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Fatima El-Issawi

Fatima El-Issawi is a reader in journalism and media studies at the University of Essex. Her research focuses on the intersection of media, politics and conflict in transitional contexts to democracy in North Africa. She is the principal investigator for the research project ‘Media and Transitions to Democracy: Journalistic Practices in Communicating Conflicts: The Arab Spring’, funded by the British Academy’s Sustainable Development Programme. Since 2012, she has been leading empirical comparative research projects on the interplay between media and political change covering Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya and Algeria. She has more than fifteen years of experience as an international correspondent in conflict zones in the Middle East and North Africa region. She is the author of the Arab National Media and Political Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016), which investigates the complex intersections between traditional journalists and politics in uncertain times of transitions to democracy in the Arab region.

Contact: University of Essex, Department of Literature, Film and Theatre Studies, Wivenhoe Park, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK.


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Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies
Principal Editor Jairo Lugo-Ocando Associate Editor (Special Issues) Sadia Jamil Associate Editor (Book Reviews) Brendan Lawson Editorial Assistant Peter Taylor Founding Editor Leon Barkho