Faculty Scholarship Highlights

Berg, Miriam, Turkish Drama Serials: The Importance of a Globally Popular Television Phenomenon. Exeter, UK: University of Exeter press, 2023. 250 pages.

Hermez, Sami, My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press, 2024. 328 pages.

Mohsin, Anto, Electrifying Indonesia: Technology and Social Justice in National Development. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press, 2023. 270 pages. 

Zayani, Mohamed, and Joe Khalil, The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in the Middle East. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2024. 316 pages.

Al-Hroub, Khaled, and Abdullah Baabood (eds.), al-Islāmiyyūn wa l-thawrāt al-ʿArabiyya (Islamists and Arab Revolutions). Amman: Ahlia, 2023. 390 pages.

Dunsky, Marda, Watch Your Words: Journalistic Writing and Editing for the Digital Age, Fifth Edition. Lanham, Maryland: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2023. 122 pages.   

Khalil, Joe, G. Khiabany, T. Guaaybess, B. Yesil (eds.), The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell, 2023. 576 pages.

Moore, Marshall, and Sam Meekings (eds.), The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice: Beyond Craft, Pedagogy and the Academy. London: Bloomsbury, 2024. 204 pages.  

Mutsvairo, Bruce, Saba Bebawi, and Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.), Routledge Companion to Journalism in the Global South. London: Routledge, 2023. 516 pages.

Abusharif, Ibrahim, “Religious Authority, Digitality, and Islam: The Stakes and Background.” Journal of Islamic and Muslim Studies, 8, 1 (2023): 109-119.

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Dār al-Najjār fī rawāyat Rām-Allāh al-mulaḥamiyya: ʿAbbād Yaḥyā yakaththif taḥawlāt Filisṭīn” (The al-Najjar House in the epic novel Ramallah). Nizwa, 116 (2023): 60-70.

Allagui, Ilhem, and Abenezer Bekele, “The rising business of video streaming in MENA.” Journal of Creative Industries and Cultural Studies, 10 (2023): 89-118.

Allagui, Ilhem, “The big techs keep gaining momentum. Is it time for a new research agenda?” The Journal of Creative Industries & Cultural Studies, 9 (2023): 16-23.  

Anghelcev, George, Sela Sar, and Yan Huang, “Effects of Affect and Message Framing on Responses to Charity Advertising: A Construal Level and Regulatory Focus Perspective.” Communication Studies, 75, 2 (2024): 115-131.  

Anghelcev, George, Sar, Sela, Moultrie, Jas, & Naqvi, Shageaa. “The Ideal Advertising Professor: A ZMET-Based Inquiry.” Journal of Current Issues & Research in Advertising, 44, 2 (2023): 169-191.

Berg, Miriam, “Negotiating Authenticity and Social Identity: Rural Women's Engagement with Müge Anlı ile Tatlı Sert.” Journal of Communication Inquiry, (2023): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1177/01968599231210764  

Berg, Miriam, “Turkish television serials’ reception among women viewers in rural Türkiye: Gendered and generational readings between younger and older women.” International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, 19, 1 (2023): 79-99.

Celikkol, Yasemin, and Marwan Kraidy, “Neo-Ottoman Cool West: The Drama of Turkish Drama in the Bulgarian Public Sphere.” Critical Studies in Media Communication, 40, 5 (2023): 306-320.

Fedtke, Jana, “Gendered Nationalism: Bangladeshi Narratives of the War of Liberation.” South Asia Research, 43, 3 (2023): 433-436.

Highland, Kristen Doyle, and Jana Fedtke, “Rethinking the Essay: Student Perceptions of Collaborative Digital Multimodal Composition in the College Classroom.” Higher Education Pedagogies, 8, 1 (2023): 1-21.

Ahmad, Norita, Maria Toro-Troconis, Mohammed Ibahrine, et al., “CoDesignS Education for Sustainable Development: A Framework for Embedding Education for Sustainable Development in Curriculum Design.” Sustainability, 15, 23 (2023): 1-24. 

