Instructional Faculty


 
Khamis

 

Sahar Mohamed Khamis

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., University of Manchester (U.K.)

   

 

Research

Dr. Khamis is an expert on Arab and Middle Eastern media. She is the former Head of the Mass Communication and Information Science Department in Qatar University. Dr. Khamis holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester in England.

She is the co-author of the book Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace, which was published by Palgrave Macmillan in June 2009. She authored chapters in the books: Women and Media in the Middle East: Power Through Self-Expression, edited by Naomi Sakr and published by I.B. Tauris, London in 2004, and New Media and the New Middle East, edited by Philip Seib and published by Palgrave Macmillan in 2007.

Dr. Khamis a lso has several publications in both international and regional academic journals and conferences in both English and Arabic. She is the recipient of a number of prestigious academic and professional awards. She is a member of the editorial boards of the journals Media, War & Conflict, Journal of Middle East Media, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, and Advances in the History of Rhetoric.

Curriculum Vitae

   

 

Teaching

Fall 2009:

COMM 370—Mediated Communication

COMM 468A—Seminar in Mediated Communication: Arab Media

Spring 2010:

TBD

   

 

 

Contact

Department of Communication
2130 Skinner Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742-7635

Office: Skinner 2104
Phone: 301-405-0864
Fax: 301-314-9471
Email: skhamis@umd.edu