[This article is part of a special dossier on fandom and politics in the Southwest Asian/ North African (S.W.A.N.A.) region. Read all of the pieces, as well as the introduction, here.]
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Dr. Katty Alhayek is an Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University in Canada. Alhayek’s research centers around themes of marginality, media, audiences, gender, intersectionality, and displacement in a transnational context. Alhayek completed her Ph.D. in Communication at the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States of America with a graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies. Her publications include articles in the International Journal of Communication; Feminist Media Studies; Gender, Technology and Development; Syria Studies; International Review of Qualitative Research; and Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Alhayek's work has been awarded grants from major international organizations and universities, including the Open Society Foundations, the Social Science Research Council, and London School of Economics and Political Science. She was a MESA Global Academy Fellow between 2021 and 2022.
د. كاتي الحايك: أستاذة مساعدة في مجال الإعلام المهني ودراسات الجماهير الرقمية في جامعة تورنتو متروبوليتان بكندا. حصلت الحايك على درجة الدكتوراة في الإعلام من جامعة ماساتشوستس في أمهيرست (الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية) ودرجة ماجستير في الإعلام والتنمية من جامعة أوهايو (الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية) وإجازة في الإعلام من جامعة دمشق (سوريا). لدى الحايك خبرة عمل تتجاوز الخمسة عشر عاماً مع العديد من المنظمات والجامعات الدولية في مجال الإعلام والنسوية وحقوق الإنسان.