Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi
About
Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at LSE, where he also serves as Deputy Head of Department (Education). He works on the geopolitics of global communications, particularly in relation to news media and popular culture. He is interested in the politics that shape the ways we talk about and use communications technologies, as well as the role of media in forging our imaginaries of the past and the future. In his research, he draws on his expertise on Arabic media and on the Middle East and North Africa region. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in communications, journalism and cultural studies journals including Communication Theory, Journalism, and the International Journal of Communication. He is currently completing a book on the politics of history in Arab media (in contract with Oxford University Press). Al-Ghazzi is an editor in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication.
Dr Al-Ghazzi earned his PhD from The Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds MAs in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and American University and a BA in Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University. Prior to joining LSE, he was Lecturer in Journalism at The University of Sheffield.
Expertise
Global Communication; Comparative Journalism; Digital Activism; Collective Memory; Popular Culture; Media & War; Middle East and North Africa