Zaid, B., M. Ben Moussa, K. Ayyad, Mohammed Ibahrine, A. El Kadoussi, “The Domestication of Netflix in the Gulf.” International Journal of Communication, 17 (2023): 6613–6632. 

Jaber, Heather, “Missionizing Affects: Recoding the Digital Leak in Transnational Arab Media.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 16, 2, (2023): 115-131.  

Jin, S. Venus, “In the Metaverse we (mis)trust? Third-level digital (in)equality, social phobia, neo-luddism, and blockchain/cryptocurrency transparency in the artificial intelligence-powered Metaverse.” CyberPsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (2024): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1089/cyber.2022.0376  

Jin, S. Venus, “To comply or to react, that is the question: The impact of humanness versus eeriness of AI-powered virtual influencers, loneliness, and threats to human identities on empathy and intention to follow virtual influencers.” Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 1, 2 (2023): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chbah.2023.100011  

Jin, S. Venus, Viswanathan, V., “Threatened and empty selves following AI-based virtual influencers: Comparison between followers and non-followers of virtual influencers in AI-driven digital marketing.” AI & Society: Knowledge, Culture, and Communication (2024): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-023-01832-9  

Zayani, Mohamed, and Khalil, Joe F. “Reckoning with the Legacy of the Digital: Toward a Renewed Quest for Modernity in the Middle East." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 1.aop (2024): 1-20.

Kozman, Claudia, and Lanfu Liu, “Sports news in five Arab countries: A comparative study of platforms, sources, and journalistic role performance.” Communication & Sport (2024): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1177/21674795241231004   

Kozman, Claudia, Mellado, C., et al., “Does news platform matter? Comparing online journalistic role performance to newspaper, radio, and television.” Digital Journalism (2023): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2023.2191332  

Ajjan, Maysaa, and Claudia Kozman, “The suicide of Egyptian queer activist Sarah Hegazi in the news: A comparative analysis of the coverage in Egyptian, Lebanese, and American media.” Health Communication (2023): advance online publication, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2229985

El Amine, Jana, and Claudia Kozman, “Framing and sourcing the 2019 Lebanese protests on local television.” International Journal of Communication, 17 (2023): 4997–5016.

Kraidy, Marwan, “Neo-anachronism? The Coiled Temporalities of Turkish Television Drama in Latin America.” Media, Culture, and Society (2023): advance online publication, https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/01634437231217168 

Menge, Torsten, “Discriminating Borders: Nationality, Racial Ordering, and the Right to Exclude.” Genealogy+Critique, 9, 1 (2023): 1-24. 

Najem, T. Chafic, “A Defiant Act of Looking: Prisoners’ Illicit Documentary Practices of Shooting-Back.” Panoptikum, 29 (2023): 115–138.  

Tayeb, Leila, “To Follow Bousaadiya: Mobility and Memory in Libyan Cultural Politics.” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 6, 3 (2023): 313-336. 

Wright, Zachary, “The Qurʾān and the Knowledge of God in West Africa: The Sufi tafsīr of Shaykh Ibrāhīm Niasse.” Islamic Africa, 15 (2024): 69-97.  

Wright, Zachary, “Scholars, Secrets, and Sultans: Clerical Authority in West Africa, 1450-1650.” Journal of African History, 64, 2 (2023): 248-268. 

Abusharif, Ibrahim, “Islam and Digital Religion.” Heidi A. Campbell, and Pauline Hope Cheong (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Digital Religion. Oxford University Press, 2023.

Allagui, Ilhem, “The Dynamics of Advertising in MENA: An Empirical Model.” Khalil, J., Guaaybess, T., Khiabany, G., and Yasil, B. (eds.), The Handbook on Media and Culture in the Middle East. IAMCR Global Handbook series. Oxford: Wiley, 2023. Pages 245-260.

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Hamas and a Century of Resistance.” S. Englert, M. Schatz and R. Warren (eds.), From the River to the Sea: Essays for a Free Palestine. London: Verso, 2023. 

Fedtke, Jana, and Ibahrine, Mohammed, “Disruption in the Arts and Humanities: Promoting a Mindset of Innovation and Entrepreneurship.” Alain-Philippe Durand and Christine Henseler (eds.), The Entrepreneurial Humanities: The Crucial Role of the Humanities in Enterprise and the Economy. Routledge, 2023. Pages 65-73. 

