Draft:Dina Matar

Dina Matar is a professor of political communication and Arab Media at SOAS University of London's Centre for Global Media and Communication, with a focus on Palestine, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria. She chairs the Centre for Palestine Studies and sits on the British Palestinian Committee. Prior to academia, Matar was a news correspondent, editor, and analyst.

Education
Matar did her undergraduate Bachelor of Science (BSc) in Chemistry at the University of Jordan. She went on to complete a Master of Science (MSc) in Comparative Politics in 1999 and a PhD in Media and Communication in 2005, both from the London School of Economics (LSE).

Career
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Books

 * What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (2010)
 * Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine (2013), editor with Zahera Harb
 * The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (2014), with Lina Khatib and Atef Alshaer
 * Gaza as Metaphor (2016), editor with Helga Tawil-Souri

Chapters and essays

 * "Hassan Nasrallah: The cultivation of image and language in the making of a charismatic leader" in Culture, Communication & Critique (2015)
 * "First Framing and News: Lessons from Reporting Jordan in Crises" in Reporting the Middle East: The Practices of News in the Twenty-First Century (2017)
 * "PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts" in Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East (2018)
 * "The Syrian Regime's Strategic Communication: Practices and Ideology" in International Journal of Communication (2019)
 * "Liminality; gendering and Syrian alternative media spaces" in Spaces of War, War of Spaces (2020), with Khouloud Helmi
 * "The PLO's political communication arena; struggle over media legitimacy and domination" in British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (2022)