NabilÌýEchchaibi

  • Director
  • MEDIA STUDIES

Nabil Echchaibi is professor of media studies and director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the Âé¶¹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ. His research and teaching focus on media, religion, and the politics and poetics of Muslim visibility. He is the author ofÌýVoicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin, Between Culture and Renewal and the co-editor ofÌýInternational Blogging: Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang);ÌýMedia and Religion: The Global View (De Gruyter); andÌýThe Thirdspaces of Digital Religion (Routledge). His scholarly work has appeared in various journals and in many book volumes. His opinion columns have been published inÌýThe Guardian, Forbes, Al-Jazeera, Salon, LatinoRebel andÌýReligion Dispatches and in publications in France and Morocco. Echchaibi is currently writing his book, Unmosquing Islam, Media and Fugitive Muslimness, which calls into view the blackmail of a regime of transparency that governs the visibility of Muslims and reclaims the lived experience of Muslimness by insisting on its fugitivity and instability away from an imaginary of enmity and fixed ontology. He teaches courses on media and globalization; sports and media; critical theory, communication, and media; decoloniality and media studies; and race, diaspora and media. He is the co-editor of the journalÌýCultural Studies.