Dina Matar
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248727 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dina Matar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dina |
| FAMILY NAME | Matar |
| SIGNATURE | MATAR D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5309-9740 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology
In this introduction, we argue that the political, socio-economic and ethical ramifications of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the complicity of institutional actors require a radical rethinking of the “facts” of colonial genocide as against the narrative of a liberal democratic international order. We offer a broad survey of the extant state of discussions about Palestine in the field at large and then turn to anti-colonial thinkers including the …
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Habitual media
This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped define, articulate, imagine and intervene implicitly and explicitly in the war, its securitisation, visualisation, mediation, narration, and representation. Together, it suggests, these practices serve to…
Arab News Sources and Practices in Times of Crisis
The relationship between journalists and news source has been challenged by new digital technologies, the crisis in public communication and the multiplication of sources of information and news, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed journalistic routines and audience behaviour. Existing research on news sources has contributed to our understanding of which voices dominate the news agenda in normal conditions, but there remains little …
Producing Palestine
Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palestinians. Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – cross…
What It Means To Be Palestinian
In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by their supporters, as the most compelling contemporary form of a transnational anti-colonial identity emerging within and in opposition to persisting colonial structures, oppression and subjugation. It…
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy
The Palestine Liberation Organization has been extensively studied and researched in a variety of disciplines and perspectives. However, little attention has been paid to its media and/or political communication strategies that went hand in hand with its political evolution and aims from 1969 to 1982, a period marked by flux and political uncertainty as well intensive PLO state-building processes. This paper seeks to partially fill the gap by add…
Shooting a Revolution
PLO Cultural Activism
Matar’s essay addresses the PLO’s cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968–82. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO’s cultural output, it traces how the PLO strategized popular culture to enhance its image, create a new visibility for Palestinians, and mediate a Palestinian-centric liberation aesthetic rooted in real experience…
Co-optation of Third Worldism
Research on the international history of the “Third World” has proliferated since 2005, with the publication of several books adopting a diversity of approaches and methods, focusing on the rhetoric and cultural politics of liberation and de-colonizing movements and providing alternatives to the nation-state framework favored until then. Departing from, but also embracing this scholarship, Jeffrey James Byrne’s Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decol…
Yusif Sayigh
Gaza as metaphor
Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza: Crisis, Exception, Refugees, Destitution, Tunnels, Persistence. This book brings together journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, who use metaphor to record and historicise Gaza, to contextualise its everyday re…
Women and journalism
In Women and Journalism, Suzanne Franks examines the role of women in journalism in Western European societies, arguing that the fault lines which determine whether women reach senior positions in
A Critical Reflection on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age
Bottom-Up Diplomacy
Journal Article Bottom-Up Diplomacy: The PLO’s Populist Diplomacy in the Cold War Era Get access Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Making of the Post–Cold War Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Dina Matar Dina Matar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issu…
Narrating Conflict in the Middle East
The term conflict has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Nar…
Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings
The 2011 Arab uprisings have called into question the assumptions and questions that have defined much of the scholarship on the media of and about the Arab world and its various publics. Much of this scholarship remains largely shaped by the ‘political’ agendas of the dominant analytical paradigms prominent in the 1970s, including the modernisation paradigm. Furthermore, many studies consider mediated cultures as being of the ‘here’ and the ‘now…
What it Means to be Palestinian
"What It Means to be Palestinian" is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against…
Communicating Politics in Culture
The Power of Conviction
This paper addresses two inter-related aspects of Hizbullah's political communication strategies: the mediated charisma of its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah and his religious-political discourse. It focuses on two of his political speeches that framed the July 2006 war with Israel, widely seen as a Hizbullah victory that enhanced its popularity among Arab and Muslim populations within and outside of Lebanon. The paper starts with an …
The Palestinians in Britain, news and the politics of recognition
This paper is concerned with how migrants address the politics of recognition from below, or through the politics of theeveryday. It uses a synthesis of theory and original empirical material to address questions of identity, belonging, recognition and participation through their everyday use of various news media. In doing so, it addresses the contexts under which minority and/or diasporic group members may adopt claims to cultural distinctivene…
Heya Tv
