Marwan M Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is an internationally renowned scholar of global communication, who specialises in Arab media, culture, politics, and the geopolitics of global media. He is the Dean and CEO of Northwestern University in Qatar and the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture at Northwestern University. In 2021, he founded the Institute for Advanced Study in the Global South, promoting interdisciplinary research on the histories, cultures, societies, and media of the Global South. He has authored 13 award-winning books and more than 130 scholarly articles, essays, and chapters. His acclaimed book, The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World, received several prestigious awards. A Guggenheim Fellow and Andrew Carnegie Fellow, Kraidy has held distinguished academic appointments at leading universities worldwide, including the University of Pennsylvania, the American University of Beirut, and Stockholm University. He holds a PhD in Mass Communication from Ohio University and is fluent in Arabic, English, and French.