Dr Lina Khatib
Overview
Centre for Media and Film Studies
Research Associate
- Name:
- Dr Lina Khatib
- Email address:
- lk8@soas.ac.uk
Biography
Her research interests include the relationship between media representations and politics in Middle East. She is the author of Filming the Modern Middle East: Politics in the Cinemas of Hollywood and the Arab World (I.B. Tauris, 2006) and Lebanese Cinema: Imagining the Civil War and Beyond (I.B. Tauris, 2008). She is also the editor of the Journal of Media Practice, and a founding co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
In 2006 Lina completed a short film titled Quelle Révolution, which is an experimental documentary on the outcome of the Lebanese “Cedar Revolution” of 2005, and in 2007, a 30-minute documentary titled Mapping the South, on the South of Lebanon in the aftermath of the 2006 war. Both films have been exhibited internationally.
Lina’s currently working on a book titled Image Politics in the Middle East: The Visual as Political Communication. The book examines the way states, political parties, civil society groups and citizens in the region engage in processes of political communication through the use of visuals in electronic (television, internet, mobile phones) and non-electronic (billboards, graffiti, physical structures) mediated forms. Fieldwork for the book is funded by a small grant from the British Academy.