Research Article| December 01 2007 Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Women? Dina Matar Dina Matar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 513–524. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dina Matar; Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Wom…
Diverse Diasporas, One Meta-Narrative
This paper considers the implications of 11 September 2001 and its mediation in UK and Arab/Muslim news media for the ways Palestinians in Britain, as an ethno-national minority and diaspora, think through questions of identity and difference, exclusion and inclusion, memory and belonging. Despite great differences in the socio-economic, religious/secular and educational backgrounds of my informants, one over-arching discourse dominates their int…
Heya Tv
Research Article| December 01 2007 Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Women? Dina Matar Dina Matar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 513–524. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dina Matar; Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Wom…
Diverse Diasporas, One Meta-Narrative
This paper considers the implications of 11 September 2001 and its mediation in UK and Arab/Muslim news media for the ways Palestinians in Britain, as an ethno-national minority and diaspora, think through questions of identity and difference, exclusion and inclusion, memory and belonging. Despite great differences in the socio-economic, religious/secular and educational backgrounds of my informants, one over-arching discourse dominates their int…
Habitual media
This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped define, articulate, imagine and intervene implicitly and explicitly in the war, its securitisation, visualisation, mediation, narration, and representation. Together, it suggests, these practices serve to…
PLO Cultural Activism
Matar’s essay addresses the PLO’s cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968–82. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO’s cultural output, it traces how the PLO strategized popular culture to enhance its image, create a new visibility for Palestinians, and mediate a Palestinian-centric liberation aesthetic rooted in real experience…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
What It Means To Be Palestinian
In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by their supporters, as the most compelling contemporary form of a transnational anti-colonial identity emerging within and in opposition to persisting colonial structures, oppression and subjugation. It…
Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings
The 2011 Arab uprisings have called into question the assumptions and questions that have defined much of the scholarship on the media of and about the Arab world and its various publics. Much of this scholarship remains largely shaped by the ‘political’ agendas of the dominant analytical paradigms prominent in the 1970s, including the modernisation paradigm. Furthermore, many studies consider mediated cultures as being of the ‘here’ and the ‘now…
The Power of Conviction
This paper addresses two inter-related aspects of Hizbullah's political communication strategies: the mediated charisma of its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah and his religious-political discourse. It focuses on two of his political speeches that framed the July 2006 war with Israel, widely seen as a Hizbullah victory that enhanced its popularity among Arab and Muslim populations within and outside of Lebanon. The paper starts with an …
Diverse Diasporas, One Meta-Narrative
This paper considers the implications of 11 September 2001 and its mediation in UK and Arab/Muslim news media for the ways Palestinians in Britain, as an ethno-national minority and diaspora, think through questions of identity and difference, exclusion and inclusion, memory and belonging. Despite great differences in the socio-economic, religious/secular and educational backgrounds of my informants, one over-arching discourse dominates their int…
The Palestinians in Britain, news and the politics of recognition
This paper is concerned with how migrants address the politics of recognition from below, or through the politics of theeveryday. It uses a synthesis of theory and original empirical material to address questions of identity, belonging, recognition and participation through their everyday use of various news media. In doing so, it addresses the contexts under which minority and/or diasporic group members may adopt claims to cultural distinctivene…
Heya Tv
Research Article| December 01 2007 Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Women? Dina Matar Dina Matar Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (2007) 27 (3): 513–524. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201x-2007-030 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Dina Matar; Heya Tv: A Feminist Counterpublic for Arab Wom…
Communicating Politics in Culture
The Power of Conviction
This paper addresses two inter-related aspects of Hizbullah's political communication strategies: the mediated charisma of its Secretary-General Sayyed Hassan Nassrallah and his religious-political discourse. It focuses on two of his political speeches that framed the July 2006 war with Israel, widely seen as a Hizbullah victory that enhanced its popularity among Arab and Muslim populations within and outside of Lebanon. The paper starts with an …
What it Means to be Palestinian
"What It Means to be Palestinian" is a narrative of narratives, a collection of personal stories, remembered feelings and reconstructed experiences by different Palestinians whose lives were changed and shaped by history. Their stories are told chronologically through particular phases of the Palestinian national struggle, providing a composite autobiography of Palestine as a landscape and as a people. The book begins with the 1936 revolt against…
Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings
The 2011 Arab uprisings have called into question the assumptions and questions that have defined much of the scholarship on the media of and about the Arab world and its various publics. Much of this scholarship remains largely shaped by the ‘political’ agendas of the dominant analytical paradigms prominent in the 1970s, including the modernisation paradigm. Furthermore, many studies consider mediated cultures as being of the ‘here’ and the ‘now…
