Omar Al-Ghazzi
@omarghazzi.bsky.social
Associate Professor, Deputy Head @lsemedia.bsky.social
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
Research on digital journalism/ war reporting/ mediated history/ communication geopolitics
Editor @ Middle East Journal of Culture & Communication
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New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2
August 18, 2025 at 3:13 PM
New doctor! Congratulations to @oii.ox.ac.uk DPhil student @nsalem.bsky.social Salem who recently passed her viva. Her thesis is titled ‘Museums, Technological Imaginaries, and Subjectivity in the Future-Tense.' 1/2
I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'.
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Do walls still have ears? - Allegra Lab
How can communications studies contribute to anthropological inquiry of Syria? This essay reflects on the architecture that governs silence and speech in
allegralaboratory.net
July 1, 2025 at 8:31 PM
I wrote this essay a few months back in reaction to the fall of Al-Assad. It is published on Allgra Lab as part of a series on 'Recalibrating Syria'.
allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...
allegralaboratory.net/do-walls-sti...
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Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'
May 14, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Next up on panel 1: @omarghazzi.bsky.social from the London School of Economics and Political Science, presented on 'History and Memory.'
We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
LSE Fellow in Media and Communication
LSE Fellow in Media and Communication,
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March 31, 2025 at 4:41 PM
We are recruiting two LSE fellows @lsemedia.bsky.social (one in Media & Communications & another in Global Media & Communications), a great opportunity for early career scholars. Please share and apply! jobs.lse.ac.uk/Vacancies/W/...
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In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.
There are no words.
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.
There are no words.
March 24, 2025 at 1:24 PM
In a targeted attack on his car, Israel has killed Al-Jazeera's
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.
There are no words.
Hossam Shabat, who was only 23 years old and was one of the last remaining journalists in Gaza.
There are no words.
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These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...
February 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
These Israeli leaflets dropped on Gaza are so depraved, so disturbed, that it's difficult to even know what to say 👇
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...
www.owenjones.news/p/israel-dro...
So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻
February 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
So while media avoid calling Palestinian refugees as such, and with talk of mass deportation of refugees, we see this over stretching of the word in other contexts that contributes to eroding its meaning. No those who left twitter are not refugees.. neither are Americans moving to Madrid 🤦🏻
So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Experts urge caution over use of Chinese AI DeepSeek
Oxford professor advises against putting private data on platform in case it could be shared with Chinese state
www.theguardian.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:52 PM
So we should not use this because "you don’t know where the data goes".. as opposed to data going to the likes of Elon Musk, which is totally fine :/
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social).
On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...
On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...
Covering or covering up? Mediating the war on Gaza
CAMRI Research Seminar with Omar al-Ghazzi (London School of Economics)
www.eventbrite.co.uk
January 21, 2025 at 4:09 PM
13 Feb. CAMRI Seminar with Omar Al-Ghazzi (@omarghazzi.bsky.social).
On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...
On Media (Mis)Representation of the War on Gaza.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/covering-o...
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The newly formed Editorial Collective of Communication, Culture & Critique stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸 academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...
A statement on the ongoing genocide in Gaza
Abstract. Communication, Culture and Critique has been the leading venue for critical approaches to communication and media studies. This issue marks the f
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January 18, 2025 at 4:37 PM
The newly formed Editorial Collective of Communication, Culture & Critique stands in solidarity with the Palestinian people. We call on our colleagues to stand against Israeli apartheid and the effects of genocide in Gaza. 🇵🇸 academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-...
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My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
January 14, 2025 at 7:42 PM
My book announcement is live! The official print release date is June 6, 2025 (with an earlier online release in April). Very happy to do virtual or in-person book talks for your class, department, speaker series, activist group, etc. - please reach out! global.oup.com/academic/pro...
Just another day of Israeli occupation...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
Israel admits soldiers used ambulance in raid on refugee camp
Families seek justice after a raid on Balata camp in the West Bank resulted in the death of an 80-year-old woman and another civilian
www.theguardian.com
January 14, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Just another day of Israeli occupation...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...
