Draft:Dina Matar

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Dina Matar
Alma mater
EmployerSOAS University of London

Dina Matar is a professor of political communication and Arab Media at SOAS University of London's Centre for Global Media and Communication, with a focus on Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. She chairs the Centre for Palestine Studies and sits on the British Palestinian Committee. Prior to academia, Matar was a news correspondent, editor, and analyst.

Education[edit]

Matar did her undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Chemistry at the University of Jordan. She went on to complete a Master of Science (MSc) in Comparative Politics in 1999 and a PhD in Media and Communication in 2005, both from the London School of Economics (LSE).

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Books[edit]

  • What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (2010)
  • Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine (2013), editor with Zahera Harb
  • The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (2014), with Lina Khatib and Atef Alshaer
  • Gaza as Metaphor (2016), editor with Helga Tawil-Souri

Chapters and essays[edit]

  • "Hassan Nasrallah: The cultivation of image and language in the making of a charismatic leader" in Culture, Communication & Critique (2015)
  • "First Framing and News: Lessons from Reporting Jordan in Crises" in Reporting the Middle East: The Practices of News in the Twenty-First Century (2017)
  • "PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts" in Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (2018)
  • "The Syrian Regime's Strategic Communication: Practices and Ideology" in International Journal of Communication (2019)
  • "Liminality; gendering and Syrian alternative media spaces" in Spaces of War, War of Spaces (2020), with Khouloud Helmi
  • "The PLO's political communication arena; struggle over media legitimacy and domination" in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2022)

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Category:Academics of SOAS University of London Category:Alumni of the London School of Economics Category:British Arabists Category:British mass media scholars Category:Communication scholars Category:Middle Eastern studies scholars Category:University of Jordan alumni