Fedtke, Jana, “Peripheral Urbanization as Queer Identity in Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness.” Swathi Krishna S. and Srirupa Chatterjee (eds.), Gendered Violence in Public Spaces: Women’s Narratives of Travel in Neoliberal India.  Lexington Books, 2023.

Khalil, Joe F. “Beyond revolutions, digital media economy in the Middle East: Continuing legacies and emerging disjunctures.” Flew, T., Holt, J. & Thomas, J. (Eds.). The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. London: Sage, 2023. Pages 405-425. 

Khalil, Joe F. “Dialectics of Resistance: Youth in the Middle East” Khalil, J., Guaaybess, T., Khiabany, G., and Yasil, B. (eds.), The Handbook on Media and Culture in the Middle East. IAMCR Global Handbook series. Oxford: Wiley, 2023. Pages 513-519. 

Khalil, Joe F., and Zayani, Mohamed, “Streaming the Middle East: From Legacy Media to Digital Platforms.”  Bouquillion, P., Ithurbide C., and Mattelart, T.  (eds.) Digital Platforms and The Global South Reconfiguring Power Relations in The Cultural Industries. London: Taylor & Francis, 2023. Pages 165-181.

Khamis, Iman, “Building a Chatbot for Libraries.” Holland Barbara (ed.)., Handbook of Research on Advancements of Contactless Technology and Service Innovation in Library and Information Science. IGI-Global, 2023. Pages 287-315.

Khamis, Iman, “The Use of Machine Learning in Libraries: How to Build a Book Recommender System.” Holland Barbara (ed.)., Handbook of Research on Advancements of Contactless Technology and Service Innovation in Library and Information Science. IGI-Global, 2023. Pages 23-44.

Kozman, Claudia, “Reporting the MENA as conflict: Political influences, routine practices, and journalists’ struggles in the field.” Bruce Mutsvairo, Saba Bebawi, and Eddy Borges-Rey (eds.), Routledge companion to journalism in the Global South. Routledge, 2023. Pages 262-270. 

Kozman, Claudia, “Teaching research methods online.” Raluca Cozma and Susan Keith (eds.), Teaching Journalism Online. WJEC-UNESCO, 2023. Pages 96-100.  

Kraidy, Marwan, “Hybridity as Dazzlement: Rethinking Fusion Through Joseph Tonda’s Postcolonial Imperialism.” Khalil, J., Guaaybess, T., Khiabany, G., and Yasil, B. (eds.), The Handbook on Media and Culture in the Middle East. IAMCR Global Handbook series. Oxford: Wiley, 2023. Pages 37-44.

Maharjan, Harsha Man, “Emergence of Television Publics in Nepal: Intense Participation of Audiences as News Sources, Critics and Fans.” S. M. Shameem Reza and Ratan Kumar Roy (eds.), Television Publics in South Asia: Mediated Politics and Culture. Routledge, 2023. Pages 137–158.  

Meekings, Sam, “The Green Light” and ‘For A Long Time Now I Have Been Burning.” J. Prendergast, El Herber-Goodall, J. Webb (eds.), Creative Writing Responses to Images of the Living Brain. Melbourne: Australasian Association of Writing Programs, 2023.  

Meekings, Sam, "A Fist of Muscle”. Vivian Gornick (ed.), Best American Essays 2023. New York: HarperCollins, 2023.

Paschyn, Christina, “Orientalist narratives and subversive activism in the lead-up to the 2022 World Cup.” Global LGBTQ Activism: Social Media, Digital Technologies, and Protest Mechanisms. Milton Park, UK: Taylor and Francis, 2023. Pages 63-82.  

Tayeb, Leila, “Digital Intimacy and Violence in Contemporary Libya.” Loubna H. Skalli and Nahed Eltantawy (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Gender, Media and Communication in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Pages 301-316.

Atrach, Dana, “Bel Falstini” (documentary film). Qumra 2023, Doha Film Institute, Doha, Qatar. March 2023. 

