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Naomi Sakr
Naomi Sakr is a professor of media policy at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, United Kingdom, where she researches Arab media systems and journalism in the context of international human rights. From 2013 to 2016 she led research into children’s screen content in the Arab region, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and in 2017–18 co-led an AHRC-funded project to engage media practitioners in a dialogue about the implications of forced migration from Arab countries to Europe for children’s content on European screens. She is the author of Transformations in Egyptian Journalism (2013), Arab Television Today (2007) and Satellite Realms: Transnational Television, Globalization and the Middle East (2001); co-author (with Jeanette Steemers) of Screen Media for Arab and European Children: Policy and Production Encounters in the Multiplatform Era (2019); editor of Women and Media in the Middle East (2004) and Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life (2007); and co-editor of Arab Media Moguls (2015) and Children’s TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Culture and Education (2017). She has been commissioned to write reports for UNESCO, the UN Development Programme (UNDP), International Media Support, Anna Lindh Foundation and the European Parliament.
Contact: School of Media and Communication, University of Westminster, Harrow Campus, Watford Road, Northwick Park, Harrow, HA1 3TP, UK.