Marwan M. Kraidy

Marwan M. Kraidy is the Anthony Shadid Chair in Global Media, Politics and Culture and Director of the Project for Advanced Research in Global Communication, at the Annenberg School, University of Pennsylvania. He has been the Edward Said Chair in American Studies at the American University of Beirut, the Dupront Chair at CELSA Université-Sorbonne, and the Bonnier Professor at Stockholm University. The recipient of Guggenheim, ACLS, NEH, Woodrow Wilson and NIAS fellowships, Kraidy has published 120+ essays and 8 books, including Hybridity, or the Cultural Logic of Globalization (Temple, 2005), Reality Television and Arab Politics (Cambridge, 2010), which won three major prizes. Kraidy’s The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World is forthcoming from Harvard University Press in May 2016. He tweets at @MKraidy.