Sayfo Omar

SAYFO OMAR (PhD)

researcher

FIELDS OF RESEARCH:

Arab Media and Politics, Arab Media Industries, Arab Television, Arab Cinema, Arab Identity Politics, Popular Culture in the Arab World

Omar Sayfo obtained his PhD at Utrecht University in 2016. In 2014 he was a visiting researcher at the Center of Islamic Studies at the University of Cambridge. His main research focus is on media and politics in the Arab Middle East. He published extensively in edited volumes, and journals like The Journal of Popular Culture, Die Welt Des Islams, and International Journal of Communication. He also published articles in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, Huffington Post, and others. His first monograph was published in 2021 by Edinburgh University Press.

EDUCATION

2012–2016: PHD Studies: Utrecht University, Research Institute for History and Culture of the Faculty of Humanities
2003–2008: MA: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Társadalomtudományi Kar, Political Sciences
2002–2006: BA: Budapesti Kommunikációs Főiskola, Business communication
2002–2006: MA: Eötvös Loránd Tudományegyetem, Bölcsészettudományi kar, Arabic language and philology

RESERCH TRIPS, GRANTS:

2014: Guest researcher: University of Cambridge, HRH Prince Alwaleed bin Talal Centre for the Study of Islam in the Contemporary World

AFFILIATIONS

2020–: Researcher, Avicenna Közel-Kelet Kutatások Intézete
2019–: External consultant, Külügyi és Külgazdasági Intézet
2016–: Researcher, Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Utrecht University
2011–2013: Guest lecturer, Debreceni Egyetem, Média és Kommunikáció Tanszék, oktató kultúraközi kommunikáció és médiagazdaságtan tantárgyakban

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