Omar Al-Ghazzi is a doctoral student at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg
School for Communication. His research focuses on
the ways collective memory and popular imaginations of history, as presented
and contested in popular culture and journalism, shape constructions of Arab
political identities. A former Fulbright fellow, he has completed a Master’s
degree in International Relations at the American University in Washington D.C.
and a Bachelor’s degree in Communication Arts at the Lebanese American
University in Beirut, Lebanon. Omar comes from a journalism and media analysis
professional background and has previously worked for the BBC and Al-Hayat
Arabic daily.