Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Bei...
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. Focusing on the intersection of literature, media, and politics in the modern Middle East and North Africa, Greenberg is the author of several books including most r...
Spring 2024 -
Hatim El-Hibri Middle East Media and Screen CulturesThis course introduces key concepts in the study of film and media from the Middle East, and examines the cultural and political contexts that have given shape to a range of historical and contemporary voices. Rather than a comprehensive survey of the varied cultu...
Fall 2024 -
Joan C. Bristol This course examines trends in historical analysis and focuses primarily on the work of
twentieth- and twenty-first-century scholars working in the United States. Although most of the texts we read deal with early modern Europe, Africa, and the Americas, this class is focused on historiography rathe...
Yousef Munayyer's research interests are in repression and dissent dynamics, state/civil society relations, decision making in foreign policy and Israel/Palestine. He has published in both the mainstream media and policy and academic journals on these topics. Munayyer received his Ph.D. in Government...
Bassam Haddad is the Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University...
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Academic Calendar Dates for Spring 2024
Last Day to Add: January 23 (Full semester)
Last Day to Drop with 100% Refund: January 30 (Full semester)
Core Courses
GLOA 600: Global Competencies (alternative o...
Status، الوضع, is an evolving critical, collaborative, and independent monthly Audio Journal combining analysis, reporting, and satire, comprised mainly of hard-hitting interviews/conversations, on-the-scene reports, reviews, informed commentary, and readings. Interviews from the region and beyond w...
Below you will find various resources to assist you.
Middle East Studies News Outlets
Ahram OnlineAl Akhbar EnglishAl ArabiyaAl JazeeraAl-Jazeera EnglishAl-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt)Al-Nahar (Lebanon)All Africa.comArab Media and Society (Egypt)Arab News (Saudi Arabia)Azzaman (Iraq)Bahrain TribuneBBC Ar...
Below you will find various resources to assist you.
Middle East Studies News Outlets
Ahram OnlineAl Akhbar EnglishAl ArabiyaAl JazeeraAl-Jazeera EnglishAl-Masry Al-Youm (Egypt)Al-Nahar (Lebanon)All Africa.comArab Media and Society (Egypt)Arab News (Saudi Arabia)Azzaman (Iraq)Bahrain TribuneBBC...