Helga Tawil-Souri

Palestinian American academic

Helga Tawil Souri
Born (1969-11-16) November 16, 1969 (age 54)
Kuwait
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Helga Tawil-Souri (Arabic: هلجا طويل-الصوري) (born in Kuwait in 1969) is a Palestinian-American Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Director of Graduate Studies New York University Steinhardt. Her work focuses on technology, media, culture, territory and politics, with a focus on Palestine and Israel.[1]

She has also produced a number of documentary films.[2][3]

Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University (1992), an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication (1994), and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2005).[4]

Film career

Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.[3][5][6]

"i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]" was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.[7]

Tawil-Souri's research has focused on Americanization of the Palestinian Territories through Internet development.[8] One of her book chapters[9] was adapted into a seminar on information society and multiculturalism at Yeungnam University.[10] She was noted in a review of another book chapter[11] for challenging some of the traditional theoretical assumptions in discussions of global communications.[12] Her addressing of controversial issues about politics and video games has been the subject of discussion in the media.[13][14]

Tawil-Souri was on the editorial board of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, an academic peer-reviewed journal published by Brill.[15]

Tawil-Souri was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit along with Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Ted Turner, Lance Armstrong, Geena Davis and Mary Robinson. The Summit was sponsored by Mashable and the United Nations Foundation, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in September, 2011 and brought together global leaders to discuss the most challenging problems facing humanity.[16]

Articles

  • "Cinema as the Space to Transgress Palestine's Territorial Trap". Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. 7 (2): 169–189. 2014.
  • "Intifada 3.0? Cyber colonialism and Palestinian resistance". Arab Studies Journal. 22 (1). 2014.
  • "Digital occupation: Gaza's high-tech enclosure" (PDF). Journal of Palestine Studies. 41 (2): 27–43. 2012.
  • "It's Still About the Power of Place". Middle East Journal Of Culture And Communication. 5 (1): 86–95. 2012.
  • "Where is the Political in Cultural Studies? In Palestine". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 16 (1): 1–16. 2011.
  • "Colored Identity: The Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel". Social Text. 29 (2 (107)): 67–97. 2011.
  • "The Hi-Tech Enclosure of Gaza". In Larudee, Mahrene, ed. (2011). Gaza – Palestine: Out of the Margins (PDF).
  • "Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Nonplace". Space and Culture. 14 (1): 4–26. 2011.
  • "Walking Nicosia, Imagining Jerusalem". Re-Public. 2010.
  • "Towards Palestinian Cultural Studies" (PDF). Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture. 2 (2): 181–185. Fall 2009.
  • "New Palestinian Centers: An Ethnography of the 'Checkpoint Economy'". International Journal of Cultural Studies. 12 (3): 217–235. 2009.
  • "The Political Battlefield of Pro-Arab Videogames on Palestinian Streets". Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. 27 (3): 536–551. Fall 2007.
  • "Global and Local Forces for a Nation-State Yet to Be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies". Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. 4 (3): 4–25. September 2007.
  • "Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons Against Peace". Development. 49 (2): 75–80. March 2006.
  • "Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making" (PDF). Nebula. 2 (2): 113–140. June 2005.

Documentary films

  • i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]
  • Not Going There, Don't Belong Here

External links

  • Steinhardt faculty website
  • Faculty profile
  • helga.com

References

  1. ^ "Helga Tawil-Souri". NYU Steinhardt. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  2. ^ "Helga Tawil-Souri". NYU Steinhardt. Archived from the original on 10 June 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  3. ^ a b "Film maker Visits Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon". Voices of Palestine. Archived from the original on 25 July 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  4. ^ "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). NYU Steinhardt. Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 June 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2010.
  5. ^ "Film screenings by Palestinian Student Association". Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 5 August 2010. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  6. ^ "6th Annual Arab Film Festival 2002". Artsopolis. Archived from the original on 28 July 2011. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  7. ^ "isochronism [twenty four hours in jabaa]". YouTube. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
  8. ^ "Interview Archives: Middle East". WILL (AM). Archived from the original on 6 November 2009. Retrieved 23 January 2010.
  9. ^ "Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development". Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms. Routledge. 2009. pp. 32–47. ISBN 978-0-415-95625-3. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  10. ^ "Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development" (PDF). Yeungnam University. Retrieved 23 January 2010.[permanent dead link]
  11. ^ Global communications: toward a transcultural political economy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008. pp. 263–284. ISBN 978-0-7425-4044-6. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  12. ^ Janet Wasko (2009). "Review: Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao (eds), Global Communications: ..." European Journal of Communication. 24 (4): 495–497. Retrieved 4 February 2010.
  13. ^ "Me Against The Keyboard". Retrieved 4 February 2010.[permanent dead link]
  14. ^ "Press TV The Autograph". YouTube. Archived from the original on 16 May 2016. Retrieved 7 October 2011.
  15. ^ "Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 29 June 2012. Retrieved 8 June 2012.
  16. ^ "Social Good Summit". Mashable. Archived from the original on 28 January 2013. Retrieved 8 June 2012.