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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Congratulations to all the winners of the @acls1919.bsky.social Open Access Book Prizes and Arcadia Open Access Publishing Awards!

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Calling scholars studying the Arab World or Latin America! Apply for the ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship by Sept. 17, 5PM. Special interest in supporting comparative or transnational approaches. Learn more:: bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

The ACLS @mkraidy.bsky.social and Ute Kraidy Centennial Fellowship in the Study of the Arab World and Latin America supports scholars pursuing research in the humanities & social sciences on the Arab or Latin American worlds. Apply by Sept. 17, 5 PM ET: bit.ly/3Q0Oi5I

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Day 4 of #IAS_NUQ at #IAMCR2026! Our director, Clovis Bergère, presented "Bringing Africa Online: Imaginaries of Youth and the Early Days of Popular Computing in Guinea-Conakry."

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

@mkraidy.bsky.social wrapped up the day with the plenary "Communicating Peace in an Era of War," reflecting on the future of multilateralism and the role of communication in an increasingly polarized world.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Her documentary explored how displaced communities remember a homeland they can no longer return to, examining how memory is carried through stories, family histories, objects, and everyday acts of remembrance across generations.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Next up, our #IAS_NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellow Isra Fejzullaj presented "My Soil, My Soul: The Cham Struggle to Remember and Revive."

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Her presentation explored how participatory digital storytelling, audio, and AI can create more ethical forms of representation that center the aspirations and resilience of young women from Cape Town.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Day 1 of #IAS_NUQ at #IAMCR26! First up, our #IAS_NUQ faculty mentor @schezsafla.bsky.social presented "A Pivot to Podcasting: Audio and AI as a Method for Ethical Representation."

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The session drew a full house — thank you to everyone who joined us for such an engaging conversation!

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Their presentation challenged dominant understandings of the digital, noting that while the internet’s Anglo-American origins still shape how digital technologies are imagined, global digital production has now shifted decisively beyond the West.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

@mkraidy.bsky.social served as discussant, engaging papers that foregrounded relational, context-sensitive, and ethically grounded approaches to understanding speech, power, and mediation.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Final day of #IAS_NUQ at #ICA26! Catch @mkraidy.bsky.social and Clovis Bergère today for “Southern Digitalities: Rethinking the Digital from the Global South.” 🕥 10:30 – 11:45 a.m. 📍 C1 1.43, CTICC1, Level 1

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

@mkraidy.bsky.social presented “Digitality as Zombie Analogicity,” examining how analog media continue to haunt, shape, and remediate the digital technologies they are often assumed to have replaced.

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rasmuskleis.bsky.social @rasmuskleis.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

“It is one thing to talk about inequality. It is something else to do something about it” @mkraidy.bsky.social says as #ICAA26 kicks off with opening plenary on 'Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication', also featuring Ingrid Bachmann, Tanja Bosch, Nicholas Bowman and Aliaa ElShabassy

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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Frank exchange at #ica26 opening plenary on “Inequalities and Knowledge Production in Communication: Inroads and Challenges Ahead” How far has the field come? Who shapes the conversation? @ingridbachmann.bsky.social @mkraidy.bsky.social @bowmanspartan.bsky.social Tanja Bosch Allaa ElShabassy

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

We’re kicking off day 3 of #IAS_NUQ at @icahdq.bsky.social 2026! Catch @mkraidy.bsky.social and Chafic Najem in the panel “Temporality, Mediation, and Construction of Meaning.” 🕛 12:00 – 1:15 p.m. 📍 Westin HE Victoria & Alfred, Harbour Edge Level Full program: bit.ly/4x8m3sa

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76th Annual ICA Conference - 2026

Communication and Inequalities in Context

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Chafic Tony Najem followed with his paper, “The Negation of Zero: Alienation, Refusal, and Confrontation in Arab and African Thought,” which explored refusal, silence, and confrontation as ways of resisting ideological nullification.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Then, Angela Haddad, our #IAS_NUQ postdoctoral scholar presented “A ‘Possible Modernity’: The Arab Self, Diaspora, and Cultural Rapprochement in the Waning Years of Third World Solidarity."

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Next up, Clovis Bergère presented “Echoes and Overlaps of Youth in Williams Sassine’s Chroniques Assassines,” exploring youth not simply as an age group, but as a concept and method for rethinking media studies across African and Global South contexts.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Kicking off our #ICA26 preconference at the University of Cape Town with opening remarks from Clovis Bergère, @mkraidy.bsky.social, and Nabil Echchaibi.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

We @nuqatar.bsky.social wish our community, partners, and friends a Eid Mubarak.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Special thanks to our collaborators at the University of Queensland and Vietnam National University, as well as to the instructors, participants, and organizers for making this year’s program such a thoughtful and engaging gathering.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Over three days, participants engaged in mentoring sessions, research presentations, and a well-attended public roundtable and masterclass, Introducing Southern Digitalities, exploring digital cultures, infrastructures, labor, media, and platformization from and across the Global South.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

Last week, #IAS_NUQ joined scholars in Hanoi, Vietnam, for the 2026 Southern Digitalities Summer School!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Another stellar cohort of @iasnuq.bsky.social Global Undergraduate Fellows, with great projects that deepen our grasp of the world and raise @nuqatar.bsky.social 's reputation as a leader in advanced undergraduate research: textual, visual, audiovisual, multimodal s.thepeninsula.qa/nbmkpe

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NUQ Global Undergraduate Fellowship continues to empower student researchers

Doha, Qatar: Fifteen undergraduate student researchers from Northwestern University in Qatar have been selected to join the Institute for Advanced Stu...

