
Associate Fellows
The Arab Media Centre maintains links with an international network of researchers, including some who are funded by their own universities to spend time at the Centre as Visiting Scholars and who may then stay in touch as Associate Fellows. They include:
Augusto Valeriani
Author of Il giornalismo arabo (Rome, 2005) plus several book chapters and articles based on extensive fieldwork conducted in Egypt and the Gulf. Lecturer in Media and International Politics in the Roberto Ruffilli Faculty of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy, and holder of PhD on "Arab Journalists in the Al-Jazeera Era: Negotiating a National Journalistic Culture in a Transnational Arena".Ehab Galal
Author of Goddag man oekseskaft (Copenhagen 1999) about interpretation between different cultures and languages, plus articles in Danish and English about Arab satellite television. Holder of PhD scholarship at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at Copenhagen University for research on the role of transnational television in negotiations and constructions of Islamic identities in contemporary society
Tine Ustad Figenschou
Tine Ustad Figenschou is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo, Norway. She is currently a Visiting Scholar at the Arab Media Centre working on her PhD project on Al-Jazeera English. Figenschou has a background in print journalism and has taught journalism at the Norwegian Journalism School.
Links
The Arab Media Centre is a member of the UK Network of the Anna Lindh Foundation.
"The University of Westminster is a Partner Institution of the MBI Al Jaber Foundation, which accepts scholarship applications from Arab students resident in the Middle East and North Africa who have secured a place on a postgraduate degree course. Arab Media Centre staff teach on the University of Westminster's postgraduate MA Communication programme, which includes the MA in Communication, MA in Communications Policy and MA in Global Media.
The Arab Media Centre has special links with Arab Media and Society and the The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
