Teaching Media Literacy on Israel-Palestine

Speaker

Marda Dunsky

Assistant Professor

Northwestern University in Qatar

Marda Dunsky is a print journalist and journalism scholar. Her most recent book, Stories from Palestine: Narratives of Resilience (University of Notre Dame Press, 2021) focuses on Palestinians in the West Bank, Jerusalem and Gaza Strip engaged in creative and productive pursuits – challenging dominant mainstream media representations of their community as being subsumed by oppression and violence. She is also the author of Pens and Swords: How the American Mainstream Media Report the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (Columbia University Press, 2008), a work of media analysis and criticism covering news reporting of the conflict from 2000 to 2004. Dunsky has worked as an editor and reporter at several newspapers including the Chicago Tribune and The Jerusalem Post.

Moderator

Ibrahim Abusharif
Associate Professor
Northwestern Qatar

 

Event information

DATE

Sunday, October 27, 2024

TIME

1:00 p.m.

LOCATION

1-300
Northwestern Qatar