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Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization (2025)
Book
Matar, D. (Ed.). (2025). Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755653850

A decade on from the Arab uprisings, debates continue to reiterate exceptionalist discourses about the region and its peoples which tend to deny individual agency. They also neglect long collective histories of mediated political cultures that have e... Read More about Reframing Political Communication and Media practices in the Middle East and North Africa: Towards decolonization.

Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians (2025)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (online). Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians. Third World Quarterly, https://doi.org/10.1080/01436597.2025.2462787

This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped defi... Read More about Habitual media: interrogating Western legacy media’s complicity in the epistemic ‘war’ against Palestinians.

What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction (2024)
Journal Article
Matar, D. (2024). What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17(3), 246-253. https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-01703001

In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by... Read More about What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction.

Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media (2024)
Book
Tawil-Souri, H., & Matar, D. (Eds.). (2024). Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. Bloomsbury. https://doi.org/10.5040/9780755654291

Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palesti... Read More about Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media.