Dr Gholam Khiabany

Gholam studies the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices.

Staff details

Dr Gholam Khiabany

Position

Reader in Media and Communications

Department

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

g.khiabany (@gold.ac.uk)

Gholam Khiabany's academic career has focused on the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices, including alternative media.

His research interests centre on the media and social change and the relationship between communication, development and democracy with particular reference to the Middle East.  Gholam Khiabany is also interested in the debate over multiculturalism, culturalisation of terror, the rise of the security state, and anti-Muslim racism. 

He is the author of Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity (Routledge, 2010),  co-author of Blogistan  with Annabelle Sreberny (I.B.Tauris, 2010), co-editor of Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits (Goldsmiths, 2017), and  After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech (Zed, 2017)

He is an editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and is a member of council of management of the Institute of Race Relations.

Areas of supervision:
Mediated culture in the Middle East; media representation of race, migration and refugees; political activism and alternative/new media; media and religion; political economy of media.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Davis, Aeron; Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des (D. J.) and Khiabany, Gholam. 2020. Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications. London: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526456960

Sreberny, Annabelle and Khiabany, Gholam. 2010. Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781845116064

Khiabany, Gholam. 2009. Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96289-6

Edited Book

Khalil, Joe F.; Khiabany, Gholam; Guaaybess, Tourya and Yesil, Bilge, eds. 2023. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781119637066

Titley, Gavan; Freedman, Des (D. J.) ; Khiabany, Gholam and Mondon, Aurelien, eds. 2017. After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech. London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78360-938-3 pb

Abraham-Hamanoiel, Alejandro; Freedman, Des (D. J.) ; Khiabany, Gholam; Nash, Kate and Petley, Julian, eds. 2017. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 978-1-906897-40-6

Book Section

Sreberny, Annabelle and Khiabany, Gholam. 2023. Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outside the polity. In: Shahram Akbarzadeh, ed. Handbook of Middle East Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 126-143. ISBN 9781802205626

Khiabany, Gholam; Khalil, Joe F.; Guaaybess, Tourya and Yesil, Bilge. 2023. Media and Culture in the Middle East: An Introduction. In: Joe F. Khalil; Gholam Khiabany; Tourya Guaaybess and Bilge Yesil, eds. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley/Blackwell, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781119637066

Khiabany, Gholam. 2023. Intellectuals, Modernities, and the Emerging Public Sphere. In: Joe F. Khalil; Gholam Khiabany; Tourya Guaaybess and Bilge Yesil, eds. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 55-63. ISBN 9781119637066

Article

Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2024. The British State, Citizenship Rights and Gendered Folk Devils: The Case of Shamima Begum. European Journal of Cultural Studies, ISSN 1367-5494

Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des (D. J.) ; Khiabany, Gholam and Williamson, Milly. 2023. Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University. Media Theory, 7(1), pp. 277-298. ISSN 2557-826X

Khiabany, Gholam. 2016. Refugee crisis, imperialism and pitiless wars on the poor. Media, Culture & Society, 38(5), pp. 755-762. ISSN 0163-4437

Conference or Workshop Item

Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2022. 'Critique and Contesting the Vocabularies of the Marketised University'. In: IAMCR Conference. Paris, France.

Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2019. 'State Policy and the Articulation of Racism'. In: IAMCR 2019. Madrid, Spain 7 - 11 July 2019.

Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2014. 'Freedom of Speech: Ours and Theirs'. In: ECREA Diaspora Symposium. Brighton, United Kingdom.