Al-Subai, Nora, Atrach, Dana, “Al-Dana” (feature film). Game Developers Conference. San Francisco, California. March 2023. 

Queiroga, Joao, “Digging for Life” (documentary film). Karama-Beirut Human Rights Film Festival. (Beirut, Lebanon). October 2023.   

Striker, Spencer, "Empires & Interconnections for App Store and Google Play." Digital Media Production. Spring 2023. 

Striker, Spencer, "Plague of Athens for Meta Quest Store." Digital Media Production. January 2024.  

Kazkaz, Rana. University Film & Video Association Award of Merit: The Translator. 2023.  

Najem, T. Chafic. International Communication Association: Outstanding Dissertation Award - Smuggle, Frame, Shoot: Illicit Media Practices and Visual Insurgency from Lebanese Incarceration. 2023.  

Queiroga, Joao. Fiscal Sponsorship Program, The Gotham Film & Media Institute. 2023. 

Striker, Spencer. Anthem Awards: Best Literacy Platform - Empires & Interconnections. 2023. 

Striker, Spencer. dotCOMM Award: Platinum Winner - Empires & Interconnections. 2024.  

Striker, Spencer. Hermes Creative Awards, Platinum Winner - Best Use of Multimedia. 2024. 

Striker, Spencer. Viddy Awards: Gold Winner - Empires & Interconnections, Best Trailer. 2023. 

Wright, Zachary. Re-elected member, Council of Scholars, International African Institute, SOAS University of London, term 2024-2026.

Kazkaz, Rana. MacDowell Artists Residency. Peterborough, New Hampshire. Summer 2023.

Meekings, Sam. Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Global Collaboration Grant, Northwestern University. Grant Funding. 2024.   

Mohsin, Anto. Buffett Institute for Global Affairs Faculty Fellowship, Northwestern University. Grant Funding. 2023-2024.

Mohsin, Anto. Faculty Competitive External Fellowship Support Grant, Northwestern University. Grant Funding. 2023-2024. 

Mohsin, Anto. Institute for Advanced Study for Science, Technology, and Society (IAS-STS) Visiting Fellowship, Graz University of Technology. Grant Funding. 2024. 

Pike, Kirsten. Faculty Summer Writing Retreat Research Grant, Northwestern University. Grant Funding. 2023.    

Pike, Kirsten. Major Scholarly Project Completion Fellowship. Fellowship. 2023.  

Pike, Kirsten. Provost Grant for Career Development & Writing Support, Northwestern University; Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era. Grant Funding. 2023.  

Pike, Kirsten. Provost Grant for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts, Northwestern University; Girls' Media in the Women's Liberation Era. Grant Funding. 2023.          

Striker, Spencer. Alumnae of Northwestern University Grant; Global Pandemics. Grant Funding. 2023.   

Striker, Spencer. Dean’s Merit-Based Faculty Supplementary Support Fund, Northwestern University in Qatar. Grant Funding. 2023.  

Striker, Spencer. Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South Research Grant, Northwestern University in Qatar. Grant Funding. 2023.   

Striker, Spencer. Major Creative Project Completion Grant, Northwestern University in Qatar. Grant Funding. 2023.   

Striker, Spencer. National Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Program, The U.S. National Science Foundation. Grant Funding. 2023.   

Striker, Spencer. Provost Grant for Career Development & Writing Support, Northwestern University. Grant Funding. 2023.    

Striker, Spencer. Provost Grant for Research in Humanities, Social Sciences and the Arts, Northwestern University; Game-Based Learning. Grant Funding. 2023.  

Abusharif, Ibrahim. “Why is Israel Getting Away with Killing So Many Journalists in Gaza?” TRT World. 4 January 2024.   

Abusharif, Ibrahim. Podcast: "Unlearning Western Bias in Journalism. November 6, 2023. Afikra عفكرة Podcast, hosted by Mikey Muhanna.  

Jin, Venus. Northwestern Buffett Institute Breaking Boundaries Podcast: “The Impact of AI on Consumer Decision-Making.”

