Dr Dina Matar
BSC(JORDAN) MSC PHD(LONDON)
Overview
Contact Details
- Name:
- Dr Dina Matar
- Email address:
- dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 0207 898 4696
- Fax:
- 0207 898 4699
- Address:
- School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 549
- Office Hours:
- Tuesdays 1200-1400
Dina Matar is co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication launched in July 2008. The Journal provides a transcultural academic sphere that engages Middle Eastern and Western scholars in a critical dialogue about culture,communication and politics in the Middle East. It also provides a forum for debate on the regions encounters with modernity and the ways in which this is reshaping peoples everyday experiences.
For further information visit www.brill.nl/mjcc or access the content of the first issue here.
Teaching
Courses Taught
Expertise
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Available for
- TV
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
- Egypt
- Jordan
- Lebanon
- Palestine
- Syria
Languages
Publications
Chapters in Books
Matar, Dina (2007) 'New Stories and Diasporic Discourses of Identification - the Palestinians in Britain.' In: Asgharzadeh, A. and Lawson, E. and Oka, K. U. and Wahab, A., (eds.), Diasporic Ruptures. Globality, Migrancy, and Expressions of Identity. Volume 1. Sense Publishers, pp. 153-169.
Matar, Dina (2007) 'News Stories and Disaporic Discourses of Identification: the Palestinians in Britain.' In: Asharzadeh, Alireza et al., (ed.), Diasporic ruptures: globality, migrancy and expressions of identity. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 150-173.
Matar, Dina (2007) 'Palestinians, News and the Diasporic Condition.' In: Sakr, Naomi, (ed.), Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life. London: I B Tauris, pp. 118-135.
Articles
Matar, Dina (2008) 'The Power of Conviction: Nassrallah’s Rhetoric and Mediated Charisma in the context of the 2006 July War.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 1 (2). pp. 122-137.
Matar , Dina (2007) 'The Palestinians in Britain, News and the Politics of Recognition.' International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2 (3). pp. 317-330.
Matar , Dina (2006) 'Diverse Diasporas, One Meta-Narrative: Palestinians in the UK Talking about 11 September 2001.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (6). pp. 1027-1040.
Matar, Dina (2006) 'What It Means to be a Shiite in Lebanon: Al Manar and the Imagined Community of Resistance.' Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 3 (2). pp. 22-40.
