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Dr Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso

BA., MA., MA., PhD

 
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Biography

Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso is Assistant Professor/Lecturer in Global Media and Journalism in the School of English, Media and Creative Arts at the University of Galway. Prior to working in academia, Rounwah worked in higher education administration and several international and civil organizations such as the United Nations, International Organization for Migration, and the Palestine Land Society with renowned Palestinian researcher Dr. Salman Abu-Sitta. 

Academic Biography: Rounwah completed her BA with a double major (joint honours) in political science  and international development at McGill University in 2005, followed by her MA in International Human Rights Law (summa cum laude) at the American University in Cairo, in 2007. She then completed her second masters in Global Media and Postnational Communication at the School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS)-University of London in 2008. Rounwah completed her PhD in Media Studies from SOAS in 2018. Rounwah taught in Kuwait before she began her permanent appointment at the University of Galway in July 2024.  

Research, Practice and Publications: Rounwah's research interests are in media and political practices/communication, media literacy and disinformation, decolonial thought and practice, resistance narratives and visual culture, with special emphasis on the Global South (in particular the Arab region, where she has lived in several different countries for over twenty five years).  Rounwah's first monograph Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt: Liminal Spaces and Cultural Production After 2011 (I.B. Tauris, 2023) is part of the first scholarly series entitled "Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa" published by Bloomsbury Academic that engages with a de-colonial, non-Euro centric approach to addressing the relationship between politics, communication and culture in the Middle East and North Africa from the perspective of key actors and states in the region, and its peoples.  Recent publications include a journal article in the Journal of Visual Culture special issue entitled ¿The JVC Palestine Portfolio¿ on the decolonization of language in regards to Palestine (2021), as well as book chapter examining Egyptian revolutionary art through a liminal framework in the edited series entitled Boundaries, Borders and Contestation in the Study and Analysis of Events: Exploring Liminality in Critical Event Studies (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020), co-edited by Ian Lamond and Jonathan Moss, Leeds-Beckett University. 

Rounwah welcomes thesis proposals in areas of media and communications studies, with a particular regional emphasis on the Global South regarding the interdisciplinary relationship with media, culture, decolonial thought/postcolonialism, politics, and communication.

Research Interests

Rounwah's primary research fields include:

  • Media & Communication, (Visual) Cultural Studies
  • Political communication
  • Transnational movements and communication
  • Indigenous movements and culture
  • Popular culture, social movements
  • Colonial and postcolonial studies
  • Decolonization; indigenous studies
  • Political science/international relations
  • International human rights law, refugees
Rounwah welcomes thesis proposals related to these interests, and related areas of research.


Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
(2021) 'Say it Right, Say it in Palestinian ¿ The Decolonization of Language, the Decolonization of Palestine'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2021) 'Say it Right, Say it in Palestinian ¿ The Decolonization of Language, the Decolonization of Palestine'. Journal of Visual Culture, 20 (2) [DOI] [Details]
(2018) 'Art in the Egyptian Revolution: Liberation and Creativity'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2018) 'Art in the Egyptian Revolution: Liberation and Creativity'. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 38 (2) [DOI] [Details]
(2017) 'Revolutionary Art or `Revolutionizing Art'? Making Art on the Streets of Cairo'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2017) 'Revolutionary Art or `Revolutionizing Art'? Making Art on the Streets of Cairo'. Arab Media & Society, Winter/Spring 2017 (23) [Details]

Books

  Year Publication
(2023) Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt: Liminal Spaces and Cultural Production after 2011.
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2023) Revolutionary Art and Politics in Egypt: Liminal Spaces and Cultural Production after 2011. London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing. [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
(2020) 'Egyptian Revolutionary Art through a Liminal Framework'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2020) 'Egyptian Revolutionary Art through a Liminal Framework' In: Boundaries, Borders and Contestation in the Study and Analysis of Events: Exploring Liminality in Critical Event Studies. Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2017) 'Making Art Relevant in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Uprising'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2017) 'Making Art Relevant in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Uprising' In: artWORK: Art, Labour and Activism (Protest, Media, and Culture). London: Rowman and Littlefield International. [Details]
(2013) 'Al-Manar: Cultural Discourse and Representation of Resistance'
Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso (2013) 'Al-Manar: Cultural Discourse and Representation of Resistance' In: Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris / Bloomsbury Publishing. [Details]
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Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Teaching and Learning Committee Member 01-NOV-24 /

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
2008 School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) MA Global Media & Postnational Communication
2005 McGill University Bachelor of Arts International Development & Political Science
2018 School of Oriental & African Studies (SOAS) PhD Media Studies
2007 The American University in Cairo MA International Human Rights Law

Languages

  Language
Arabic
French
English

Other Activities

  Description

LECTURES AND INVITED TALKS Invited to speak at the American University in Kuwait by Fikir AUK, a student led group which encourages active community involvement & personal growth, on the subject of Tolerance and Cultural Diversity February 2019. Invited participant in round-table discussion entitled "The Historical Gulf: Approaches, Archives, and Artifacts" on the current state of the field of Gulf history, organized by the Center for Gulf Studies, American University of Kuwait May 2018. "Understanding Art in the Aftermath of the Egyptian Revolution" Invited Lecture by Oxford University's Africa Society, University of Oxford April 2018. "Revolutionizing Art on Cairo's Streets", Presenter on the Political Art Panel in the conference Troubled Contemporary Art Practices in the Middle East: Post-colonial conflicts, Pedagogies of art history, and Precarious artistic mobilization, organized by Birkbeck University of London | University of Nicosia June 2016. "Contesting the Role and Relationship of Art and the Political on the Streets of Cairo," Presenter on the Art, Activism, & Institutions Panel in the Techniques of Art and Protest Conference, organized by the Politically Led Art & Networked Knowledge (PLANK) research group, King's College, London, September 2015. "Narrating long-term conflict in Palestine and Lebanon: Images, discourse and practices," Reader & Panel Member in the Political Communication Research section, organized by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference, Kadir Has University July 2011.

Teaching Interests

My specialisms include media and political practices/communication, media literacy and disinformation, decolonial thought and practice, resistance narratives and visual culture, with special emphasis on the Global South (in particular the Arab region).

Modules Taught

  Term/Year Module Title Module Code Subject / Desc
S1 / 2024 Introduction to Media and Communication AJ1102
S2 / 2024 Bursting the Western Bubble: Alternative Media Systems and the Global South AJ4113
S2 / 2025 The Media and Global Migration AJ2123
S2 / 2025 Researching the Media DJ6122
S2 / 2025 Strategic Communication DJ6137