Jin, Venus. “Transformative AI: Human-AI Interaction in the Evolving Media Landscape.” Masterclass at the Web Summit Qatar 2024.

Paschyn, Christina. “Doha Street Artist Mubarak Al-Malik’s Fabulous Journey.” The Markaz Review. 2 April 2023.  

Paschyn, Christina. “Postcard from Qatar: How the West Misunderstood the World Cup.” The World Today Magazine, Chatham House. 2 June 2023.  

Paschyn, Christina. “Queer Khaleejis and Western Biases—Individual freedom at stake.” The Markaz Review. 26 June 2023.  

Paschyn, Christina. “The Gulf states have the power to revive two-state solution”. The World Today Magazine, Chatham House. 2 February 2024.  

Paschyn, Christina. “Universities strive to reduce inequalities for disabled students.” University World News. 25 November 2023.   

Safla-Gaffoor, Scheherazade, “Creating Dialogue to Help Spur Political Action.” Interview with Feraye Ozfescioglu, World Humanitarian Forum CEO. Doha Viewpoint. Februrary 2024.

Safla-Gaffoor, Scheherazade, “The Challenges of Working with Victims of Domestic Violence in Refugee Camps.” Interview with Iris Luarasi, Director of Counselling Line for Women. Doha Viewpoint. March 2024.

Striker, Spencer. Back to the Future of Education, Center for Talent Development, Ed Finkel, May 23, 2023. 

Striker, Spencer. Channel 37 Podcast Interview; AI & the Future of Transformative Technology.

Tayeb, Leila. “Ambivalent Africanism.” Red Pepper. 13 November 2023 

Tayeb, Leila. Podcast: Maghrib in Past & Present Podcast, Episode 159: “Mobility, Memory, and the performance of Bousaadiya in Libya.”

Akdenizli, Banu, "Public Diplomacy in Other Words: Turkish." International Conference on Public Diplomacy. Korean Association for Public Diplomacy (Seoul, Korea). November 2023.  

Akdenizli, Banu, "The FIFA World Cup and Digital Diplomacy: Embassies and Twitter Use." International Communication Association (Toronto, Canada). May 2023.   

Allagui, Ilhem, “A meta-discourse about big data in the GCC countries.” New Media and Innovation Conference. Zurich University (Zurich, Switzerland). June 2023.  

Allagui, Ilhem, “Harnessing Big Data in the GCC region for social and economic change.” Media and social change in the GCC. Qatar University (Doha, Qatar). May 2023.  

Allagui, Ilhem, Ibahrine, Mohammad, Bouziane, Z., “Branding Arab media organizations.” International Media Management Academic Association Conference (Ifrane, Morocco). October 2023.    

Allagui, Ilhem, Luppert, R., Klimmt, C., “Digital generation divides in the MENA region: Social inequalities in news consumption within and between rich and poor countries.” International Communication Association Conference (Toronto, Canada). May 2023.   

Allagui, Ilhem, “MENA brands in the metaverse. A commercial perspective.” International Media Management Academic Association Conference (Ifrane, Morocco). October 2023.  

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Deep Colonialism in Palestine.” Abu-Lughod Institute of International Studies, Birzeit University (Birzeit, Palestine). June 2023.  

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Deep Colonialism in Palestine.” Arab Center for Research and Policy Studies (Doha, Qatar). October 2023.  

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Hamas before and after October 2023.” Birzeit University (Virtual). December 2023.  

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Palestinian resistance against the Zionist project: Unstable contexts.” Masar Forum for Democracy and Modernity (Virtual). December 2023.  

Al-Hroub, Khaled, “Palestine: One-sided news reporting and the perils of biased journalism.” Qatar Foundation (Doha, Qatar). November 2023.  

Al Hroub, Khaled, “Should the EU engage with Hamas?” The European Studies Center, Pittsburgh University (Virtual). January 2024 

Al-Noaimi, Haya, “Narratives of Protection: Gendered Power Structures and Statecraft in Qatar and the UAE.” Centre for Gulf Studies, University of Exeter (Exeter, England). February 2024.  

