Helga Tawil-Souri
Curriculum Vitae/Syllabi
- Syllabus: Seminar in Media, Culture, and Communication (Fall 2008)
- Syllabus: Islam, Media, and the West (Fall 2008)
- Curriculum Vitae (Summer 2009)
Helga Tawil Souri’s scholarship is on globalization, national development, media technologies and cultural expressions, especially contemporary media production and reception and their relationship to economic and political change in the Middle East. Based on ethnographic research conducted between 2001 and 2005, her current book project is on Internet Development in the Palestinian Territories. Her other research is on Arab and Palestinian broadcasting industries and cinema, and issues around social and political spaces of expression/resistance. She is also a photographer and documentary filmmaker.
On Leave 2009-2010
Research Interests
- Globalization, capitalism, development and dependency
- Middle East / Arab media (television, film, internet) and culture
- Contemporary Palestinian politics, media and culture
- Technology, modernity, and 'Islamic fundamentalism'
- Ethnographic research methods and ethnographic film-making
- Critical / cultural geography, space, and social theory
Courses
- Introduction to Media Studies
- Media and Globalization
- Communication and International Development
- Islam, Media, and the West
- Middle East Media and Cultural Politics (grad)
- Media, Culture, and Communication Core Seminar (grad)
- Media and Globalization: The European Experience (Amsterdam)
Degrees Held
- B.A.
McGill University (Canada)
English Literature & Economics - MA
University of Southern California
Annenberg School for Communication - Ph.D.
University of Colorado, Boulder
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
Publications
- Digital Occupation: Internet Development and Globalization in the Palestinian Territories (book in progress)
- Towards Palestinian Cultural Studies, Guest Editor. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 2(2), Fall 2009
- Orange, Green, and Blue: Palestinian ID Cards as Media and Material Artifacts in Surveillance and State of Exception: The Case of Israel/Palestine Eds. David Lyon, Elia Zureik, Yasmeen Abu-Laban, 2009
- New Palestinian Centers: An Ethnography of the ‘Checkpoint Economy’. International Journal of Cultural Studies 12(3): 217-235
- Arab Television in Academic Scholarship. Sociology COMPASS 2. August 2008
- The Political Battlefield of pro-Arab Videogames. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27 (3): 536-551. Fall 2007.
- Global and National Forces for a Nation-State Yet to be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies. Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4(3): 4-25. September 2007.
- Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons against peace. Development, 49 (2): 75-80. March 2006.
- Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making. Nebula 2(2): 113-140. June 2005.
- Americanizing Palestine through Internet Development. in Internationalizing Internet Studies, Eds. Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland, 2008.
- Move Over Bangalore. Here Comes… Palestine? Western Funding and ‘Internet Development’ in the Shrinking Palestinian State. in Global Communications: Toward a Transcultural Political Economy, Eds. Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao, 2007
Documentary Films
- Not Going There, Don't Belong Here. 2002
- i.so.chro.nism [twenty-four hours in jabaa]. 2004 (watch it on youtube)
- Qalandia. in-production
Editorial Boards
- Editorial Board Member, Reviews Editor. Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture
- Advisory Board Member, Nebula
- Editorial Board Member, Global Media: Critical Perspectives (book series)