Arab American Representations in Contemporary US Media | Panel Session | Sept 27, 2-4pm
The Department of Communication and Theatre Arts will host a panel session on "Arab American Representations in Contemporary US Media" with Susan Youssef, Dr. Kristian Petersen, and Shadi Bayadsy on Friday, September 27th from 2-4pm in BAL 9024.
This panel session is open to the public.
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Susan Youssef is the writer/director of two dramatic features, a documentary, and seven shorts that have been official selections of film festivals such as Venice, Toronto International, and Sundance, as well as have been programmed in museums including Tate Modern, New Museum, and Museum of Modern Art - New York. She is a Fulbright Fellow, Princess Grace Award Winner, and 21st Century Fox Director Fellow. Youssef has been a Guest Speaker at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, the State Department, and many other institutions around the world. Prior to filmmaking, she was a schoolteacher and journalist in Beirut.
Dr. Kristian Petersen is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy & Religious Studies at Old Dominion University. His intellectual interests include Theory and Method in the Study of Religion, Islamic Studies, Chinese Religions, and Media Studies. He is host of the “New Books in Religion and New Books in Islamic Studies” podcasts. He is the author of Interpreting Islam in China: Pilgrimage, Scripture, and Language in the Han Kitab (Oxford University Press, 2017). He is currently writing a monograph entitled The Cinematic Lives of Muslims and working as part of the team developing De Gruyter’s new series, Introductions to Digital Humanities: Religion.
Shadi Bayadsy is a Lecturer of World Languages and Cultures at Old Dominion University. Mr. Bayadsy graduated from the University of Texas, Austin with a master’s degree in Second Language Acquisition. Later, he completed his Ph.D. classes at Indiana University, Bloomington with a focus on the Middle East and the study of women’s non-governmental organizations in Israel. His research involves exploring the status of Palestinian women in Israel and their struggle against the patriarchal society and the state. The organizations researched, range from women’s, feminist and LGBT. These organizations receive their funding from international donors, which often times is faced with criticism and rejection from the local community. Another area of interest is socio-linguistics, in which the Palestinian dialect is analyzed within the Israeli context; interaction among Palestinians in Israel with speakers of Hebrew and its effects on their Arabic. Finally, Middle Eastern society, with its rich area of cultures and languages always adds to the depth and interest in continuing research of its varieties and contradictions.
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Posted By: Terra Ball
Date: Thu Sep 05 08:59:55 EDT 2019