Teaching

Teaching & Supervision

My academic teaching experience spans undergraduate and postgraduate education in Palestine and the United Kingdom. My teaching and supervision cover media and communication, digital media, political communication, journalism, research methods and related interdisciplinary fields.

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Teaching Experience

University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

  • Teaching contributions in October–December 2025.
  • SOC3 – Modern Societies II: Global Social Problems and Dynamics of Resistance.
  • SOC7 – Media, Culture and Society.
  • These contributions took place during my Visiting Researcher period in the Department of Sociology.

Gaza University, Islamic University of Gaza and Al-Quds Open University, Palestine

  • University teaching across undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, September 2020–November 2023.
  • Teaching in media, communication, journalism, digital media, discourse analysis and research methods.

Islamic University of Gaza, Palestine

  • Online teaching: Media Topics in English, MA Media and Journalism programme, March–June 2024.

Areas of Teaching Expertise

  • Media, Culture and Society
  • Digital Media and Digital Discourse
  • Political Communication
  • Journalism and Specialised Journalism
  • Mass Communication Research Methods
  • Digital Narratives and Multimodal Communication
  • Media Production and Broadcasting
  • Media and Journalistic Translation
  • Diplomacy and International Relations
  • Oral Communication and Media English

Postgraduate Supervision

My postgraduate supervision includes research in media, communication, digital platforms, organisational identity and political communication.

Current MA Supervision – Arab American University, Palestine

  • Organisational identity and social media: Research examining how Palestinian secondary schools construct and communicate their organisational identity through social media.
  • TikTok, audience engagement and Palestinian narratives: Research examining TikTok influencer videos, audience engagement and the mobilisation of international awareness of the Palestinian narrative during the October 2023 war.

Completed MA Supervision

  • Gaza University: Supervision of an MA dissertation examining international media coverage of the assassination of Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh through critical discourse analysis (completed May 2025).
  • Newcastle University: First supervisor for completed MA dissertations during 2017–2019.

Examination

University of Cambridge – MPhil Examination

Examiner of an MPhil dissertation examining strategic messaging and Telegram communication following 7 October, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, June 2025.