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Dr Noha Mellor
Position: Senior Lecturer
Location: EB 2.22 , Docklands
Contact address:
School of Humanities and Social Sciences
University of East London
Docklands Campus
4-6 University Way
London E16 2RD
Brief biography:
Dr Noha Mellor is a native Egyptian, who spent many years in Scandinavia before residing in the UK. She has lectured at several European HE institutions and she is the author of The Making of Arab News (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005). Her main research interest is the challenging process of meaning making in an increasingly mediated world, and particularly how trans-national media manages the distance between audience and the Other, e.g. in news on disasters and conflicts.
Besides her former academic experience at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark, Noha Mellor has several years of professional experience in journalism as News Producer both for Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting) and the BBC World Service. Thus she combines the theoretical with the practical in her recent and ongoing research in journalism and mediation. Outside of academia, Dr Mellor contributes her expertise in Arab journalism to current trans-national initiatives to promote peace, e.g. her contribution to the Media Initiative of the EUROMED (EU partnership with Mediterranean countries) as well as Alliance of Civilizations Initiative under the auspices of the UN. She is also on the Board of Editors for KURIR (Kingston University Research & Innovation Reports).
Shortform CV
Education
- PhD, MA, and BA - University of Copenhagen, Denmark
- BA - University of Cairo, Egypt
Professional Training
- Broadcasting Journalism, BBC World Service, London, UK
- Diploma in Marketing,Copenhagen Business School, Denmark
Languages
- Fluent in Arabic, English and Danish. Fair knowledge of French
Previous experience
- News Producer BBC World Service, Arabic Section
- External Lecturer Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen,
Denmark
- Journalist Danish Broadcasting Corporation, Denmark
- Head of Translation InterCollege Ltd.
Grants
- British Academy, £77000
- Danish National Press Education Award, twice £3000 (2003 & 2004)
- Carlsberg Foundation Award, twice £6000 (2003 & 2004)
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Activities/responsible for:
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Areas of interest/Summary of Expertise:
- Mediation, media and morality
- Arab journalism and democracy
Teaching:
Programmes:
- Understanding Cultural Industries (CC2501)
- Introduction to Journalism
- Consumption and Representation
- Online Journalism
- Dissertation
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Research / Publications:
Current research:
All publications post 2001:
Forthcoming publications
- (2007) Journalists as Eyewitnesses. In Madawi Al Rasheed (ed.) Dying for Faith. London: I B Tauris
- (2007, forthcoming) Journalism and Media Entrepreneurship. In Mellor, R. (ed.) The Handbook of Entrepreneurship. London: Sage.
Books
- 2007, in press. Modern Arab Journalism. Edinbugh: Edinburgh University Press.
- 2005 The Making of Arab News. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (link to the book review)
- 2004 (with R. B. Mellor): Applied E-learning. Copenhagen: Globe.
- 2003 Compendium in contrastive Danish-Arabic syntax). Copenhagen: Special-
pædagogisk Forlag (in Danish).
Articles
- 2006a Arab Media, what has this to do with Europe? Mediterranean Yearbook
Med.2006. Barcelona: The European Institute of the Mediterranean and the
Fundacio CIDOB (download)
- 2006b Try a Little Tenderness (Masculine equisiteness). Dance Gazette, Summer 2006. London: Royal Academy of Dance. (download)
- 2005a Fear and Islam. Financial Times Magazine. 23 July, 2005. (download)
- 2005b Girl power. Financial Times Magazine. 12 November, 2005. (download)
- 2005c Découvrir les ennemis de l’intérieur. Afkar/Idées, Num. 8. Barcelone: IEMed.
- 2004a Her Majesty the Press. Civility Review, Foreign Policy Centre, Vol. 1 (2), 9
- 2004b Credibility Gap. Financial Times Magazine, 30 October, 2004.
- 2003 Arabic media – easy to understand? Danish journal for media researchers
SAMSON, Vol. 13, May 2003 (in Danish).
Conference papers
- 2003 Arab News Values, paper presented at Globalisation and Media symposium,
University of Copenhagen, Denmark, May 2003.
- 2004 The role of Arab media in the democratisation process. A paper presented at
the Foreign Policy Centre seminar, Chatham House, September 2004.
- 2005 Uncovering the enemies. A paper presented at the EUROMED and Media
conference, Barcelona, November 2005.
- 2006 Stereotypes in the Media. A talk at the Racism, Xenophobia and the Media: Towards respect and understanding of all religions and cultures. A conference organized by the European Commission and the European Monitoring Centre on Racism and Xenophobia, Vienna, 22-23 May 2006
- 2006 Arab journalism in contemporary polity. Paper presented at Media Change and Social Theory Conference, St Hugh’s College, Oxford, September 6-8, 2006 (organized by the Center for Research on Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC)).
- 2006 Reporting violence: a moral duty with a market value. A paper presented at Dying for Faith Conference, King’s College, September 11-12, 2006.
- 2006 Global media: Global public sphere. A paper presented at Internationalizing Media Studies Conference, Westminster University, September 15-16, 2006.
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