Nabil EchchaibiNabil Echchaibi

Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado at Boulder

RCCongress 2010 Workshop:

Pre-Congress Seminar

Dr. Nabil Echchaibi joined the faculty of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication in the fall of 2007. His teaching and research interests revolve around identity politics among young Muslims in diaspora and in the Arab world.

Originally from Morocco, he taught in Europe where he helped set up a department of international communication at an American college in Switzerland. His work on minority media among young North Africans in Berlin and Paris has been published in various international journals and his book on cultural identities and diasporic radio in Western Europe is forthcoming. He is currently co-editing a book on the popular embrace of political blogging outside the US.

He has been traveling to the Middle East and North Africa to conduct fieldwork on the proliferation of Islamic satellite television and the role of popular culture in challenging the old reign of clerical Islam. Echchaibi received his B.A. from Mohamed V University in Rabat and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Indiana University-Bloomington.

“ Echchaibi is editing a book on the popular embrace of blogging outside the United States.

It examines how this new use of the Internet has been employed for various purposes such as community building, political activism and independent personal expression. ”

~ Yu Miao in Faculty grows globally; international scholar Echchaibi comes to SJMC

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