Natacha Yazbeck, Ph.D.

Natacha Yazbeck is a multimedia journalist and researcher focusing on race, rights, and invisible structures of discrimination that have survived the digital transition in journalism, the impact of digitization on narratives around war and protest, and the interplay between social media platforms, trauma, and memory. Her writing and photography have published by Penguin, Sage Journals, and Getty Images. A former Middle East correspondent, she covered conflict, politics, and society in Lebanon, Syria, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen for close to a decade for Agence France-Presse (AFP). She holds a Ph.D. in Communication from the Annenberg School, an M.A. in Communication from Annenberg, and an M.A. in Sociology from the American University of Beirut. In addition to her research on conflict, protest, and digitization, as a postdoctoral fellow at the Center on Digital Culture and Society, she will manage events and programming for the Center. Yazbeck is also a 2020 Knight News Innovation Fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism, Columbia University.