Dr Dounia Mahlouly

"Dr Mahlouly is the Interim Chair for SOAS Department of Media Studies. She is a Senior Lecturer and postgraduate course convenor for 'Studies in Global Digital Cultures', 'International Political Communication', and 'Theoretical and Contemporary Issues in Global Media and Digital Communication.'

She designed the course entitled 'Prejudice, Conspiracy and Misinformation: Understanding the Debate around '(Post)-Truth' as part of SOAS MA programme in Global Media and Communications and taught Digital Diplomacy for the distance learning programme of SOAS Centre for International Studies and Diplomacy (CISD). Dounia is the author of 'Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings' and the Founder of the 'Middle East Research Hub' (merh.org), a non-profit association disseminating social science research applied to the Middle East and North Africa region.
She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow, in partnership with the American University in Cairo in 2015. Her PhD research (2015) investigates the evolving communication strategy of leading political actors campaigning in post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. Before joining SOAS Department of Media Studies, she conducted her postdoctoral research at King's College London. Simultaneously, she worked as a Senior Research Associate for The Open University (OU).

Her research interests are broad and interdisciplinary, ranging from social media campaigning to soft power/cultural diplomacy, misinformation and the study of online counter-narratives from the perspective of critical terrorism studies.
She is interested in supervising dissertations that draw on the fields of media studies, cultural studies and political communication."