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Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

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School of Journalism and Mass Communication                                                                               
University of Colorado at Boulder                                          
1511 University Ave.
478 UCB
Boulder, CO 80309
Nabil.Echchaibi@Colorado.edu
303-492-8246
303-492-0969 fax

Assistant Professor Nabil Echchaibi joined CU in 2007. He specializes in identity politics among young Muslims in the Arab world and in diaspora. His work on diasporic media and the massification of religious authority through the proliferation of Islamic media has appeared in various international publications such as Javnost, International Communication Gazette, Journal of Intercultural Studies, Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, Media Development. Echchaibi is currently working on a manuscript on the social organization of transnational Islamic communication, which analyzes the impact of satellite television and religious blogging on religious authority, Muslim self-agency, and the prospect of a global Muslim civil society. For the next two years. Echchaibi will be the principle investigator on a project funded by the Social Science Research Council, which will compile a cultural history of Muslims in the Mountain West region. The project will produce an interactive web resource and a documentary film. His book “Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal” is forthcoming with Lexington Books in the fall of 2009. His co-edited book “International Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics” was published in 2008 by Peter Lang Publishing. Prior to joining CU, he taught at Franklin College in Lugano, Switzerland, where he helped set up the international communication department, the University of Louisville and Indiana University-Bloomington. A native of Morocco. Echchaibi earned his BA from Mohammed V University in Rabat and his MA and PhD from Indiana University-Bloomington. He is currently the associate director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado-Boulder.

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“Islam in a New Media Age”

 

   
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