Ahlam Muhtaseb's guest appearances

Ahlam Muhtaseb

Occupied Thoughts

CSUSB CAL Podcast Series

Oswald Radio Hour

Peter Beinart

Marc Lamont Hill

Ben Rhodes

Yousef Munayyer

Jonathan Kuttab

Omar Shakir

Daniel Levy

DROR ETKES

Lara Friedman

Ghaith al-Omari

Neri Zilber

Ami Ayalon

Seth Anziska

Maha Nassar

Khaled Elgindy

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As Palestinians commemorate 74 years since the Nakba, FMEP’s Palestinian non-resident fellow Dr. Maha Nassar talks with Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb, professor of media studies at California State University, San Bernardino, about her award-winning documentary, “1948: Creation and Catastrophe.“ (www.1948movie.com)Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

As Palestinians commemorate 74 years since the Nakba, FMEP’s Palestinian non-resident fellow Dr. Maha Nassar talks with Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb, professor of media studies at California State University, San Bernardino, about her award-winning documentary, “1948: Creation and Catastrophe.“ (<a href="http://www.1948movie.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">www.1948movie.com</a>) Original music by Jalal Yaquoub.

“1948: Creation and Catastrophe” with Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb & Dr. Maha Nassar

Image: NYTimes article on the foundations of Israel, published during the 1948 Nakba of Palestinians. 

Image: NYTimes article on the foundations of Israel, published during the 1948 Nakba of Palestinians.

Ahlam Muhtaseb on Western Reporting of Palestine

Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb is a professor of media studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Muslim &amp; Arab Worlds (CSMAW) at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the recipient of the 2020 CSUSB Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Award and was one of the 2019-20 Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Faculty Mentor Awardees. She has an M.A. in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Digital Communication from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. Her research interests include digital communication, social media, social justice and diasporic communities. Her most recent project is her award-wining documentary 1948: Creation &amp; Catastrophe. The film, co-produced and co-directed with Andy Trimlett, focuses on the year 1948 and its catastrophic consequences on the Palestinian nation which has originated from her field work in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. She won the 2019 Rebuilding Alliance “Story Teller” Award. The film also won the Jerusalem International Film Festival’s 2019 Special Jury Award in the Feature Documentary category. Currently, she works on a new documentary on the three young Muslims who were murdered in Chapel Hill in 2015, and the state of racism and Islamophobia in the United States.

Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb is a professor of media studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Muslim &amp; Arab Worlds (CSMAW) at California State University, San Bernardino. She is the recipient of the 2020 CSUSB Outstanding Scholarship, Research and Creative Activities Award and was one of the 2019-20 Outstanding Research and Creative Activity Faculty Mentor Awardees. She has an M.A. in Journalism and a Ph.D. in Digital Communication from the University of Memphis, Tennessee. Her research interests include digital communication, social media, social justice and diasporic communities. Her most recent project is her award-wining documentary 1948: Creation &amp; Catastrophe. The film, co-produced and co-directed with Andy Trimlett, focuses on the year 1948 and its catastrophic consequences on the Palestinian nation which has originated from her field work in the Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine. She won the 2019 Rebuilding Alliance “Story Teller” Award. The film also won <a href="https://inside.csusb.edu/node/28706" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">the Jerusalem International Film Festival’s 2019 Special Jury Award in the Feature Documentary category</a>. Currently, she works on a new documentary on the three young Muslims who were murdered in Chapel Hill in 2015, and the state of racism and Islamophobia in the United States.

Dr. Ahlam Muhtaseb, Professor, Communication Studies and Director of the Center for the Study of Muslim & Arab Worlds (CSMAW)