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"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools.
reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
New College of Florida embraces affirmative action for men
In an attempt to make the student body more conservative, Christopher Rufo says the school is actively "rebalancing" the ratio of male and female students.
reason.com
January 11, 2025 at 1:52 PM
"The demographic overhaul at New College of Florida is perhaps the first real-life attempt to counteract the so-called "feminization" of education": well, maybe the first attempt that's so brazen, but AA for men is a poorly-kept secret at many private schools.
reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
reason.com/2023/08/16/n...
Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
World’s richest use up their fair share of 2025 carbon budget in 10 days
Emissions caused by wealthiest 1% so far this year would take someone from poorest 50% three years to create
www.theguardian.com
January 11, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Two private jets owned by Jeff Bezos, the Amazon founder, release as much carbon as an Amazon employee in the US would in 207 years
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social
January 10, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Day 3 of our @iasnuq.bsky.social 2025 Theory & Method Winter School: Arab & Southern Digitalities begins with a Masterclass with @omarghazzi.bsky.social on historical methods @nuqatar.bsky.social
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The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
Elon Musk gives nod to German far-right party as election looms
U.S. billionaire Elon Musk, set to join President-elect Donald Trump's administration, waded into Germany's election campaign on Friday, calling the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) the country's saviour.
www.reuters.com
December 20, 2024 at 12:08 PM
The de facto co-president and speaker of the house endorses Germany’s neonazi party. www.reuters.com/world/europe...
That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!
December 18, 2024 at 6:49 PM
That's one way to say Israel is an expansionist violent settler state. Hands off Syria!
"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Palestine is most dangerous country for journalists, Reporters Without Borders says
Press freedom NGO describes Israeli killing of reporters working in Gaza as an ‘unprecedented bloodbath’
www.theguardian.com
December 12, 2024 at 8:14 PM
"Palestine is most dangerous country.." what an outrageous and shameful headline that obscures that it's Israel that is killing journalists en masse
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
www.theguardian.com/media/2024/d...
Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.
December 11, 2024 at 12:50 PM
Pics of scantily clothed Bashar Al-Assad are going viral on Syrian social media. Whether authentic or not, the point is that he is subjected to a public stripping of authority (& masculinity). Similar to the fairytale on the emperor's clothes, he lost his clothes as he lost power.
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📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’
Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’
December 10, 2024 at 12:16 PM
📢 CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’
Together with @kaoutarghi.bsky.social, we are curating a special issue for Middle East Critique that seeks to address a fundamental challenge in Middle Eastern and North African politics scholarship: the persistent conceptual confusion surrounding ‘state’ and ‘regime.’
Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.
December 8, 2024 at 8:58 PM
Disturbing that Saidnaya was also a party town. Families used to go dance, eat & drink in dozens of restaurants and clubs near this torture centre. This encapsulates what the fallen regime represents, how it hid its extreme brutality in plain sight and implicated Syrians in it.
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Unimaginable.
The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.
A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”
“What happened?” a woman asks
“The Regime fell. You are free.”
#Syria 🇸🇾
(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)
The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.
A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”
“What happened?” a woman asks
“The Regime fell. You are free.”
#Syria 🇸🇾
(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)
December 8, 2024 at 2:01 PM
Unimaginable.
The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.
A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”
“What happened?” a woman asks
“The Regime fell. You are free.”
#Syria 🇸🇾
(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)
The liberation of the women/children section of Sednaya prison. Cut off from the world, they’ve no idea what’s happened.
A man shouts: “You are all free now. Don’t be scared. Go home.”
“What happened?” a woman asks
“The Regime fell. You are free.”
#Syria 🇸🇾
(🎥Credit: Galyarahal)
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JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.
December 8, 2024 at 7:35 PM
JUST IN: Footage of Syria's rebels liberating secret underground floor at Sednaya Prison, where an estimated 150,000 Syrian civilians were being held without trials.