Helga Tawil-Souri

Helga Tawil-Souri (Arabic: هلجا طويل-الصوري‎) (born in Kuwait in 1969) is a Palestinian-American media scholar and documentary filmmaker.[1][2] Tawil-Souri is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication and Middle East and Islamic Studies at New York University. Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University (1992), an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication (1994), and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2005).[3]

Helga Tawil Souri
Born (1969-11-16) November 16, 1969
Kuwait
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Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.[2][4][5]

"i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]" was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.[6]

Tawil-Souri's research has focused on Americanization of the Palestinian Territories through Internet development.[7] One of her book chapters[8] was adapted into a seminar on information society and multiculturalism at Yeungnam University.[9] She was noted in a review of another book chapter[10] for challenging some of the traditional theoretical assumptions in discussions of global communications.[11] Her addressing of controversial issues about politics and video games has been the subject of discussion in the media.[12][13]

Tawil-Souri is on the Editorial Board of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, an academic peer reviewed journal published by Brill.[14]

Tawil-Souri was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit along with Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Ted Turner, Lance Armstrong, Geena Davis and Mary Robinson. The Summit was sponsored by Mashable and the United Nations Foundation, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in September, 2011 and brought together global leaders to discuss the most challenging problems facing humanity.[15]

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Documentary Films

References
  1. "Helga Tawil-Souri - Faculty Profiles - NYU Steinhardt". NYU Steinhardt. Archived from the original on 2010-06-10. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  2. "Film maker Visits Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon". Voices of Palestine. Archived from the original on 2011-07-25. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  3. "Curriculum Vitae" (PDF). NYU Steinhardt. Retrieved 2010-01-24.
  4. "Film screenings by Palestinian Student Association". Colorado State University. Archived from the original on 2010-08-05. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  5. "6th Annual Arab Film Festival 2002". Artsopolis. Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  6. "isochronism [twenty four hours in jabaa]". YouTube. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  7. "Interview Archives: Middle East". WILL (AM). Archived from the original on 2009-11-06. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  8. Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms. Routledge. 2009. pp. 32–47. ISBN 978-0-415-95625-3. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  9. "Americanizing Palestine Through Internet" (PDF). Yeungnam University. Retrieved 2010-01-23.
  10. Global communications: toward a transcultural political economy. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. 2008. pp. 263–284. ISBN 978-0-7425-4044-6. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  11. Janet Wasko (2009). "Review: Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao (eds), Global Communications: ..." European Journal of Communication. 24 (4): 495–497. Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  12. "Me Against The Keyboard". Retrieved 2010-02-04.
  13. "Press TV The Autograph". Retrieved 2011-10-07.
  14. "Editorial Board". Archived from the original on 2012-06-29. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
  15. "Social Good Summit". Archived from the original on 2013-01-28. Retrieved 2012-06-08.
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