Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2024
Time: 6:30 PM
Venue: In-Person & Livestreamed
Registration:
Free, registration required.
Lecture: Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam and Digital Media Disruptions
Speaker: Ibrahim N. Abusharif
Ibrahim N. Abusharif, PhD, is an associate professor in residence in the Journalism and Strategic Communication Program. His fields of research include narrative journalism, religious studies, and the decolonization of storytelling. Specifically, his academic interests include the study of the intersections of religion and media, particularly digital media disruptions and their effects on contemporary religious authority. He also researches the origins, promulgation, and effects of key journalistic framing terminologies used in prominent Western news sources in their coverage and reportage of the Middle East and Muslim minorities in the West.
Born and raised in Chicago, he studied the biological sciences as an undergraduate, and later he received his master’s from Northwestern University鈥檚 Medill School of Journalism and his doctorate in religious and Islamic studies from the University of Wales Trinity Saint David.