Hatim El-Hibri
Hatim El-Hibri
Associate Professor
Global media and television studies, Middle East and Arab media studies, visual culture studies, urban studies, infrastructure studies, critical theory, platform studies, media theory and history, cultural studies
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Beirut: The Urban Life of Media Infrastructure (Duke University Press, 2021) was awarded the Jane Jacobs Book Award by the Urban Communication Foundation.
He is currently working on a book titled Streaming the Crisis.
Prior to joining George Mason, he was a faculty member of the Media Studies Program at the American University of Beirut.
Selected Publications
“The Direct Address, Affect, and Mediated Temporalities in Lebanon's 2019 Uprising,” Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Vol. 46, No. 2 (2026): 266-279. https://doi.org/10.1215/1089201X-12513684
"Serializing Islamophobia: Anti-Muslim Racial Paranoia and HBO’s The Night Of,” New Review of Film and Television Studies (2026): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/17400309.2026.2632442
El-Hibri, Hatim, Joe F. Khalil, Marc Steinberg, Lin Zhang, and Rahul Mukherjee. “States and Platform Capitalisms: A Conversation.” Platforms & Society, Vol. 2 (2025): 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1177/29768624251395354
“Sailing Like there is Still a Horizon,” Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Vol. 8, No. 2 (Fall 2023) Link
Co-editor (with William L. Youmans) of "Producing the Middle East” and "Introduction," Special Issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Vol. 16, No. 2 (2023): 111-114. link
Co-author (with Kaveh Askari) “Documents, Archives, Absence: Current Challenges and Insights from Media Research in the Middle East and Beyond” in The Wiley-Blackwell Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East, eds. Joe F. Khalil, Gholam Khiabany, Tourya Guaaybess, and Bilge Yesil (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023): 147-161. link
“The Elisions of Televised Solidarity and the 2014 Lebanese Broadcast for Gaza” in Gaza on Screen, ed. Nadia Yaqub (Duke University Press, 2023): 187-206. link
“The Urban Condition and Its Imaginaries: Perspectives from the Arab World,” World Humanities Report, Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes (2023) Link
“The Cultural Logic of Visibility in the Arab Uprisings.” International Journal of Communication, Vol 8 (2014): 835-852. link
“Mapping Beirut: Toward a History of the Translation of Space from the French Mandate through the Civil War (1920-91).” The Arab World Geographer, Vol 12, Nos. 3-4 (2010): 119-135.
Courses Taught
Selected Courses:
ENGH 270 Intro to Screen Cultures
ENGH 362/570 Middle East Media and Global Culture
ENGH 371 Global TV
ENGH 372 Intro to Film
ENGH 474/670 Streaming Media
ENGH 470 Research Seminar: Media, Politics, and Melodrama
ENGH 472 Film and Revolution
CULT 860 Global Media Industries and TV
HNRS 353 Television, Technology, and Power
Education
Ph.D - Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
MA - Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University
BA - Psychology, Rutgers University