Associate Head of Department
Member, Centre for Gender Studies
Member
Centre Chair
- Name:
- Dr Dina Matar
- Email address:
- dm27@soas.ac.uk
- Telephone:
- +44 (0)207 898 4696
- Address:
- SOAS University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
- Building:
- Russell Square: College Buildings
- Office No:
- 575
- Academic Support Hours:
- Mondays 1-3pm
- On Sabbatical:
- 2018-19 Term 1
Biography
Dina Matar has an MSc in Comparative Politics (LSE) and a PhD in Media and Communications (LSE). She works on narrative politics, media and conflict, political communication, cultural politics, memory, oral history and Islamist movements in the Arab World and its diaspora. Before joining SOAS in 2005, she was a teaching fellow at the LSE Media and Communications Department and a visiting lecturer in international/diplomatic journalism at City University. She previously worked as a journalist and editor in the Middle East, Europe, Asia and the US. Dina is keen on bringing a non-Western approach to the theorisation and study of communication, in its diverse forms, through focusing on the dynamics between media practices and socio-political contexts. Her more recent work has focused on narrative politics and cultural and media histories in Palestine. Dina is co-founder and co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, the first trans-cultural and cross-disciplinary space for critical engagement with communication, culture and politics of the contemporary Middle East.
For further information visit www.brill.nl/mjcc or access the content of the first issue here.
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.
Matar, Dina and Khatib, Lina and Alshaer, Atef (2014) The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication. London, New York: Hurst and Oxford University Press.
Matar, Dina (2010) What it means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian peoplehood. London: I B Taruris.
Matar, Dina (2018) 'PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts'. Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, (38) 2, pp 354-364.
Matar, Dina (2017) 'Introduction: Toward a Sociology of Communication and Conflict: Iraq and Syria'. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, (10) 2-3, pp 99-108.
Matar, Dina (2015) 'Hassan Nasrallah: The cultivation of image and language in the making of a charismatic leader'. Culture, Communication & Critique, (8) 3, pp 433-447.
Matar, Dina (2012) 'Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings: A return to History'. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, (5) 1, pp 75-79.
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) 'Heya Television: A feminist counterpublic for Arab women?'. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, (27) 3, pp 513-525.
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.
Matar, Dina and Dakhlalah, Farah (2006) 'What It Means to Be Shiite in Lebanon: Al Manar and the Imagined Community of Resistance'. Westminster Papers for Communication and Culture, (3) 2, pp 22-40.
Matar, Dina, (ed.), (2017) Special Issue: Communication and Conflict: Iraq and Syria. Brill. (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication; Vol. 10 (2)).
Matar, Dina and Tawil-Souri, Helga, (eds.), (2016) Gaza as Metaphor. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [Forthcoming]
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.
Matar, Dina (2017) 'First Framing and News: Lessons from Reporting Jordan in Crises'. In: Harb, Zahera, (ed.), Reporting the Middle East: The Practices of News in the Twenty-First Century. London: I. B. Tauris, pp 33-49.
Matar, Dina (2016) 'Narratives and the Syrian Uprising: The Role of Stories in Political Activism and Identity Struggles'. In: Zayani, Mohamed and Merghani, Suzi, (eds.), Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab uprisings. New York: Oxford University Press, pp 89-107.
Matar, Dina (2016) 'Gaza: Image Normalization'. In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London; New York: Hurst; Oxford University Press, pp 173-187.
Alshaer, Atef (2016) 'In the Company of Frantz Fanon: The Israeli Wars and the National Culture of Gaza'. In: Souri, Helga Tawil and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst;, pp 141-157.
Matar, Dina (2016) 'Reporting Jordan'. In: Harb, Zahera, (ed.), Reporting the Middle East. London: I.B. Tauris. [Forthcoming]
Matar, Dina (2014) 'A Critical Perspective on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age.'. Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in the Middle East and North Africa. London:. London: I. B. Tauris.
Matar, Dina (2014) 'Hassan Nasrallah: the central actor in Hizbullah's Political Communication Strategies'. The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication. Oxford: Hurst & Co.; Oxford University Press, pp 153-180.
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 (2012) 'Foreword'. In: Valassopoulos, Anastasia, (ed.), Arab Cultural Studies: History, Politics and the Popular. London: Routledge.
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.
Matar, Dina (2017) 'Co-Optation of Third Worldism: Review of 'Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization and the Third World Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.'. Diplomatic History.
Matar, Dina (2013) 'Review of "The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order" by Paul Thomas Chamberlin'. Diplomatic History.
Matar, Dina (2005) 'Review of Zelizer, B., 'Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy''. Media and Cultural Politics: Journal of Communication.
Matar, Dina (2017) 'Whose “Ethnic Cleansing?”: Israel’s Appropriation of the Palestinian Narrative (Commentary)' Al-Shabaka: The Palestian Policy Network.
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