Nabil
Echchaibi is assistant professor of
journalism and media studies and associate director of the Center for
Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder. His
research is situated at the crossroad of important contemporary issues
such as identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and
reflecting modern religious subjectivities among Muslims in the Middle
East and in diaspora. His work on diasporic media and the leveling of
religious authority through the proliferation of Islamic media has
appeared in various international publications such as Javnost,
International Communication Gazette, Journal of Intercultural Studies,
Nations and Nationalism, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, and
Media Development.
Dr. Echchaibi is currently working on his book, Formations of the Muslim Modern: Islam, Media and Alternative Modernity, which explores how Muslims engage, through their own media production, modernity as a source of both contention and identification. Using a multilayered analysis of six case studies of Muslim media in Cairo, Los Angeles, Dubai, San Francisco, London, and Austin, the book examines how transnational satellite television and digital media have become prime discursive and performative stages where young individuals and institutions debate and contest what it means to be “modern” in the Muslim context. |  |
Dr. Echchaibi is also directing a project funded by the
Social Science Research Council, which will compile a cultural history
of Muslims in the Mountain region of the United States. The project
will produce an interactive web resource and a documentary film. His
book Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture
and Renewal is forthcoming with Lexington Books in 2011. His co-edited
book International Blogging : Identity, Politics and Networked Publics
was published in 2009 by Peter Lang Publishing. Prior to joining CU,
Dr. Echchaibi taught at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland, where
he helped set up the international communication department, the
University of Louisville and Indiana University-Bloomington. A native of
Morocco, he earned his BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and his
MA and PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington.
