Helga Tawil-Souri
Helga Tawil-Souri is a Palestinian-American media scholar and documentary filmmaker. Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University, an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication, and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in :Category:Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon|Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.
"i.so.chro.nism: " was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.
Tawil-Souri's research has focused on Americanization of the Palestinian Territories through Internet development. One of her book chapters was adapted into a seminar on information society and multiculturalism at Yeungnam University.
She was noted in a review of another book chapter for challenging some of the traditional theoretical assumptions in discussions of global communications. Her addressing of controversial issues about politics and video games has been the subject of discussion in the media.
Tawil-Souri is on the Editorial Board of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, an academic peer reviewed journal published by Brill.
Tawil-Souri was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit along with Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Ted Turner, Lance Armstrong, Geena Davis and Mary Robinson. The Summit was sponsored by Mashable and the United Nations Foundation, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in September, 2011 and brought together global leaders to discuss the most challenging problems facing humanity.Articles
- , International Journal of Cultural Studies 16: 1-16, 2011.
- , Social Text 107: 67-97, 2011.
- , In Mahrene Larudee, Gaza: Out of the Margins, 2011.
- , Re-Public 4, 2010.
- , Space and Culture 14: 4-26, 2011.
- , Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture 2: 181-185, Fall 2009.
- , International Journal of Cultural Studies 12: 217-235, 2009.
- , Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27: 536-551, Fall 2007.
- , Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4: 4-25, September 2007.
- , Development 49: 75-80, March 2006.
- , Nebula 2: 113-140, June 2005.
Documentary Films
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- Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here