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Nawal Musleh-Motut

Dr. Nawal Musleh-Motut

Assistant Professor, School of Culture, Media, and Society

School of Culture, Media, and Society

Abbotsford campus, D3425

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Education

PhD, Communication, School of Communication, Simon Fraser University (2019)

MA, Modern Middle Eastern History, Department of History, Simon Fraser University (2006)

BA, Communication (major), Middle Eastern and Islamic History (minor), School of Communication, Simon Fraser University (2004)

Diploma in Radio Broadcast Communications, British Columbia Institute of Technology (1998)

Research Interests

Decolonial theory and praxis; critical intersectional social justice; critical race/anti-racism theory and praxis; critical, imaginative, and performative ethnography; visual culture; narrative and storytelling; solidarity and the creation of decolonial futurities between Indigenous, Palestinian, and Black communities globally.

 

Publications

Books

Musleh-Motut, N. (2023). Connecting the Holocaust and the Nakba Through Photograph-based Storytelling: Willing the Impossible. Palgrave Macmillan.

Refereed Journal Articles

Musleh-Motut, N. (2019). Comics Images & the Art of Witnessing: A Visual Analysis of Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza. Arab Studies Journal, XXVII(1), 62-89.

Musleh-Motut, N. (2015). From Palestine to the Canadian Diaspora: The Multiple Social Biographies of the Musleh Family's Photographic Archive. Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 8(2-3), 307-326. 

Musleh-Motut, N. (2012). Negotiating Palestine Through the Familial Gaze: A Photographic (Post)memory Project. TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, 27, 133-52.

Refereed Web-based Publications

Musleh-Motut, N. (2016). Witnessing in Palestinian-Israeli Peacebuilding. Center for Empathy in International Affairs. Available at http://www.centerforempathy.org/witnessing-in-palestinian-israeli-peacebuilding.

Other Publications

Musleh-Motut, N. (2015, May 12). Report for the “Know the Ledge We’re On: From Accountability to Activist Research” Workshop. Vancouver: The Centre for Policy Studies on Culture and Communities (CPCC), Simon Fraser University (SFU).

Murray, C. A., S. Halasz, N. Musleh, and A. Sahota. (2002). Silent on the Set: Cultural Diversity and Race in English Canadian TV Drama. Hull: Strategic Research and Analysis (SRA), Strategic Policy and Research, Department of Canadian Heritage.

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