Al-Noaimi, Haya, “Un/Settling Sovereignty: Piracy, Protection, and Self-Determination in the 1800s Arab Gulf.” Territories, Peoples, Nations: Decolonial Approaches to Foundational Concepts in Political Theory. Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar (Doha, Qatar). January 2024. 

Bergere, Clovis, “From Diglossia to Multilingualism in African Studies: Reflections from Guinea.” NUQ-RU Global Language, Mobility and Knowledge Production in the New Era Symposium. Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto, Japan). July 2023.  

Bergere, Clovis, “Histoires Conjointes de la Jeunesse et du Numérique.” Symposium sur le numérique. Université de Labé (Hafia, Guinea). December 2023.  

Bergere, Clovis, “Jeunesse de l’Axe: Securing Youth, Digital Technologies, and Urban Space in Conakry, and beyond.” 6th Arab Council for the Social Sciences Conference (Beirut, Lebanon). May 2023.  

Bergere, Clovis, “We Will Not Follow You Like Sheep”: Literacy, Officialdom, and Generational Politics in the Digital Age.” WISER Seminar Paper Series. Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER), University of Witwatersrand (Johannesburg, South Africa). April 2023.  

Borges-Rey, Eddy, “Empowering Citizens Through Data Literacy: The Transformative Power of Data Champions Programmes and Government-Citizen Collaboration.” Doha Data Forum for Inclusive Data Ecosystems and Effective Decision Making. Planning and Statistics Authority (Doha, Qatar). October 2023. 

Celikkol, Yasemin, Garg, Sashreek, “The Popular Geopolitics of Turkish TV Series in India.” Domino Lecture Series. Istanbul Bilgi University (Toronto, Canada). May 2023.  

Celikkol, Yasemin, Issa, Fairuz,” Turkish TV Series in Spain.” International Communication Association (Toronto, Canada). May 2023.  

Celikkol, Yasemin, “Japanese Digital Citizen Diplomacy in Turkey.” Middle East Studies Association (Montréal, Canada). November 2023. 

Celikkol, Yasemin, “The Global Soft Power Gains of Turkish TV Series.” Turkologentag 2023. University of Vienna (Vienna, Austria). September 2023.  

Imbuwa, In’utu, Celikkol, Yasemin, “Chitenge Class and Culture.” International Communication Association (Toronto, Canada). May 2023.  

Fedtke, Jana, “ChatGPT as Posthuman Assemblage: Rethinking Authorship in the Age of AI.” Writing, Thinking, and Learning with AI: Exploring Relationships of Rhetoric and Artificial Intelligence. SUNY Council on Writing and the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stony Brook University (Stony Brook, New York). October 2023.  

Fedtke, Jana, “Data Justice in Digital Education.” 3rd Data Justice Conference. Data Justice Lab, Cardiff University (Cardiff, Wales). June 2023.   

Fedtke, Jana, “Decentralized Crypto Power as Africanfuturism in Trust.” Annual Convention of the MLA (San Francisco, CA). January 2024.  

Ibahrine, Mohammad, Allagui, Ilhem, Zaid, B., “Media Brands: Adaptation or Innovation Strategies? The Challenges of Public and Private Media Organizations in Qatar, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Morocco in some Arab Media Cultures.” International Media Management Academic Association Conference (Ifrane, Morocco). October 2023.   

Ibahrine, Mohammad, Robinson, F., “Teaching Effectuation with LEGO, the Building Blocks of Creativity.” 8th Effectuation Conference: Building the Global Effectual Classroom (Gdansk, Poland). November 2023.    

Jaber, Heather, "Leveraging nationalist paranoia: Digital activism, the kafala system, and This is Lebanon.” Twenty-First Century Media? Affective Bodies, Crowds and Collectives. ICAS:MP. (Delhi, India). March 2023.   

Jaber, Heather, "Mobilizing Arab TikTok for YouTube: Juxtaposing good and bad cringe in postrevolutionary times." Association of Internet Researchers (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania). October 2023.    

Jaber, Heather, “Recoding the national: A digital media analytic for the Global South.” Arab Media and Information Studies Virtual Seminar. Institute for the Advanced Study of the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar (Virtual). October 2023. 

