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‘Forced to report’: Affective proximity and the perils of local reporting on Syria
Journalism, volume 24, issue 2 (2023), pp. 280–294
"Based on interviews with Syrian media practitioners, this article uses the notion of affective proximity to make sense of local media practitioners’ reporting and witnessing of suffering in their country and community. I argue that the life-risking, and sometimes deadly, media practices of local
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The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East
New Jersey: Wiley Blackwell (2023), xvi, 550 pp.
"Rather than viewing the Middle East as a monolithic culture, this Handbook examines the diverse and multi-local characteristics of the region’s knowledge production, dynamic media, and rich cultures. It addresses a wide range of topics, including the evolving mainstream and alternative media, com
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Beyond Verification: Flesh Witnessing and the Significance of Embodiment in Conflict News
Journalism, volume 23, issue 3 (2022), pp. 649-667
"While the field of Journalism Studies has already engaged in rich debates on how to rethink the truth conditions of user-generated content (UGC) in platform journalism, we argue that it has missed out on the ethico-political function of UGC as testimonials of lives-at-risk. If we wish to recognize
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De-Centring Western Enlightenment: Revisionist Histories, Contestation and Communication Theory
Javnost: The Public, volume 25, issue 4 (2018), pp. 333-440
Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the Twenty-First Century
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London; New York: Tauris (2017), xii, 226 pp.
"Citizen Journalism" in the Syrian Uprising: Problematizing Western Narratives in a Local Context
Communication Theory, volume 24, issue 4 (2014), pp. 435-454
"This article analyzes the term 'citizen journalism' against the backdrop of the Arab uprisings in order to show how it overlooks the local context of digital media practices. The first part examines videos emanating from Syria to illustrate how they blur the lines between acts of witnessing, report
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Nation as Neighborhood: How Bab Al-Hara Dramatized Syrian Identity
Media, Culture & Society, volume 35, issue 5 (2013), pp. 586-601
"This article discusses a popular Syrian television drama series, Bab al-Hara (The Neighborhood Gate), which ran for five seasons (2006-10). It is part of a genre of television series called the "Damascene milieu," which nostalgically dramatizes life in imagined Damascene neighborhoods in the late 1
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