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Ebtihal Mahadeen University of York |
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Web Page: | https://http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cws/researchst/ebtihalm.htm |
List Affiliations: | List Editor for H-Gender-MidEast |
Interests: | Middle East History / Studies Sociology Women, Gender, and Sexuality |
Bio: Ebtihal Mahadeen is a Jordanian feminist. She previously worked as a reporter and an online editor in Amman. She currently lives in the UK where she is in the final year of her PhD at the Centre for Women's Studies in the University of York. Her research investigates representations of virginity in contemporary Jordanian e-media and explores the intersection between media and sexuality from an Arab perspective. Her research interests include critical and Foucauldian discourse analyses, the politics of representation, Arab women's sexualities, and media. Ebtihal is currently a guest editor of the Graduate Journal of Social Science special edition "Sexuality in Focus" (December, 2012) and has organised an international conference on Arab Women, Media and Sexuality, hosted by the Centre for Women's Studies on May 26th, 2012. |