Dr Noha Mellor

Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies, Kingston University

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Overview
Qualifications
Career Highlights
Research
Media Highlights
Professional Body Membership

Overview

Noha Mellor is Reader in Media & Cultural Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences. She is also the author of The Making of Arab News (2005), Modern Arab Journalism (2007), Arab Journalists in Transnational Media (2011) and Arab Media Industries (2011).

Her main research interest is journalism, media and diversity and media and gender. Besides her academic experience, she has previous professional experience in journalism as a news producer both for Danmarks Radio (Danish Broadcasting) and the BBC World Service. She is still a regular contributor to international media publications such as the New York Times and Financial Times.

Egyptian by birth, she also contributes her expertise in Arab journalism and societies to current trans-national initiatives to promote peace, e.g. her contribution to the media Initiative of the EUROMED (EU partnership with Mediterranean countries) as well as the Alliance of Civilizations Initiative under the auspices of the UN.

She has been an elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, and is a member of the Arab International Women Forum, Arab Creative Women, and the Empowering Women of Middle East And North Africa Group.

Qualifications

Year gained	Subject
2005	PhD, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2003	MA, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
2000	BA, Linguistics, Copenhagen University, Denmark.
1990	BA, English & Arab Studies, Cairo University, Egypt.

Career Highlights

Year	Position held
2008	Senior Lecturer in Media & Cultural Studies, FASS, Kingston University.
2006 - 2008	Senior Lecturer in Journalism, School of Social Sciences, Media & Cultural Studies, University of East London.
2005 - 2006	News Producer, BBC World Service.
2002 - 2004	Lecturer, Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
2001 - 2004	Editor/Journalist, Danish Broadcasting Corp.

Research

Books (single-authored)

2011 Arab journalists in transnational media. Hampton Press.

2011 (co-author) Arab Media Industries. Cambridge: Polity.

2007 Modern Arab Journalism. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

2005 The Making of Arab News. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield.

2003 Compendium in contrastive Danish-Arabic syntax. Copenhagen: Special-pædagogisk Forlag (in Danish).

Edited volumes

2010 Arab creative women. Special issue of Viewpoints, August 2010. Washington, DC: the Middle East Institute.

2010 The role of gender in Arab media. Special issue of The Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research, Vol. 3(3), December 2010. London: Intellect.

Book chapters

2011 Covering 9/11 in pan-Arab press. In B Zelizer & Allan Stuart (eds.) Journalism after 9/11, 2nd edition. London & NY: Routledge.

2009 Journalists as Eyewitnesses. In M Al Rashid (ed.) Dying for Faith. London: I.B. Tauris.

2008a Journalism and Media Entrepreneurship. In Mellor et al., The Entrepreneurship Handbook. London: Sage.

2008b The paradox of Saudi media monopoly in the Arab region. In M al-Rasheed (ed.) Kingdom Without Borders. London: Hurst.

Peer-reviewed scholarly articles (single authored- in chronological order)

2008 Arab journalists as cultural intermediaries, International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 13(4): 465-483.

2009 Politics of Mitigation. Critical Discourse Studies. Vol. 6 (1), February 2009: 31-49.

2009 Strategies for Autonomy. Arab journalists reflecting on their roles. Journalism studies. Vol. 10(3): 307-321.

2009 War as a Moral Discourse. International Communication Gazette, Vol. 71(5).

2009 The rise of a media kingdom. Viewpoints - Saudi Arabia 1979-2009, Vol. 5. Washington, DC: Middle East Institute.

2010 Is there an Islamic media theory? Journalism Practice, Vol. 4(2).

2010 Empowering Women through the Arts. Viewpoints, August 2010. Washington DC.

2010 A collective diasporic power? The challenge of unionizing Arab Journalists in transnational media. Journalism Practice, Vol. 4(4).

2010 More than a Parrot' - The Case of Saudi Women Journalists', Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 3: 3, pp. 207-222.

2010 Assessing the role of Arab women in the media sector', Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research 3: 3, pp. 151-157.

2012(in press) Arab journalists reflecting on their journalistic ethics. Feminist Media Studies, Vol 12, 3.

Media Highlights

An accomplished journalist, Noha has done numerous media interviews, most recently on the current political climate in Egypt. In January 2012 she was a guest on "Seven Days", the BBC Arabic programme, which reviews a week of media coverage in the Arab world and compares it with the coverage afforded the same topics by the British and American press.

Professional Body Membership

Royal Society of Arts.

Arab-American Communication Educators group.

Member of the jury, Middle East Broadcasting Award (2006-7).

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