Jin, S. Venus, “Assessing Qatari Emerging Media Engagement: A Study of How AR, VR and Other Emerging Media Are Being Utilized in Qatar.” Qatar Research Development and Innovation Council Research Outcome Seminar. Qatar National Research Fund (Doha, Qatar). November 2023.  

Jin, S. Venus, “In AI and Metaverse We (Dis)Trust?.” Research and Creative Scholarship Colloquium. Northwestern University in Qatar (Doha, Qatar). September 2023:  

Pavlik, J., Jin, S. Venus, Lari, N., & Iyer, S. R., “Virtual influencer engagement: Findings from a national survey in Qatar.” International Association for Media and Communication Research (Lyon, France). July 2023.   

Youn, S., & Jin, S. Venus, “Drivers and outcomes of brand chatbot adoption and use: Examining the roles of motivations and social presence.” 21st International Conference on Research in Advertising (Bordeaux, France). June 2023.  

Khalil, Joe F., “The Digital Double Bind” Invited Book Talk at the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Washington DC, March 2024.

Khalil, Joe F., “The Digital Double Bind: Politics, Power and Platforms,” Invited lecture at the Institute for Middle East Studies at George Washington University, Washington DC, March 2024.  

Khalil, Joe F., “Global Communication and Area Studies: Insights from the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East,” a book talk organized by The Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) and Annenberg Center for Collaborative Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, at the Graduate Center, New York, November 2023. 

Khalil, Joe F., “The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East,” a book panel talk organized by Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies New York University (NYU) and the Middle East and Middle East American Center, City University of New York (CUNY), at the Graduate Center, New York, October  2023.

Khalil, Joe F., “The Middle East’s Digital Turn: Reconfigurations and Disjunctures,” paper presented at the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) annual conference, Montreal, November 2023. 

Khalil, Joe F., “Networked Publics and Digital Imaginaries,” paper presented at the 24th Annual Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), Philadelphia, October 2023. [with M. Zayani]

Khamis, Iman, “A Study Using GPT-3 to Predict an AI-Based Scenario for the Future of Libraries.” 3ʳᵈ IFLA IT Section Artificial Intelligence Symposium (Potchefstroom, South Africa). September 2023.    

Kozman, Claudia, Mellado, C., “The case for a diverse region: Mapping journalistic role performances across five Arab countries.” International Communication Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Annual Conference (Washington, D.C.). August 2023.  

Kozman, Claudia, “Quantitative Research Methods Masterclass.” Southern Digitalities. Arab and Information Studies Theory and Method Institute, Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar (Doha, Qatar).

Kraidy, Marwan, “Beyond Tradition and Modernity: A Nexus Approach Social Change.” International Conference on Media and Social Change in the Gulf Cooperation Council. Qatar University (Doha, Qatar). May 2023. 

Kraidy, Marwan, “Digital Pyropoesis: The Dish and the Flame in Islamic State’s Universe.” Middle East and North African Studies Program, Northwestern University (Evanston). November 2023. 

Kraidy, Marwan, “South-West Flows: What German Communication Research can Learn from Arab Media Studies.” PreConference of the DGPuK Annual Conference 2024 on Internationalizing German Communication Studies. German Communication Association (Erfurt, Germany). March 2024.

Meekings, Sam, “Fragmentation and Reforging of Identity in Recent British Grief Memoirs.” IABA Europe 2023: Life-Writing in Times of Crisis (Warsaw, Poland). July 2023. 

Meekings, Sam, “Writing Trauma.” 2023 Great Writing International Creative Writing Conference. University College London (London, England). July 2023.   

Mekawy, Yasmeen. “Living with the State in Egypt.” Middle Eastern Studies Association (Montreal, Canada). November 2023.  

Menge, Torsten, “An Ecological Account of Power.” Social Ontology 2023 (Stockholm, Sweden). August 2023.  

Menge, Torsten, “Decolonial Conceptions of Territory, Sovereignty, and Self-determination.” Manchester Centre for Political Theory Workshops. University of Manchester (Manchester, England). August 2023. 

