Dina Matar

Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication at the School of Oriental and African Studies, She is director of the Department of Media Studies and former Chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies, SOAS. Much of her published work deals with political communication in the Arab world, media and war, social movements and media, Palestinian identity and memory, Palestinian oral history, marginal politics. Dina is author of “What is Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood” (2010) and co-editor with Tawil-Souri of “Gaza as Metaphor” (2016). She is editor of Reframing Political Communication of the Middle East and North Africa (2025). She is the co-founding editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and  currently serves on the editorial collective of Communication, Culture and Critique.