The book is an attempt to weave together academic necessity with personal and political interest in questions of gender dynamics in/and the media in Jordan. I worked on it during the pandemic and multiple strict lockdowns, so it feels also like a personal trium..
Ebtihal Mahadeen
Ebtihal Mahadeen is lecturer in gender and media studies at the University of Edinburgh’s Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies Department. Her research addresses the interaction between gender, sexuality, and the media within the Jordanian context/MENA region. She has published extensively on the gendered politics of culture, mediated femininities and masculinities, and the media as sites of hegemony and resistance.