Calendar Event
March 26, 2012, 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm
HC Faculty Fellows Symposia
Middle East media and cultural politics: digital occupation or digital revolution?
Amy Kallander, 2012 HC Faculty Fellow and Assistant Professor of History
Invited speaker:
Helga Tawil-Souri, Assistant Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
Amy Kallander came to Syracuse from the University of California, Berkeley where she earned a PhD in Middle East history in 2007. She teaches courses on the Ottoman Empire, the modern Middle East, Orientalism, Gender, Race and Colonialism, and Popular Culture in the Middle East. Her first book project is a social history of women and the family that governed Tunisia in the Ottoman period (18th and 19th centuries). Since the Tunisian Revolution she has turned to more contemporary events, current projects include bloggers and the Tunisian revolution, French support for Tunisian authoritarianism, women, family and representations of Tunisian modernity.
Helga Tawil-Souri is a writer, photographer, filmmaker, and a scholar of globalization, media technologies, and cultural expressions in the Middle East. She has written about the diversity of Arab media in relation to economic and political contexts, the importance of Palestinian cinema and music in creating a culture of resistance, and how technology serves as a means of control in the occupation of Gaza
Eggers Hall, Room 220
CO-SPONSORS: Department of History and Middle Eastern Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences; Executive Education and Leaders for Democracy Fellows Program in the Maxwell School
