Dr Dina Matar
BSc (Jordan); MSc, PhD (London)
Overview
- Name:
- Dr Dina Matar
- Email address:
- dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- 0207 898 4696
- Fax:
- 0207 898 4699
- Address:
- SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG - Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 575
- Office Hours:
- Mondays 2-4pm
Biography
I am interested in the relationship between politics, culture and communication in the Arab world, especially in discourses of power and resistance. I am also interested in processes of empowerment and democratization, particularly as experienced by emerging communities and forces in the Arab world,Islamist politics; Arab cultural studies; memory and oral history, diasporas and social movements.
I am co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. The Journal provides a trans-cultural and cross-disciplinary space for critical engagement with the Middle East.
For further information visit www.brill.nl/mjcc or access the content of the first issue here.
Teaching
Courses Taught
- Global Media and Postnational Communication: Theoretical & Contemporary Issues
- International Political Communication
- Mediated Culture in the Middle East: Politics and Communications
- Studies in Global Media and Post-National Communication
I have the pleasure of supervising students researching a wide variety of media-related subjects in the Arab world. Current doctoral students are researching the blogosphere in Egypt, the Muslim Brotherhood websites, public art in revolutionary Egypt and media representation of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon.
Research
Middle East, especially the Arab world; international political communication; Arab cultural politics; Arab cultural studies; memory studies and oral history; Islamist movements; social movements and media; diasporas; ethnic minorities; transnational movements and communications.
Expertise
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Available for
- Radio
- Press
- Briefings
- Special Study Programmes
- Short Term Consultancy
- Long Term Consultancy
- TV
Regional Expertise
- Near and Middle East
Country Expertise
Languages
Publications
Authored Books
Matar, Dina (2010) What it means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian peoplehood. London: I B Taruris.
Edited Books
Matar, Dina and Harb, Zahera, eds. (2013) Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I B Tauris.
Book Chapters
Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Islam in the Narrative of Fatah and Hamas.' In: Matar, Dina and Harb, Zahera, (eds.), Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I.B Tauris. (In Press)
Matar, Dina (2012) 'Comparative Media Research in the Middle East.' In: Volkmer, Ingrid, (ed.), The Handbook of Global Media Research. London: Wiley Blackwell.
Matar, Dina (2011) 'Rethinking the Arab State and Culture.' In: Sabry, Tarik, (ed.), Towards an Arab Cultural Studies. London: I. B. Tauris.
Matar, Dina (2009) 'Performance, Language and Power: Nassrallah’s Mediated Charisma.' In: Bassiouney, Reem, (ed.), Arabic and the Media: Linguistic Analyses and Applications. Leiden: Brill, pp. 141-159.
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. 155-170.
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.
Matar, Dina (2007) 'What it Means to be Palestinian: News and the Diasporic Condition.' In: Sakr, Naomi, (ed.), Arab Media and Political Renewal. London: I B Tauris.
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 (2008) 'Editorial: Communicating Politics in Culture.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 1 (2). pp. 97-101.
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.
Matar, Dina (2006) 'Al-Manar and Lebanese Shiites.' Westminster Papers for Communication and Culture, 3 (2). pp. 220-240.
Book Reviews
Matar, Dina (2005) 'Review of Zelizer, B., 'Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy'.' Media and Cultural Politics: Journal of Communication .