Menge, Torsten, “How Far Does Occupancy Extend? Global Supply Chains, Foreign Land Acquisitions, and Territorial Control.” MANCEPT Workshops in Political Theory. University of Manchester (Manchester, England). September 2023.  

Menge, Torsten, “Territories, Peoples, Nations: Decolonial Approaches to Foundational Concepts in Political Theory.” Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar (Doha, Qatar). January 2024. 

Mishra, Rajiv Kumar, “Body, Identity, and the Living 'Dead': Conundrums of Digital Health and 'Welfare' in India.” Workshop The Political Determinants of Health - 10 Years On. University of Oslo (Oslo, Norway). January 2024.  

Mishra, Rajiv Kumar, “In Technology Thou Shall Find Recourse! State, Imaginaries and Tales of Health ‘Welfare’ from India.” Workshop of Global Sociology and Qualitative Research Network focused on Health, Gender and Sexuality. University of La Plata (Buenos Aires, Argentina). November 2023.  

Mohsin, Anto, “Producing Autonomous Environmental History Scholarship.” Decolonizing nature-as-subject: sites, histories, and legacies of environmental knowledge production in Southeast Asia Workshop (Yogyakarta, Indonesia). August 2023.  

Mohsin, Anto, “Servicing Transmission Lines and the State: The Story of High-Status Electrical Maintainers in Indonesia.” STS-CH Conference (Basel, Switzerland). September 2023.  

Mohsin, Anto, “Where is local science news? The over-dependence on foreign science sources in Qatari media and its implications.” Future of Journalism Conference (Cardiff, Wales). September 2023. 

Mokhtar, Shehram, "From Melodrama to Action Heroines: Pakistani Commercial Cinema in the 1960s and 1970s." The 14th Asia Conference of Media, Communication and Film (Kyoto Japan). October 2023.  

Pike, Kirsten, “Loving Buddy Lawrence: Queer Pleasures in 1970s Television.” The Girl in Theory: Toward a Critical Girlhood Studies Symposium. Department of Childhood Studies and the Gender Studies Program, Rutgers University (Virtual).

Striker, Spencer, “Breakthrough Technology Innovation in Education: An iPad App to Ignite Curiosity for Learning History.” QS Reimagine Education Conference. Khalifa University (Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates). December 2023.  

Striker, Spencer, “Empires & Interconnections for iPad: Challenging Students with Wicked Problems in History.” International Big History Association Conference (Coldigioco, Italy). July 2023.  

Striker, Spencer, “History Adventures - Digital Learning Reimagined.” Web Summit Qatar (Doha, Qatar). February 2023.  

Striker, Spencer, “Multimodal Narrative Design for Digital Learning.” Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Alliance and Collaboratory Conference. Pratt Institute (Brooklyn, New York). June 2023.  

Striker, Spencer, “Role of Technology in Improving Learning and Delivery of Education.” Future of Education Summit (Doha, Qatar). February 2024.

Striker, Spencer, “Storytelling, Multimodality, & Digital Learning Design for the New Generations.” QS Higher Ed Summit: Middle East & Africa, Kuwait, March 2024.  

Tayeb, Leila, “Building the Jamahiriya: Gaddafi’s Islamic Call in Africa.” African Studies Association Annual Meeting (San Francisco, California). November 2023.   

Tayeb, Leila, “Digital Intimacy and Violence in Contemporary Libya.” Arab Media and Information Studies Virtual Seminar. Institute for the Advanced Study of the Global South, Northwestern University in Qatar (Virtual). November 2023.  

Tayeb, Leila, “Men Antum: Popular Music and Race in the Libyan Revolution.” Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Meeting (Ottawa, Canada). November 2023.  

Wright, Zachary, “Islamic Scholarship in Songhay Beyond Timbuktu.” Muslim Intellectuals in West Africa. African Studies Association Annual Conference (San Francisco, CA). November 2023.  

Wright, Zachary, “Muhammad Bello, Umar Tal, and the Tijaniyya in the early Sokoto Caliphate.” History of Islamic Learning and Scholarship in Africa. Ahmadu Bello University (Kaduna, Nigeria). June 2023.