Dr Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at Centre for Global Media and Communications, addresses Antony Blinken’s neo-colonial attitude to Afghanistan in a new piece written for TRT News linked here Image credit: “Afghanistan visit” by The U.S. Army is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at CGMC, explores Biden’s challenges dealing with Afghanistan in a new piece written for TRT News linked here. Image credit: “Afghan farmer – Pioneering Vet clinic in Taliban country” by Helmandblog is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at CGMC, analyses one of the key challenges that Biden faces in global politics in a new piece written for TRT News linked here. Image credit: “Vice President Joe Biden visit to Israel March 2016” by U.S. Embassy Jerusalem is licensed under CC BY 2.0
Dr Masoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at CGMC, explores the recent tensions between Iran and the US in a new post on TRT linked here. Image credit: “File:Sardar Qasem Soleimani-04.jpg” by sayyed shahab-o- din vajedi is licensed under CC BY 4.0
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at CGMC, explores the motives behind and the implications of the assassination in a piece for the BBC, linked here. Image credit: “Hijab-3” by pooyan is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Ms Chipo Mapondera, graduate student MA Digital Cultures, CGMC, presents an interview with the esteemed journalist Veronica Pedrosa in a podcast on SOAS Radio, entitled, Global Digital Futures: Media Spectacle & Democracy in the Philippines, linked here.
On 10 July 2020, the Iranian Judiciary announced that three men, namely Amirhossein Moradi, Saeed Tamjidi and Mohamad Rajabi, who were arrested in anti-regime protests in November 2019, were to be imminently executed as they had been denied appeal. Within three days of the announcement, the Persian hashtag #اعدام_نکنید (“Don’t_Execute”) started appearing on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook. By 14 July, the hashtag was trending globally on Twitter with many inside
Dr Massoumeh Torfeh, Research Associate at the Centre for Global Media and Communications, explores the fading chances of rescuing the nuclear deal between Iran and the US in a new article for RT Link to article
Dr Dina Matar, Centre for Global Media and Communications, explores political reactions to the COVID-19 in the Middle Eastern media in an Insight Briefing for School of Interdisciplinary Studies, SOAS.
Philosopher Martha Nussbaum once wrote that playful storytelling “teaches people to be capable of living with others without control; [and] connects experiences of vulnerability and surprise to curiosity and wonder, rather than to crippling anxiety” (2010, p. 101). Her work on vulnerability has helped critical communication scholars shift their focus away from the structural power of media, which has been overstudied, to organic and informal communication practices that can enable
