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.

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