wfn.org | Nabil Echchaibi to lead RCCongress Popular Media Seminar

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> Nabil Echchaibi

Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass 
Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder

> Pre-Congress Seminar:

Global Media, Global Religion: Research on Popular Media and the 
Remaking of Religions

Dr. Nabil Echchaibi joined the faculty of the School of Journalism 
and Mass Communication in the fall of 2007. His teaching and research 
interests revolve around identity politics among young Muslims in 
diaspora and in the Arab world.

Originally from Morocco, he taught in Europe where he helped set up a 
department of international communication at an American college in 
Switzerland. His work on minority media among young North Africans in 
Berlin and Paris has been published in various international journals 
and his book on cultural identities and diasporic radio in Western 
Europe is forthcoming. He is currently co-editing a book on the 
popular embrace of political blogging outside the U.S.

He has been traveling to the Middle East and North Africa to conduct 
fieldwork on the proliferation of Islamic satellite television and 
the role of popular culture in challenging the old reign of clerical 
Islam. Echchaibi received his B.A. from Mohamed V University in Rabat 
and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington.