Rounwah Adly Riyadh Bseiso is Assistant ProfessorLecturer 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 amp; 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 Public - No restrictionations: Rounwahsresearch interests are in media and political practicescommunication, 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). Rounwahs 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 Public - No restrictionations 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 interdiscipl inary relationship with media, culture, decolonial thoughtpostcolonialism, politics, and communication.

Rounwahs primary research fields include:Media amp; 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 scienceinternational relations Media and migrationrefugees Rounwah welcomes thesis proposals related to these interests, and related areas of research.

My specialisms include media and political practicescommunication, 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).