SOAS Research Online

Authored Books

Matar, Dina, Khatib, Lina and Alshaer, Atef (2014) The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication. London; New York, NY: Hurst and Oxford University Press.

Matar, Dina (2010) What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood. London: I.B. Tauris.

Edited Book or Journal Volume

Matar, Dina, ed. (2017) Special Issue: Communication and Conflict: Iraq and Syria. Leiden: Brill. (Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication; Vol. 10 (2))

Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, eds. (2016) Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst and Co..

Matar, Dina and Harb, Zahera, eds. (2013) Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I.B. Tauris.

Book Chapters

Chamas, Sophie (2024) 'Palestine and the Question of Queer Arab Becoming.' In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine Through Contemporary Media. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 199-210. (SOAS Palestine Studies)

Matar, Dina (2024) 'Introduction: Problematizing political communication theory and praxis in the Middle East and North Africa: Reframing Western-centric debates in times of excessive war.' In: Problematizing political communication in the Middle East and North Africa. Bloomsbury Academic. (Forthcoming)

Matar, Dina and Maher, Sherouk (2023) 'Comparative Analysis of Israeli and PLO Diplomacy Practices during the May 2021 Israeli Attacks against Gaza.' In: Miladi, Noureddine, (ed.), Global Media Coverage of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict: Reporting the Sheikh Jarrah Evictions. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 203-219. (SOAS Palestine Studies)

Matar, Dina and Helmi, Khouloud (2020) 'Liminality; gendering and Syrian alternative media spaces.' In: Maltby, Sarah, O'Loughlin, Ben, Parry, Katy and Roselle, Laura, (eds.), Spaces of War, War of Spaces. London: Bloomsbury, pp. 143-158.

Matar, Dina (2019) 'The struggle over narratives: Palestine as metaphor for imagined spatialities.' In: Iqani, Mehita and Resende, Fernando, (eds.), Media and the Global South: Narrative Territorialities, Cross-Cultural Currents. London: Routledge, pp. 170-185.

Matar, Dina (2017) 'First Framing and News: Lessons from Reporting Jordan in Crises.' In: Harb, Zahera, (ed.), Reporting the Middle East: The Practices of News in the Twenty-First Century. London: I.B. Tauris, pp. 33-49. (Lib of Modern Middle East Studies)

Matar, Dina (2016) 'Narratives and the Syrian Uprising: The Role of Stories in Political Activism and Identity Struggles.' In: Zayani, Mohamed and Merghani, Suzi, (eds.), Bullets and Bulletins: Media and Politics in the Wake of the Arab uprisings. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 89-107.

Matar, Dina (2016) 'Gaza: Image Normalization.' In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst, pp. 173-187.

Sultany, Nimer (2016) 'Repetition.' In: Tawil-Souri, Helga and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst, pp. 203-217.

Alshaer, Atef (2016) 'In the Company of Frantz Fanon: The Israeli Wars and the National Culture of Gaza.' In: Souri, Helga Tawil and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Gaza as Metaphor. London: Hurst;, pp. 141-157.

Matar, Dina (2014) 'A Critical Reflection on Aesthetics and Politics in the Digital Age.' In: Downey, Anthony, (ed.), Uncommon Grounds: New Media and Critical Practice in the Middle East and North Africa. London:. London: I. B. Tauris, pp. 163-168.

Matar, Dina (2014) 'Hassan Nasrallah: the central actor in Hizbullah's Political Communication Strategies.' In: Khatib, Lina, Matar, Dina and Alshaer, Atef, (eds.), The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication. Oxford: Hurst & Co, pp. 153-180.

Toukan, Hanan (2013) 'Negotiating Representation and Re-making War: Transnationalism and Contemporary Art in Post-Taif Lebanon.' In: Harb, Zahera and Matar, Dina, (eds.), Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communication Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: IB Tauris, pp. 58-84. (Library of modern Middle East studies ; v. 121)

Alshaer, Atef (2013) 'Islam in the Narrative of Fatah and Hamas.' In: Matar, Dina and Harb, Zahera, (eds.), Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Lebanon and Palestine. London: I.B Tauris, pp. 111-133.

Matar, Dina (2012) 'Comparative Media Research in the Middle East.' In: Volkmer, Ingrid, (ed.), The Handbook of Global Media Research. London: Wiley Blackwell.

Matar, Dina (2012) 'Foreword.' In: Valassopoulos, Anastasia, (ed.), Arab Cultural Studies: History, Politics and the Popular. London: Routledge.

Matar, Dina (2011) 'Rethinking the Arab State and Culture.' In: Sabry, Tarik, (ed.), Arab Cultural Studies: Mapping the Field. London: I. B. Tauris.

Matar, Dina (2009) 'Performance, Language and Power: Nassrallah’s Mediated Charisma.' In: Bassiouney, Reem, (ed.), Arabic and the Media: Linguistic Analyses and Applications. Leiden: Brill, pp. 141-159.

Matar, Dina (2007) 'News Stories and Disaporic Discourses of Identification: the Palestinians in Britain.' In: Asharzadeh, Alireza et al., (ed.), Diasporic ruptures: globality, migrancy and expressions of identity. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, pp. 155-170.

