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Thanks to the great Anne Kaun for allowing me to perform the hand gestures I've been practicing for the past five years! 👐🤝

Good stuff...good stuff... #ica23 #ica_acsj

Huge congratulations to incoming #IAS_NUQ postdoctoral scholar Chafic T. Najem for winning the ICA Activism, Communication & Social Justice IG Outstanding Dissertation Award at #ICA23! Northwestern Qatar

It seems I have missed out on a lot of fun, but I'm very happy for my supervisors! #ica23 #ica_acsj

An itsy bitsy teaser of something that may or may not be coming out by the end of June...

Did you know that PANOPTIKUM journal's latest issue, "New Approaches to Documentary", features an article by yours truly?! czasopisma.bg.ug.edu.pl/index.php/pano…

Working on Arab media? You might want to consider this! qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias_n…

Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South CARGC For the second presentation, we have Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South postdocs Mariam Karim and Chafic T. Najem presenting on editor, post, and activist Marie Ajami, .. and how mass communication can act as a pedagogical tool that serves the people against oppression CARGC #ICA24

While Yasmeen Mekawy ياسمين مكاوي presented "Rewriting History: State Propaganda and Digital Media in the Politics of Revolutionary Memory," Chafic T. Najem highlighted "Arab Prisons as Media Laboratories: Tracing Illicit Communication Practices in the Arab World." Stay tuned!

Congrats Anne Kaun 🙌

Day 4 of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA24! Chafic T. Najem presented his research paper titled "Prison Media Mobilization: Smuggled Cellphones and Illicit Media Practices in Lebanese Incarceration" as part of Activism, Community Mobilization, and Social Justice panel. Stay tuned!

The semester is off to a great start. Students came wondering about documentary, left questioning the very essence of reality. Currently taking bookings for children’s parties... existential crises included.

a piece on Cell Phones Behind Bars in Lebanon I put together for MERIP 312 Fall Issue ‘Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams’ merip.org/2024/10/cell-p…

Artwork by Yassin Mohamed Yassin

Editor's Picks: Our issue editors and editorial committee helped assemble a list of prison literature and film from the Middle East and North Africa. For those who want to read more, or need help putting together a syllabus, this is a helpful guide! bit.ly/3Nrjbkj

"Within Lebanon’s prisons, cell phones influence how prisoners organize, how they strategize about the objectives of actions like hunger strikes and how they capture and share these with broader audiences." Chafic T. Najem in the latest Middle East Report bit.ly/3YqcFAH

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We closed the day with Panel 59: Film Screening 3, chaired by #IAS_NUQ Global Postdoctoral Scholar Chafic T. Najem. The screening featured: • I’m Afraid to Forget Your Face (Sameh Alaa, Egypt) • Ayyur/Moon (Zineb Wakrim, Morocco)

It was a pleasure working with CCC on this publication!