Ebtihal Mahadeen
Lecturer
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
- School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures
Contact details
Address
- Street
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Room 2.8
19 George Square - City
- Edinburgh
- Post code
- EH8 9LD
Availability
My office hours are 13:00 – 14:00, on Tuesday.
Background
Dr. Mahadeen's research focuses on the intersection of gender, sexuality, and media within an Arab context. She has a professional background in reporting and online media, and has previously produced critical feminist analyses of female virginity in Jordanian media for her doctorate. Before coming to Edinburgh, Dr Mahadeen was a visiting scholar at the Council for British Research in the Levant in Amman, Jordan, and worked simultaneously as a Research Consultant with the Arab Foundation for Freedoms and Equality.
Undergraduate teaching
I am course organiser for the following courses:
- Gender and Media in the Arab World
- Reading Arab Feminist Texts: Key Debates on Women's Rights in the Arab World
I guest lecture on the following team-taught courses:
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Cultures
Past:
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Research Skills and Methods for IMES Dissertations
Postgraduate teaching
I am course organiser for:
- Gender and Media in the Arab World
- Critical Readings in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
I guest lecture on the following team-taught courses:
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Research Skills and Methods in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
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Research Methods and Problems in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Past:
- Diasporas of the Middle East
- Advanced Issues in the Study of the Middle East
Open to PhD supervision enquiries?
Yes
Areas of interest for supervision
I welcome supervision enquiries on any of these areas: gender and sexuality in the MENA region, femininity and masculinity, contemporary Arab media.
Current PhD students supervised
- Ameerah Alshehri: Magical Realism in Middle Eastern Female-Authored Novels
- Adam Ferron
Past PhD students supervised
- Jona Fras: Linguistic Practice on Contemporary Jordanian Radio: Publics and Participation
Research summary
- Gender and sexuality in the Middle East, particularly Jordan and the Levant
- Arab feminist media studies
- Sexuality in Islam
- Gendered politics of culture in the Levant
- The mediated constructions of Arab femininity/masculinity
- The media as sites of hegemony and resistance
- Micro and discursive media analyses
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The Jordanian press and new media
Research output: › Chapter (Accepted/In press) -
“Marginalised opinions, uncensored voices, and unabashed attitudes”: LGBT Pop-Activism in Jordan
In:
British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (In preparation) -
Hymen reconstruction surgery in Jordan: Sexual politics and the economy of virginity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351133678
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Published) -
Militarist masculinity, militarist femininity: A gendered analysis of Jordan’s War on the Islamic State
Research output: › Chapter (peer-reviewed) (Accepted/In press) -
‘The martyr of dawn’: Femicide in Jordanian media
In:
Crime, Media, Culture, vol. 13, pp. 41-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1741659016643120
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Arabizing "Masculinity"
In:
Journal of Middle East Women's Studies, vol. 12, pp. 450-452
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/15525864-3637653
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Media, state, and patriarchy: Discourses of state control in Jordanian discussions of virginity
In:
Feminist Media Studies, vol. 15
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2015.1028422
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
New modes of communication: Web representations and Blogs: Jordan
In:
Encyclopaedia of Women in Islamic Culture, vol. XI
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Doctors and sheikhs: "Truths" in virginity discourse in Jordanian media
In:
Journal of International Women's Studies, vol. 14, pp. 80-94
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published) -
Reflecting on media texts as platforms for sexuality research in Arab countries: The case of Jordan
In:
The Graduate Journal of Social Science , vol. 9, pp. 47-53
Research output: Contribution to Journal › Article (Published)