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New book alert! With over 40 contributions on media and culture in MENA

Documentarian Can Candan Can Candan (@cncndn.bsky.social) has been unjustly dismissed for the third time(!!) from his position at Boğaziçi University. We hosted Prof. Candan for a screening of Benim Çocuğum (My Child), and stand in solidarity. #KabulEtmiyorVazGeçmiyoruz #WeDoNotAcceptWeDoNotGiveUp

New book alert!

New book alert!

Post-doc opportunity!

Hülya Adak and Murat Akser's thought provoking article on Nuri Bilge Ceylan's Wild Pear Tree was Cambridge University Press's most downloaded article for July in Middle East Studies. Congratulations to our authors! And it is open access & available here. bit.ly/44LNaKD

New book alert!

My department at Rutgers is hiring. Happy to answer questions about the role. jobs.rutgers.edu/postings/209379

DC area folks: Join us next week for our first SAIS Media and Politics Initiative event of the year. Lisel Hintz hosts Colleen Wood on Wed Feb 7 from 4:45-6:00pm to discuss social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan. Reception follows. Register: eventbrite.com/e/social-media…

Join us tomorrow Feb 7 for our event on social media and democratic reform in Kazakhstan with Colleen Wood and Lisel Hintz! Link to register: eventbrite.com/e/social-media…

Call for papers! We are hosting a research workshop on media diversity and democracy on Friday, May 3rd. Abstracts due March 1st. Limited funding available to support grad student travel. Please circulate. Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.

DC area folks, join us at our next event! On Monday Feb 19, we host Samantha Majic to discuss her fascinating and important new book on celebrities' anti-trafficking activism. Lisel Hintz and Sarah Parkinson will moderate the event. Link to register: eventbrite.com/e/sais-media-a…

Abstracts due Friday for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3. Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available. Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.

Deadline extended for our Media Diversity and Democracy Workshop on May 3! Please submit abstracts by Friday March 15. Early career scholars of all disciplines encouraged to apply. Travel funding available. Details here: liselhintz.com/sais-mpi.html.

Join us Thursday March 28 at 5:30pm to discuss The Digital Double Bind with Prof. Joe F. Khalil. Rich, important insights on the interplay of information technology, people, and power that shaped the Middle East's digital turn. Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital-…

Join us today at 5:30pm! We're hosting Prof. Joe F. Khalil to unpack the digital turn in the Middle East. Co-hosted by our SAIS Media and Politics Initiative and the SAIS MENA Club SAIS Media & Politics MENA Club at SAIS Register: eventbrite.com/e/the-digital-…

Join us Johns Hopkins SAIS Thurs May 2nd at 5:30pm to discuss intersections of media diversity and democracy. Featuring William Lafi Youmans (GWU), Leanna Garfield is on Bluesky (GLAAD), Tamara Gilkes Borr (The Economist) and Amalia Córdova (Smithsonian). Lisel Hintz moderating. Register: eventbrite.com/e/media-divers…

OUT NOW! The first empirical article in our upcoming Special Issue on 'Transnational Queer Cultures and Digital Media'. It's about RuPaul Drag Race, Westernness & whiteness, by Zane Austin Willard 🏳️‍🌈 & Rachel E Dubrofsky. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

This looks to be a super interesting and important project on small social media platforms. Great to see research in this vein looking beyond big tech. European Research Council (ERC) is taking applications for four postdoc positions, check it out!

Deadline is Sept 2 to apply for a conference on visuality and violence hosted by AUB Media Studies.