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Helga Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, Communication and the Department of Middle East and Islamic Studies at NYU Steinhardt. Her academic work focuses on technology, media, culture, and territorial politics, with a particular emphasis on Palestine. She has co-edited works such as 'Gaza Metaphor' (Hurst 2016) and 'Producing Palestine' (Bloomsbury 2024). Helga serves on the editorial boards of 'Social Text', 'Public Culture', and the 'Journal of Environmental Media'. Her research interests encompass a range of topics including checkpoints, borders, infrastructure, media telecommunications, and surveillance. Helga teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses covering borders and spatiality, Arab media, critical theory in media studies, the interplay of war and media, globalization, and public humanities. Her courses encourage students to analyze the evolving landscape of media technologies within cultural and social contexts, often examining specific commodities, such as coffee, to explore historical and contemporary issues affecting their production and trade. Helga's approach fosters an understanding of the contemporary dynamics shaping Middle Eastern media and cultural politics.
New York University Steinhardt • New York, NY
Teaching and conducting research in Media Studies and Middle Eastern studies.
Department of Media, Culture, and Communication - PhD Program focusing on Global and Transcultural Studies, Technology and Society, and Visual Culture.