Dima Saber

• Semiotics of media productions and cultural theory 
• Media and conflict 
• Archives, memory and media representations of war and revolution
• Pan-Arab nationalism, political Islam and propaganda in the MENA
• Digital literacy and social impact

• 2012 Ph.D. in Media Studies, University of Panthéon-Assas, Paris II – (CARISM-IFP).
• 2007 MA in Social & Political Sciences, specialization in Semiotics - media, languages and communication,University of Panthéon-Assas, Paris II.
• 2005 MA in Media Studies, University of Panthéon-Assas, Paris II.

• 2004 MA in Journalism, Lebanese University, Beirut.
• 1999-2003 BA in Languages & Translation, Lebanese University, Beirut.

MA Media and Cultural Studies

• Check Global: Developing a Verification and Anti-disinformation Network for the Global South (2014 – present); Programmatic, bid development & impact assessment lead – Working with partners across the MENA region, in East Africa, Southeast Asia and Latin America; Responsible for impact assessment and project evaluation; Journalism schools lead, responsible for developing a Pan-Arab network of partners in media schools; Developing arabcitizenmedia.org as an open access platform offering interactive resources in media and digital literacy skills – Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, SIDA.
• Voices of War & Peace Engagement Centre, The Great War and its Legacy;  The Arts & Humanities Research Council, in collaboration with the HLF; leading the Peace & Conflict theme. 
• ‘Recording-by-Resistance: the visibility and visuality of contentious political action in Syria, Egypt, Yemen and Palestine’, The Swedish Foundation for Humanities & Social Sciences, in partnership with Stockholm University http://resistancebyrecording.se/. 
• Archivist & Lead Researcher – Media discourses of war, political filmmaking and ethical practice; Mapping & analysing first-hand amateur footage from Daraa documenting the first 18 months of the Syrian uprising.

 Dima is interested in supervising doctoral students researching all aspects of media and cultural studies, particularly those interested in cultural theory, media and conflict, citizen journalism, archives and memory, media representations of social turmoil in post-war and revolutionary settings, digital literacy and social impact and dis-information/mis-information monitoring.

Saber, D. (forthcoming, 2020), ‘Crowd-sourced archives as ‘realms of memory’’: reflections on the Syrian Archive, Pierre Nora and war in Agostinho, D. et al. (eds), (W)archives. Archival Imaginaries and Contemporary Wars, Sternberg Press.

 Saber, D. (forthcoming, 2020), ‘The disappearing Archives of the Syrian War: Mapping the ‘video-as-evidence’ ecology’ in Anden-Papadopoulos, K. and Saber, D. (eds.), Image Activism After the Arab Uprisings (Special Edition), The International Journal of Communication.

 Saber, D. and Long, P. (2019), ‘Refugee writing, refugee history: Locating the refugee archive in the making of a history of the Syrian war’ in Durrant, S. et al. (eds), Refugee Imaginaries: Research Across the Humanities, Edinburgh University Press.

 Saber, D. and Long, P. (2017), ‘I will not leave, my freedom is more precious than my blood’
 From affect to precarity: crowd-sourced citizen archives as memories of the Syrian war’. Archives and Records, 1: 38, pp. 80-99, doi: 10.1080/23257962.2016.. 

 Saber, D. (2017), ‘Un/Framing Syria’: Citizen content, media discourses of war and ethical praxis of political filmmaking in the Digital Age’, in Dubberley, S. (eds), Finding the Truth Amongst the Fakes. Social Newsgathering and News Verification in the Arab World, Qatar: Aljazeera Media Institute, ISBN 978-9927-4011-6-9.

 Saber, D. and Webber, N. (2016), ‘This is our Call of Duty: Ideology, History and Resistant Videogames in the Middle East’, Media, Culture and Society, 39:  1, pp. 77-93, doi: 10.1177/0163443716673897

 Saber, D. (2016), ‘From pan-Arabism to Political Islam: a Ricoeurian reading of Al-Jazeera’s coverage of the ‘6^th war’ in Lebanon’, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, 1: 9, pp.81-98, doi: 10.1386/ jammr.9.1.81_1

Saber, D. (2015), ‘Checkdesk : Sorting, Developing & Disseminating Citizen Reporting in the MENA Region’, Humanitarianism 2.0. Global Policy Journal, Special report, ISBN 978-0-9933536

Saber, D. and El-Houri, W. (2013), [Fr] ‘Prier pour la révolution : le rôle politique de la prière dans le récit de #Jan25 en Egypte’ (Praying for a revolution: the political role of prayer in the #Jan25 narrative in Egypt). In Lambert, F. (eds.), Prières et Propagandes. Études sur la prière dans les arènes publiques. Suivi du livre I de La Prière de Marcel Mauss, Paris: Éditions Hermann, coll. "Cultures numériques", ISBN 978-2705-6878-5-4

Saber, D. and El-Houri, W. (2013), [Fr] ‘Dire la guerre en chansons : Nasser et la Nation sur les ondes de la Voix des Arabes’ (Representing war in songs: Nasser and the nation on the VOA radio). In Temps de la guerre versus temps de la paix: l'expression musicale comme agent du lien social, Perpignan: Cths.

El-Houri, W. and Saber, D. (2010), ‘Filming resistance: A Hezbollah strategy’, Radical History Review, 106, pp. 70-85

Twitter: @dimalb

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