My Curriculum Vitae:
EducationIndiana University - Bloomington
Ph.D. in Mass Communication, August, 2005
Dissertation title: Beyond the Ethnic Traces of Diaspora: Diasporic Radio in Paris and Berlin between Cultural Renewal and Retention.
Indiana University – Bloomington
M.A. in Journalism, May 1998
Thesis title: The Untested Role of Development Communication: Coverage of Regional News in Sub-Saharan Africa
Mohammed V University – Rabat, Morocco
B.A. in English literature and linguistics, June 1994
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
Assistant Professor University of Colorado-Boulder 2007-present
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Visiting Assistant Professor University of Louisville 2006-2007
Department of Communication
Visiting Assistant Professor Indiana University 2005-2006
School of Journalism.
Assistant Professor, Franklin College Switzerland, Lugano 2002-2005
Department of International Communication.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Islamic broadcasting in the Middle East and in diaspora; European integration and identity politics; minority media and migration in Western Europe; political economy of Arab satellite media industry; role of Arab transnational media as social institutions; new media and identity politics.
TEACHING INTERESTS
Communication theory; international media systems; globalization theory; journalism writing and editing; online journalism; ethnographic reporting; race in the media; popular culture of the Middle East; Islam and the media.
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
Accented Blogging: Reconceptualizing the Role of Blogs in an International Context. (Co-edited) with Peter Lang Publishing (December 2008)
Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Cultural Renewal and
Retention. Forthcoming with Lexington Books. (March 2009)
“From Audiotapes to Videoblogs: the Delocalization of Authority in Islam.” under review in Nations and Nationalism
“Republican Diasporas: Beur FM and the Suburban Riots in France.” Journal of Intercultural Studies 28 (3): 301-316
“Hyper-fundamentalism? Mediating Islam from the Halal website to the Islamic talk show.” 2009 spring issue of the Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research
“We Are French Too but Different: Radio, Music and the Articulation of Difference among Young North-Africans in France.” Gazette 63(4): 295-310.
“(Be)longing Media: Minority Radio between Cultural Retention and Renewal. The Case of Beur FM and Radio MultiKulti.” Javnost/The Public 9(1): 37-50
“From the Margins to the Center: New Media and the Case of Bondy Blog in France.” Forthcoming in A. Russell and N. Echchaibi. Accented Blogging: Reconceptualizing the Role of Blogs in an International Context.
Online and Feature Articles:
"Dans les pas des musulmans américains" Geo Magazine, 10/2009
“Who Speaks for the Arab World?” Media Development, 2/2007
“From the pulpit to the studio: Islam’s internal battle” Media Development, 1/2007
“When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Saudi Connection.” Flow 3(5)
“What the Arab World Should Be Watching." Flow 1(10)
SELECT CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS
“From Audiotapes to Videoblogs: the Delocalization of Authority in Islam” presented at the Second Global Studies Conference in Dubai May 30 to June 1, 2009
“New Islam and New Media: Fresh Directions in the Study of Islam” presented at Exploring New Media Worlds conference at Texas A&M University, February 29 to March 2, 2008.
“Hyper-fundamentalism? Mediating Islam from the Halal website to the Islamic talk
show.” presented at the 2008 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference.
Philadelphia March 6-9.
“Republican Diasporas: Beur FM and the Suburban Riots in France” presented at
the 2007 International Communication Association Conference, San Francisco.
“Cultural Studies and New Media: Blogging on Frenchness in the Suburbs: Bondy Blog and the Spiral of Identity in France” presented at the 2007 International Conference of Cultural Studies, London.*
“Blogging on Frenchness in the Suburbs: Bondy Blog and the Spiral of Identity in France” presented at the 2007 Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Chicago March 8-11
“From the pulpit to the studio: Iqra’ Television and the new face of Islamic preaching”
presented at the 2006 International Conference on Fundamentalism and the Media
University of Colorado at Boulder Oct. 10-12.
“Muslim Televangelists and the Repackaging of Islam” presented at the 2006 Middle East & Central Asia Politics, Economics, and Society Conference. University of Utah: Sept. 7-9, Salt Lake City
“When Mullahs Ride the Airwaves: Muslim Televangelists and the Re-Invention of Tradition.” presented at the Society for Cinema and Media Studies Conference in Vancouver, February 2006.
“French Identity and the Articulation of Cultural Pluralism and Difference: The Case of Beur FM” presented at the 2005 International Communication Association Conference, New York, May 26-30.
INVITED PRESENTATIONS
"New Islam and New Media: Fresh Directions in the Study of Islam" to be presented at the Sixth International Conference on Media, Religion, and Culture: Dialogues in Diversity” in Sao Paulo, Brazil, August 11-14, 2008.
“Médias & Nouvelles Générations Urbaines: Exclusions ou Intégration?” A forum on new media and the young urban generation in France. Paris: March 26, 2008.
“Blogs: Plus or Minus for (Good) Journalism?” Region 5 Conference of the Society of Professional Journalists April 20-21 Louisville, KY.
“Just Who Are Those Bloggers, Anyway?” Panel organized by The Louisville chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists Blogs and democracy Nov. 16 in Louisville, KY.
“Islamic Fundamentalism and the Media” Presented to the Honors Program at the University of Louisville Oct. 12, 2006.
“Migrant Radio and the Lure of Identity” Presented at the annual Cultural Studies Conference. Indiana University-Bloomington, February 11, 2006
“The International Broadcasting Opinion Wars: The Al-Jazeera Effect and Foreign Policy” presented at the 2004 International Media Industry Conference at The Universita della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, Switzerland, Nov. 20.
Participation in Panel on international newsgathering and the war in Iraq with Wall Street Journal and Financial Times correspondents in Italy, Franklin College. June 10, 2003
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
-International Communication Association (ICA)
-Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC)
-Society for Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS)
-Member of the Diasporic Media Research Group at the European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)
LANGUAGES
Arabic; French; English; Italian
