Biography
Dima Dabbous-Sensenig is director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. From 2002 to 2005, she taught graduate and undergraduate courses as an assistant professor of communication at IWSAW; since 2007, she has been editor-in-chief of Al-Raida (The Pioneer), a feminist quarterly published there. She has published several scholarly articles on broadcast regulation in the Arab world, with particular emphasis on public service, cultural diversity, and the effects of the WTO on cultural production and exchange.
Dr. Dabbous-Sensenig has also conducted research on gender and religion and on the portrayal of violence on Arab satellite television; she has participated as an expert on media and gender-sensitive communication policies in working groups organized by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women. She has a PhD in broadcast regulation from the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University in England, an MA in media studies from Concordia University in Canada, and a BA in communication arts from Beirut University College. (01.2010)