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  • Contributors

ibrahim n. abusharif is an associate professor in the journalism program at Northwestern University in Qatar. He received his MSJ from Northwestern University and has worked as a journalist, magazine editor, writer, publisher, translator, and academic. His articles and reviews have appeared in numerous publications. His research interests include the assessment of journalistic framing terminologies applied to Middle Eastern affairs, intersections of digital media and religious debates of Muslim milieus, and literary journalism in the Arab world. He recently published his study Parsing “Arab Spring,” which examines the origins, spread, framing, and contestations surrounding the descriptor “Arab Spring.”

khadeegha alzouebi is currently the Postgraduate Programme Director at the School of Education at Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University. She has a doctorate in educational research from the University of Sheffield, England. She also has an M.Ed. and an M.A. in education from the University of Sheffield. Alzouebi has worked extensively on school reform, school effectiveness, and innovative change management both in England and in the Emirates. She has more than fifteen years experience in the education field in many capacities, from teaching at both undergraduate and graduate levels, to project directorship, to leading school reform and postgraduate supervision.

sean burns is a lecturer in residence at Northwestern University in Qatar. For the last four years he has also been a teaching fellow at Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar. He received his Ph.D. in political science at Northwestern University in 2013. His work focuses on democratization and revolutionary movements, particularly in the Middle East. His dissertation, “One Hand? Military Structure and Middle East Revolts,” examines the role of the military in eight Middle East uprisings from the 1979 Iranian Revolution to the Arab Spring. His other areas of research interest include state building and the politics of humanitarian intervention. [End Page v]

angela franklin has worked in West Africa and the United Arab Emirates in the development and implementation of several branch campuses with a focus on internationalization in the areas of student recruitment, admissions, and student life. She has a B.A. from Xavier University along with an MFA from Bradley University and an M.A. in online education leadership management from Hamdan Bin Mohammed Smart University, Dubai. She continues to lend her expertise to developing international initiatives with emphasis on implementing effective and sustainable policies and procedures related to the local community/culture and program development that embraces inclusiveness and diversity as an institutional norm. Her writing and research focus on examining the critical forces of culture and identity as related to effective student engagement.

tanya kane is an adjunct lecturer in anthropology at Northwest University in Qatar and Virginia Commonwealth University in Qatar. Her doctoral fieldwork was conducted at Weill Cornell Medical College in Qatar, where she explored Arab student experiences of the American-styled medical curriculum. A former schoolteacher, Kane has taught in Canada and the United Kingdom. Kane’s regional speciality is the Middle East, and her research interests include globalization, education, medicine, neoliberalism, and knowledge-based economies.

justin d. martin is an assistant professor of journalism at Northwestern University in Qatar. His Ph.D. is from the journalism school at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on media use and political attitudes in the Arab world. Martin’s work has been published in the Journal of Communication, Journalism Studies, International Communication Gazette, Journal of Media and Religion, Journal of Global Mass Communication, and elsewhere. A former Fulbright scholar in Jordan, Martin speaks several dialects of Arabic.

melissa martinez worked for three years at Northwestern University in Qatar, advising undergraduate students in both the journalism and communication programs. She holds a B.S. in sociology from Iowa State University and an M.A. in higher education and student affairs from Ohio State University.

andrew mills is an assistant professor in the journalism program at Northwestern University in Qatar. As a journalist, he is particularly interested in telling stories about the migration of people and its impact. In 2011, he led a field reporting trip to Europe to chronicle the lives of North Africans who migrated during the Arab Spring. He also helped lead www.RefugeeLives.org, a project...

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