Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, media history and theory, cultural studies
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Duke University Press, 2021) was awarded the Jane Jacobs Book Award by the Urban Communication Foundation.
His second book, in its earliest stages, will uncover the genealogy of the 'Arab street', and the media historical conditions and urban contestations that have defined it in the 20th and 21st centuries. This project is informed by two secondary lines of research - the place of televisuality and affect in contemporary politics and its racializations, and the history of regionality in media industries.
In Fall 2019, he was Visiting Faculty Fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the Annenberg School at University of Pennsylvania. Prior to joining George Mason, he was at the American University of Beirut.
Co-editor (with William L. Youmans) of "Producing the Middle East” and "Introduction," Special Issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication on “ Vol 16, 2 (2023): 111-114. link
Co-author (with Kaveh Askari) “Documents, Archives, Absence: Current Challenges and Insights from Media Research in the Middle East and Beyond” in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East, eds. Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, and Bilge Yesil (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023): 147-161. link
“The Elisions of Televised Solidarity and the 2014 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza” in Gaza on Screen, ed. Nadia Yaqub (Duke University Press, 2023): 187-206. link
“The Urban Condition and Its Imaginaries: Perspectives from the Arab World,” World Humanities Report, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (2023) Link
“The Cultural Logic of Visibility in the Arab Uprisings.” International Journal of Communication, Vol 8 (2014): 835-852. link
“Mapping Beirut: Toward a History of the Translation of Space from the French Mandate through the Civil War (1920-91).” The Arab World Geographer, Vol 12, Nos. 3-4 (2010): 119-135.
Fall 2023
ENGH 371 Global TV
ENGH 372 Intro to Film
Spring 2023
ENGH 371 Television Studies: US TV in the 2010s
ENGH 470RS Media, Politics, and Melodrama
Spring 2022
ENGH 362/570 Film and Media of the Middle East
ENGH 372 Introduction to Film
Fall 2021
CULT 860 Global Media Industries and TV
ENGH 371 Television Studies
Spring 2021
ENGH 472 Film and Revolution
ENGH 372 Introduction to Film
Fall 2020
ENGH 470 Politics and Melodrama
ENGH 371 Television Studies - The US and Global TV
Spring 2020
ENGH 372 Introduction to Film
ENGH 308 Watching the Middle East
Spring 2019
ENGH 372 Introduction to Film
HNRS 353 Television, Technology, and Power
Fall 2018
ENGH 371 Television Studies - The US and Global TV
ENGH 362 Global Voices - Film and Media of the Middle East
Spring 2018:
ENGH 372 Introduction to Film
ENGH 308 Watching the Middle East: Spectacle, Spectatorship, Decolonization
Fall 2017
ENGH 371 Television Studies - Love and Hate in Global Television
Ph.D - Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
MA - Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
BA - Psychology, Rutgers University