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Helga Tawil-Souri

{{short description| Palestinian American academic}}

{{use dmy dates |date=May 2024}}

{{Infobox scholar

| name = Helga Tawil Souri

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|11|16}}

| birth_place = Kuwait

| era = Contemporary

| school_tradition = Critical theory, political economy

}}

{{Palestinians}}

Helga Tawil-Souri ({{langx|ar|هلجا طويل-الصوري}}) (born in Kuwait in 1969) is a Palestinian-American Associate Professor of Media, Culture, and Communication, an associate professor of Middle East and Islamic Studies and a Director of Graduate Studies New York University Steinhardt. Her work focuses on technology, media, culture, territory and politics, with a focus on Palestine and Israel.{{cite web |url=https://steinhardt.nyu.edu/people/helga-tawil-souri |title=Helga Tawil-Souri |website=NYU Steinhardt|access-date=31 May 2024}}

She has also produced a number of documentary films.{{cite web|title=Helga Tawil-Souri |publisher=NYU Steinhardt|access-date=2010-01-23|url=http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/helga_tawil_souri|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100610141319/http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/helga_tawil_souri|archive-date=2010-06-10|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|title=Film maker Visits Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon |publisher=Voices of Palestine |access-date=2010-01-23 |url=http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/alertcomp.asp?id=105 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725181433/http://www.voicesofpalestine.org/alertcomp.asp?id=105 |archive-date=2011-07-25 }}

Tawil-Souri holds a BA from McGill University (1992), an MA from the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication (1994), and a PhD from the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Colorado, Boulder (2005).{{cite web|title=Curriculum Vitae|publisher=NYU Steinhardt|access-date=2010-01-24|url=http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/004/113/tawilsouri-CV-web-09.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100617060622/http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/scmsAdmin/uploads/004/113/tawilsouri-CV-web-09.pdf|archive-date=17 June 2010|url-status=dead}}

Film career

Her documentary, "Not Going There, Don’t Belong Here", was completed in 2002 and filmed in November 2001 in various refugee camps in Lebanon. The film has aired on Free Speech TV, various public broadcasting channels in the U.S., at universities and film festivals in the U.S. and abroad.{{cite web|title=Film screenings by Palestinian Student Association |publisher=Colorado State University |access-date=2010-01-23 |url=http://comment.colostate.edu/index.asp?page=display_article&article_id=-212042989 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100805135141/http://comment.colostate.edu/index.asp?page=display_article&article_id=-212042989 |archive-date=2010-08-05 }}{{cite web|title=6th Annual Arab Film Festival 2002 |publisher=Artsopolis |access-date=2010-01-23 |url=http://www.artsopolis.com/event/detail/439 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110728063519/http://www.artsopolis.com/event/detail/439 |archive-date=2011-07-28 }}

"i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]" was filmed in the Palestinian West Bank village of Jabaa and completed in 2004. The filmmaker considers it an experimental documentary film that juxtaposes the sounds and images of war and violence with traditional culture, filmed in the West Bank during the Second Intifada.{{cite web|title=isochronism [twenty four hours in jabaa]|date=2 September 2009 |publisher=YouTube|access-date=31 May 2024|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLuZqVv9zw}}

Tawil-Souri's research has focused on Americanization of the Palestinian Territories through Internet development.{{cite web|title=Interview Archives: Middle East |publisher=WILL (AM) |access-date=2010-01-23 |url=http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interviews/category/Middle%20East/P50/ |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091106002954/http://will.illinois.edu/focus580/interviews/category/Middle%20East/P50/ |archive-date=2009-11-06 }} One of her book chapters{{cite book|title=Internationalizing Internet Studies: Beyond Anglophone Paradigms|access-date=2010-02-04|url=https://archive.org/details/internationalizi0000unse_p6y6|url-access=registration|pages=[https://archive.org/details/internationalizi0000unse_p6y6/page/32 32]–47|publisher=Routledge | isbn=978-0-415-95625-3|author8=Gerard Goggin, Mark McLelland|year=2009|chapter=Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development}} was adapted into a seminar on information society and multiculturalism at Yeungnam University.{{cite web|title=Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development |publisher=Yeungnam University |access-date=2010-01-23 |url=http://english-webometrics.yu.ac.kr/wwi/data/publication/internationalizing/AmericanizingPalestineThroughInternet(5Oct2009).pdf }}{{dead link|date=March 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

She was noted in a review of another book chapter{{cite book|title=Global communications: toward a transcultural political economy|access-date=2010-02-04|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mIdzm1imHb0C|pages=263–284|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc. | isbn=978-0-7425-4044-6|author8=Paula Chakravartty, Yuezhi Zhao|year=2008}} for challenging some of the traditional theoretical assumptions in discussions of global communications.{{cite journal|title=Review: Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao (eds), Global Communications: ...|author=Janet Wasko|access-date=2010-02-04|url=http://ejc.sagepub.com/cgi/pdf_extract/24/4/495|pages=495–497|journal=European Journal of Communication|year=2009|volume=24|issue=4}} Her addressing of controversial issues about politics and video games has been the subject of discussion in the media.{{cite web|title=Me Against The Keyboard|access-date=2010-02-04|url=http://gerodimos.blogspot.com/2005_10_01_archive.html}}{{dead link |date=May 2024 |fix-attempted=yes}}{{cite web|title=Press TV The Autograph|website=YouTube |access-date=2011-10-07|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_UVgrUE0J8|url-status=dead|archive-date=2016-05-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160516233431/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7_UVgrUE0J8}}

