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TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORKDOHANorthwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) has hired eight new academics to join its growing faculty. The new faculty comprises media industry experts and scholars, including the school’s first Qatari professor.Marwan M Kraidy, dean and CEO of NU-Q, welcomed the incoming professors and stated that they will raise the school’s academic profile. “Each of these professors has a great educational background and scholarship,” Kraidy said. “They will improve the academic atmosphere and add to Northwestern Qatar’s global influence by collaborating with our current faculty.”The new faculty members have teaching and research experience in media, journalism, social sciences and the humanities. The new faculty includes academics from the Liberal Arts Program, the Communication Program, and the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program, with two holding combined appointments.Joining the Communication Program with dual positions in the Liberal Arts Program incluide Leila Tayeb who earned her PhD in performance studies from Northwestern University. Tayeb investigates cultural politics and the performativity of political life in dramatic and quotidian situations, with a focus on the daily lives of people in urban conflict settings. Tayeb worked as a research fellow at New York University in Abu Dhabi before joining Northwestern Qatar as an assistant professor in residence.The professors joining the Journalism and Strategic Communication program include: Fatima El-Issawi who was a reader in journalism and media studies at the University of Essex’s Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre Studies before joining Northwestern Qatar as an associate professor in residence. Her research focuses on the convergence of Arab media sectors, global journalism, journalistic practices, and media policy in the Global South.Claudia Kozman, who is a former sports writer, has joined Northwestern Qatar as an assistant professor in residence from Lebanon American University. Her research studies the interaction between journalism and politics in the Middle East and North Africa region, with an emphasis on journalistic responsibilities, media coverage, and source patterns. Marda Dunsky is a print journalist and journalism professor whose work uses narrative storytelling to investigate underreported facets of the Israel-Palestine conflict. Dunsky is the author of Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Reports the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict and Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience. Dunsky is an assistant professor in residence at Northwestern Qatar.The Liberal Arts Program, which offers students an integrated education in the arts and social sciences, will welcome the following new faculty members:Haya Al Noaimi, who is Northwestern Qatar’s first Qatari professor. Al Noaimi is a graduate of Georgetown University in Qatar, where she also completed a post-doctoral study.Yasmeen Mekawy is an assistant professor in residence at Northwestern Qatar after completing a post-doctoral teaching fellowship in the Department of Political Science at the University of Chicago, where she also got her PhD in political science. Jana Fedtke is a researcher with interests in science and technology in fiction, transnational literatures, gender studies, postcolonial theory, and film with a focus on South Asia and Africa. Fedtke earned her PhD in comparative literature from the University of South Carolina and joins Northwestern Qatar from her position at the American University of Sharjah.
