Producing the Public in Arab Societies: Media Working Group

Tarik Sabry: Media, Time, and Publicness in a Moroccan Amazigh Village

Tarik Sabry is Reader in media and communication theory at the University of Westminster, where he is member of the Communication and Media Research Institute and the Arab Media Centre. He is author of Cultural Encounters in the Arab World: On Media, the Modern and the Everyday (2010, IB. Tauris) and Editor of Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field (2012, IB. Tauris). He is also co-founder and co-editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and founder of the Journal Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture. He is currently working on two co-edited volumes. The first is on Arab Subcultures: Reflections on Theory and Practice (IB. Tauris 2014), the other a handbook on Media and Culture in the Middle East (Blackwell, 2014). His research interests include time and 'being modern', migration, Arab audiences, Arab popular cultures and Arab contemporary philosophical thought.