Marwan Kraidy, "Creative Insurgency & Media Industries: Post-Revolutionary Paths"

Marwan M. Kraidy is Professor of Communication, the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture, and the Founding Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication (CARGC) at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where he is also affiliated with the Middle East Center. A scholar of global communication and an authority on Arab media, politics and culture, he studies the relationship between culture and geopolitics, theories of identity and modernity, and global media systems and industries. Kraidy has published 13 books and edited volumes, penned 130 essays and chapters, won more than 50 awards for teaching and scholarship, delivered keynote addresses and named lectures worldwide, and advised universities, civil society organizations, museums, foundations, and governments. Most recently, he published The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World (Harvard UP), co-edited American Studies Encounters the Middle East (UNC Press, with Alex Lubin), and co-authored Global Media Studies (Polity Press, with Toby Miller).