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Graduation is where culmination meets beginning. How sweet it is to gather, to witness, and to celebrate—together, the fruit of years of sweat, inspiration & creativity. Thanks to my amazing team for pulling off such a joyous event. Heartfelt congratulations @nuqatar.bsky.social #Classof2026

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American Council of Learned Societies @acls1919.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

Next Monday, April 27, join ACLS President Joy Connolly and Marwan Kraidy, Dean of Northwestern University in Qatar and Chair of the ACLS Board of Directors, at Northwestern University for a conversation about lessons from—and for—the humanities: bit.ly/4cFINq7

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Joy Connolly and Marwan Kraidy to Deliver Northwestern University Kaplan Critical Conversation in the Humanities

Joy Connolly and Marwan Kraidy will discuss "A Humanities for the Public Good" on April 27 at Northwestern University.

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Modern Language Association @modernlanguage.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

"Society needs specialized humanities research—research that delves deeply into literary, linguistic, or cultural topics," says @paulakrebs.bsky.social. We need to invest in humanities research for the advancement of society. #TalkAboutHumanities

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

This year, Eid carries a different weight across our region. Even so, we are reminded—often in quiet ways—that community endures. As we complete our semester remotely, we remain deeply connected. Wishing you peace, warmth, and light. Eid Mubarak.

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

We are thrilled to share the launch of Feminist Digital Citizenship in Africa, which includes a chapter by our very own Clovis Bergère. The book launch will take place next week in an online conversation with the editors and chapter authors.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

From all of us at @nuqatar.bsky.social to all those who celebrate, we wish you a Ramadan Mubarak

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It was fabulous to host Tarek El-Ariss @nuqatar.bsky.social to discuss his acclaimed book Water on Fire, an evocative & insightful memoir about war, trauma & desire. He discussed his journey from academic to personal writing, the sea as liberation & threat & the obsessions that make us human.

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

This week, 55 faculty, staff, students, alumni & partners @nuqatar.bsky.social at #WebSummitQatar2026 engaged a global audience in conversations rigorous and generous that reflect what we do best: advancing knowledge, nurturing talent, and shaping ideas that matter. #NUQProud

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

Today the @nuqatar.bsky.social community continues to blaze a distinctive trail of scholarship, creativity, and engagement at #WebSummitQatar2026 . This is the third day of our third yearly contribution to this important global event. Please join us! #NUQProud

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

On Day 2 of #WebSummitQatar2026 the stellar @nuqatar.bsky.social line-up continues, with wide-ranging contributions in research, mediamaking, and other modalities of evidence-based storytelling! #NUQProud

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

I am thrilled to share that HE Sheikh Jassim bin Mansour bin Jabor Al Thani, Director of the Gov Comms Office, Chairman of the Permanent Web Summit Organising Committee, & @nuqatar.bsky.social alumnus, will join me for the #WSQ Dean’s Global Forum at Web Summit Qatar 2026 #NUQWebSummit2026 #NUQProud

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

The future is rarely singular—or settled. At @nuqatar.bsky.social we confidently grapple with uncomfortable questions. Hence our latest Media Majlis Museum exhibition, “What’s between, between?” invites visitors to ponder the uncertainty of the future. A must-do if in Doha btw now and June!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Congratulations to the winners of Star Awards @nuqatar.bsky.social our colleagues who exemplify excellence, collaboration, community, and sustainability—recognizing the everyday contributions that strengthen our workplace and reflect our shared values. Your work makes a difference. Thank you!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The spring 2026 semester at @nuqatar.bsky.social launched with an @iasnuq.bsky.social Winter School on Theory & Method with scholars from all over the world, incl @christopherali.bsky.social Sami Atallah & Carola Richter. Thank you @marinakrikorian.bsky.social & #IAS_NUQ staff!

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

Join us streaming tomorrow from Northwestern University Qatar, 1pm local time, 5am ET

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Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South @iasnuq.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

We kicked off 2026 with the #IAS_NUQ Theory and Method Winter School. Three days of master classes and conversations on media policy and governance at @nuqatar.bsky.social. Organized by #IAS_NUQ with support from @carnegie.org. Stay tuned!

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Marwan M. Kraidy @mkraidy.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I am thrilled to host the great @alondra.bsky.social for a @nuqatar.bsky.social Dean’s Global Forum to discuss “AI: Purpose, Governance, and Public Benefit.” January 13 at 1 pm Doha, 4 am Chicago, 5 am NYC.

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