Dr Omar Al-Ghazzi is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He works on the geopolitics of global communications, particularly in relation to news media and popular culture. He investigates the political contestation of narratives around digital technologies, as well as of representations of time and memory, with a focus on the Middle East and North Africa. His peer-reviewed work has appeared in academic journals in communications, journalism and cultural studies. He is currently completing a book on the politics of history in Arab media. He is an editor in the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and an elected member of the International Council of the International Association of Media and Communication Research. Dr Al-Ghazzi earned his PhD from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. He holds MAs in Communication from the University of Pennsylvania and American University and a BA in Communication Arts from the Lebanese American University. Prior to joining LSE, he was Lecturer in Journalism at the University of Sheffield. Al-Ghazzi comes from a journalism professional background and has previously worked for Al-Hayat Arabic daily and BBC Monitoring.