Narrating Conflict in the Middle East
The term conflict has often been used broadly and uncritically to talk about diverse situations ranging from street protests to war, though the many factors that give rise to any conflict and its continuation over a period of time vary greatly. The starting point of this innovative book is that it is unsatisfactory either to consider conflict within a singular concept or alternatively to consider each conflict as entirely distinct and unique; Nar…
Women and journalism
In Women and Journalism, Suzanne Franks examines the role of women in journalism in Western European societies, arguing that the fault lines which determine whether women reach senior positions in
A Critical Reflection on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age
Bottom-Up Diplomacy
Journal Article Bottom-Up Diplomacy: The PLO’s Populist Diplomacy in the Cold War Era Get access Paul Thomas Chamberlin, The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Making of the Post–Cold War Order. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 324 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $34.95. Dina Matar Dina Matar Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issu…
Yusif Sayigh
Gaza as metaphor
Open-air Prison, Terror, Resistance, Occupation, Siege, Trauma: irrespective of when, where, and to whom the word is uttered, Gaza immediately evokes an abundance of metaphors. Similarly, a host of metaphors also recall Gaza: Crisis, Exception, Refugees, Destitution, Tunnels, Persistence. This book brings together journalists, writers, doctors, academics and others, who use metaphor to record and historicise Gaza, to contextualise its everyday re…
Co-optation of Third Worldism
Research on the international history of the “Third World” has proliferated since 2005, with the publication of several books adopting a diversity of approaches and methods, focusing on the rhetoric and cultural politics of liberation and de-colonizing movements and providing alternatives to the nation-state framework favored until then. Departing from, but also embracing this scholarship, Jeffrey James Byrne’s Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decol…
PLO Cultural Activism
Matar’s essay addresses the PLO’s cultural activism, in other words, its investment in diverse spheres of popular culture, at the beginning of the revolutionary period 1968–82. Drawing on archival research of the main spheres of the PLO’s cultural output, it traces how the PLO strategized popular culture to enhance its image, create a new visibility for Palestinians, and mediate a Palestinian-centric liberation aesthetic rooted in real experience…
Shooting a Revolution
The PLO’s political communication arena; Arafat and the struggle for media legitimacy
The Palestine Liberation Organization has been extensively studied and researched in a variety of disciplines and perspectives. However, little attention has been paid to its media and/or political communication strategies that went hand in hand with its political evolution and aims from 1969 to 1982, a period marked by flux and political uncertainty as well intensive PLO state-building processes. This paper seeks to partially fill the gap by add…
Producing Palestine
Palestine has often been defined and constructed in the global imaginary through conflict, resistance, oppression and violence. Its representation is so overridden with conflicting claims and associations that it remains inaccessible, even to Palestinians. Producing Palestine addresses the creative labour of producing Palestine, particularly in technological and media spaces that are defined by their porousness and by their intermediality – cross…
What It Means To Be Palestinian
In this essay, I argue that during moments of extreme flux and danger, such as the ongoing Israeli war against Gaza, it becomes relevant to consider how Palestinian identity is constructed and performed by a variety of actors, by Palestinians and by their supporters, as the most compelling contemporary form of a transnational anti-colonial identity emerging within and in opposition to persisting colonial structures, oppression and subjugation. It…
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the first guided by a newly formed Editorial Collective, which seeks to rekindle the politically engaged scholarship epitomized by the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies at Birmingham University in the 1970s, then under the leadership of Stuart Hall. As we assume our responsibility to guide this journal…
Habitual media
This paper addresses the coverage by habitual Western legacy media of the 2023/24 Israeli genocidal war against Gaza. It considers the observable media-related practices these media used in coverage of the war and how these practices have helped define, articulate, imagine and intervene implicitly and explicitly in the war, its securitisation, visualisation, mediation, narration, and representation. Together, it suggests, these practices serve to…
Arab News Sources and Practices in Times of Crisis
The relationship between journalists and news source has been challenged by new digital technologies, the crisis in public communication and the multiplication of sources of information and news, and the COVID-19 pandemic, which has transformed journalistic routines and audience behaviour. Existing research on news sources has contributed to our understanding of which voices dominate the news agenda in normal conditions, but there remains little …
Why Palestine as communicative epistemology
In this introduction, we argue that the political, socio-economic and ethical ramifications of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and the complicity of institutional actors require a radical rethinking of the “facts” of colonial genocide as against the narrative of a liberal democratic international order. We offer a broad survey of the extant state of discussions about Palestine in the field at large and then turn to anti-colonial thinkers including the …
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Media studies (13 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Art (8 works) · History (8 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (7 works)