Tourya Guaaybess Editor & Author

Joe F. Khalil, Associate Professor of Global Media and Communication, Northwestern University in Qatar. His research and teaching straddle legacy, alternative, and emerging media. He is the co-author of Arab Television Industries and co-editor of Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab World.

Gholam Khiabany, Reader in Media and Communications, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. His academic career has focused on the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices. He is the author of Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity and co-author of Blogistan, and Media, Democracy and Social Change; he is also co-editor of Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits; and After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech.

Tourya Guaaybess, Associate Professor, Research Centre on Mediations (CREM), University of Lorraine, France. She was a Marie Curie Fellow at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies and Visiting Researching at the University of Oxford. She has published numerous books and articles on the political economy of media and journalism in the Arab world.

Bilge Yesil, Associate Professor of Media Culture, College of Staten Island; Doctoral Faculty of Middle Eastern Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Her research interest is in global communication and media. She is the author of Video Surveillance: Power and Privacy in Everyday Life and Media in New Turkey: The Origins of an Authoritarian Neoliberal State.