My PhD thesis, submitted in 2014, explored the evolution of the online debate in post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. This initial work focused on the politization of the local social media sphere during the first electoral campaigns and constitutional referen..
Dounia Mahlouly
Dr Dounia Mahlouly is a lecturer and course convenor for the SOAS postgraduate courses “Studies in Global Digital Cultures” and “International Political Communication.” She designed and convenes the course entitled “Prejudice, Conspiracy and Misinformation: Understanding the Debate around '(Post)-Truth” as part of the SOAS MA program in Global Media and Communications. Dounia is the author of Digital Political Cultures in the Middle East since the Arab Uprisings: Online Activism in Egypt, Tunisia and Lebanon (2023) and the founder of the Middle East Research Hub, a non-profit association disseminating social science research applied to the Middle East and North Africa region. She completed her PhD at the University of Glasgow in partnership with the American University in Cairo in 2015, which investigated the evolving communication strategy of leading political actors campaigning in post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. Before joining the SOAS Centre for Global Media and Communications, she conducted her postdoctoral research at King's College London. Simultaneously, she worked as a Senior Research Associate for The Open University (OU).