Matar, Dina (2007) 'Palestinians, News and the Diasporic Condition.' In: Sakr, Naomi, (ed.), Arab Media and Political Renewal: Community, Legitimacy and Public Life. London: I B Tauris, pp. 118-135.

Matar, Dina (2007) 'What it Means to be Palestinian: News and the Diasporic Condition.' In: Sakr, Naomi, (ed.), Arab Media and Political Renewal. London: I B Tauris.

Journal Article

Matar, Dina (2024) 'What it Means to be Palestinian: Reflections on Anti-colonial Identities in Times of Excessive Production and Destruction.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 17. pp. 1-8. (Forthcoming)

Hahn-Herrera, Loreley and Matar, Dina (2024) 'Social movements as news producers: The PSC's self-produced media as an alternative news source.' Journal of Palestine Studies. (Forthcoming)

Matar, Dina (2023) 'The PLO’s political communication arena; struggle over media legitimacy and domination.' British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, 50 (5). pp. 1320-1336.

Matar, Dina and Taha, Mohamed (2023) 'Arab news sources and practices in times crisis: challenges and opportunities for sociology of news research.' Journalism Studies. (Forthcoming)

Matar, Dina (2022) 'Foreword.' Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 15 (4). pp. 360-361.

Matar, Dina (2019) 'The Syrian Regime’s Strategic Communication: Practices and Ideology.' International Journal of Communication, 13. pp. 2398-2416.

Matar, Dina (2018) 'PLO Cultural Activism: Mediating Liberation aesthetics in revolutionary contexts.' Comparative Studies of South Asia Africa and the Middle East, 38 (2). pp. 354-364.

Matar, Dina (2017) 'Introduction: Toward a Sociology of Communication and Conflict: Iraq and Syria.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 10 (2-3). pp. 99-108.

Matar, Dina (2015) 'Hassan Nasrallah: The cultivation of image and language in the making of a charismatic leader.' Culture, Communication and Critique, 8 (3). pp. 433-447.

Matar, Dina (2012) 'Contextualising the Media and the Uprisings: A return to History.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 5 (1). pp. 75-79.

Matar, Dina (2008) 'The Power of Conviction: Nassrallah’s Rhetoric and Mediated Charisma in the context of the 2006 July War.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 1 (2). pp. 122-137.

Matar, Dina (2008) 'Editorial: Communicating Politics in Culture.' Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 1 (2). pp. 97-101.

Matar, Dina (2007) 'Heya Television: A feminist counterpublic for Arab women?' Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 27 (3). pp. 513-525.

Matar, Dina (2007) 'The Palestinians in Britain, News and the Politics of Recognition.' International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, 2 (3). pp. 317-330.

Matar, Dina (2006) 'Diverse Diasporas, One Meta-Narrative: Palestinians in the UK Talking about 11 September 2001.' Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32 (6). pp. 1027-1040.

Matar, Dina and Dakhlallah, Farah (2006) 'What It Means to Be Shiite in Lebanon: Al Manar and the Imagined Community of Resistance.' Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture, 3 (2). pp. 22-40.

Book Reviews

Matar, Dina (2023) 'Review of: 'Gaza on Screen' by Nadia Yaqub.' Media International Australia . (Forthcoming)

Matar, Dina (2022) 'Reviews of: Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, by Gil Z. Hochberg. Duke University Press, 2021. 187 pages. Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, by Nadya Hajj. University of California Press, 2021. 117 pages.' The Middle East Journal, 76 (2). pp. 283-286.

Matar, Dina (2022) 'Palestine and Palestinians. Review of: Becoming Palestine: Toward an Archival Imagination of the Future, by Gil Z. Hochberg, and Networked Refugees: Palestinian Reciprocity and Remittances in the Digital Age, by Nadya Hajj.' The Middle East Journal, 76 (2). pp. 283-286.

Matar, Dina (2017) 'Co-Optation of Third Worldism: Review of 'Mecca of Revolution: Algeria, Decolonization and the Third World Order. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.' Diplomatic History, 41 (3). pp. 654-657.

Matar, Dina (2013) 'Review of "The Global Offensive: The United States, the Palestine Liberation Organization and the Making of the Post-Cold War Order" by Paul Thomas Chamberlin.' Diplomatic History, 38 (1). pp. 226-228.

Matar, Dina (2005) 'Review of Zelizer, B., 'Taking Journalism Seriously: News and the Academy'.' Media and Cultural Politics: Journal of Communication .

Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs

Matar, Dina (2022) Israel's targeting of Palestinian journalists is only getting worse. World Politics Review [Opinion Pieces / Media / Blogs]

Other

Matar, Dina (2021) 'Empowering Women against Structural and Cultural Inequalities.' In: Intercultural Trends and Social Change in the Euro-Mediterranean Region The Anna Lindh Report 2021. Alexandria, Egypt: Anna Lindh Foundation.

Matar, Dina (2017) 'Whose “Ethnic Cleansing?”: Israel’s Appropriation of the Palestinian Narrative (Commentary).' Al-Shabaka: The Palestian Policy Network .