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Helga Tawil-Souri ( born 1969 , Kuwait ) is a Palestinian-American media scholar and documentary filmmaker She is an associate professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University . She earned a BA from McGill University in 1992, an MA from the University of Southern California Annenberg School of Communication in 1994, and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado Boulder in 2005.
Helga began filming her first film in November 2001, titled Not Going There, Don't Belong Here , which was shot in various refugee camps in Lebanon and was completed in 2002. The film was broadcast on several American channels, including Free Speech TV, and was screened at universities and film festivals in the United States and abroad.
Helga also filmed a film titled "Twenty-four hours in Jabaa", which was filmed in the village of Jabaa in the Palestinian West Bank . She finished the film in 2004, making it an experimental documentary that links the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture. It was filmed during the Second Intifada .
Helga's research has focused on the Americanization of the Palestinian territories through the development of the Internet, and her research has been used in a symposium on information society and multiculturalism at a university in South Korea , and in a chapter of her books she has mentioned some of the traditional theoretical assumptions that are considered challenging in discussing global communications, and has said that addressing controversial issues is a matter for debate in the media.
Her articles are in English
Where is the Politics in Cultural Studies in Palestine?, International Journal of Cultural Studies 16(1): 1-16, 2011.
The Color of Identity: The Politics and Relative Importance of Identity Cards in Palestine/Israel , Social Text 107: 67-97, 2011.
Hello Technology from Gaza , (30-52), 2011.
Walking in Nicosia, Imagining Jerusalem , Republic 4, 2010.
Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Non-Place , Space and Culture, 14(1): 4-26, 2011.
Towards Cultural Studies in Palestine , Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture, (2) 2: 181-185, Fall 2009.
New Palestinian Centres: Ethnography as the “Checkpoint of the Economy ,” International Journal of Cultural Studies 12(3): 217-235, 2009.
The Arab Political Battleground Before Video Games: The Palestinian Street , Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East 27(3):536-551, Fall 2007.
Global and Local Forces of a Nation-State Not Yet Born: Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Politics , Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4(3): 4-25, September 2007.
Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons Against Peace and Development , 49(2): 75-80, March 2006.
The Road to Existence and Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film , Sedim 2 (2): 113-140, June 2005.
documentaries
Not Going There, Do n't Belong Here
"Twenty-four hours in Jabaa "
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