Tawil-Souri was on the editorial board of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, an academic peer-reviewed journal published by Brill.{{cite web|title=Editorial Board|access-date=2012-06-08|url=http://www.brill.nl/middle-east-journal-culture-and-communication#EDIBOA_1|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120629042015/http://www.brill.nl/middle-east-journal-culture-and-communication#EDIBOA_1|archive-date=2012-06-29|url-status=dead}}

Tawil-Souri was an invited speaker at the 2nd Annual Social Good Summit along with Desmond Tutu, Elie Wiesel, Ted Turner, Lance Armstrong, Geena Davis and Mary Robinson. The Summit was sponsored by Mashable and the United Nations Foundation, held at the 92nd Street Y in New York City in September, 2011 and brought together global leaders to discuss the most challenging problems facing humanity.{{cite web|title=Social Good Summit |website=Mashable |access-date=2012-06-08 |url=http://mashable.com/sgs/twentyeleven/ |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130128094635/http://mashable.com/sgs/twentyeleven/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=2013-01-28 }}

Articles

  • {{cite journal | title=Cinema as the Space to Transgress Palestine's Territorial Trap | journal=Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication | volume=7 | issue=2 | date=2014 | pages=169–189 | doi=10.1163/18739865-00702005 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/mjcc/7/2/article-p169_5.xml | last1=Tawil-Souri | first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal |date=2014 |title=Intifada 3.0? Cyber colonialism and Palestinian resistance |journal=Arab Studies Journal |volume=22 |issue=1 |jstor=24877901 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/24877901 |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga |last2=Aouragh |first2=Miriyam |pages=102–133 }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Digital occupation: Gaza's high-tech enclosure |journal=Journal of Palestine Studies |volume=41 |issue=2 |date=2012 |pages=27–43 |doi=10.1525/jps.2012.XLI.2.27 |url=https://ciaotest.cc.columbia.edu/journals/jps/v41i2/f_0025106_20500.pdf |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal | title=It's Still About the Power of Place | journal=Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication | volume=5 | issue=1 | date=2012 | pages=86–95 | doi=10.1163/187398612X624418 |url=https://brill.com/view/journals/mjcc/5/1/article-p86_12.xml | last1=Tawil-Souri | first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1367877911408656 |title=Where is the Political in Cultural Studies? In Palestine |journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies |volume=16 |issue=1 |pages=467–482 |date=2011|doi=10.1177/1367877911408656 |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal |url=http://socialtext.dukejournals.org/content/29/2_107/67.short |title=Colored Identity: The Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel |journal=Social Text |volume=29 |issue=2 (107) |pages=67–97 |date=2011|doi=10.1215/01642472-1259488 }}
  • {{cite web |url=https://ssrn.com/abstract=1764251 |title=The Hi-Tech Enclosure of Gaza}} In {{cite book|editor-first=Mahrene |editor-last=Larudee |title=Gaza – Palestine: Out of the Margins |date=2011 |url=https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/86429486.pdf}}
  • {{cite journal |title=Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Nonplace |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1206331210389260 |journal=Space and Culture |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=4–26 |date=2011|doi=10.1177/1206331210389260 |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga |bibcode=2011SpCul..14....4T }}
  • {{cite web |url=http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=2746 |title=Walking Nicosia, Imagining Jerusalem |website=Re-Public |date=2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110822074911/http://www.re-public.gr/en/?p=2746 |archive-date=22 August 2011 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=http://www.brill.nl/downloads/MJCC-002-02-Editorial.pdf |title=Towards Palestinian Cultural Studies |journal=Middle East Journal of Communication and Culture |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=181–185 |date=Fall 2009|doi=10.1163/187398509X12476683126383b |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222065324/http://www.brill.nl/downloads/MJCC-002-02-Editorial.pdf |archive-date=22 February 2012 |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal |title=New Palestinian Centers: An Ethnography of the 'Checkpoint Economy' |url=https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1367877908101572 |journal=International Journal of Cultural Studies |volume=12 |issue=3 |pages=217–235 |date=2009|doi=10.1177/1367877908101572 }}
  • {{cite journal |url=http://cssaame.dukejournals.org/cgi/pdf_extract/27/3/536?ck=nck |title=The Political Battlefield of Pro-Arab Videogames on Palestinian Streets |journal=Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East |volume=27 |issue=3 |pages=536–551 |date=Fall 2007|doi=10.1215/1089201x-2007-031 |last1=Souri |first1=Helga Tawil }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Global and Local Forces for a Nation-State Yet to Be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies |journal=Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture |volume=4 |issue=3 |pages=4–25 |date=September 2007 |doi=10.16997/wpcc.94 |url=https://www.westminsterpapers.org/article/id/78/ |last1=Tawil-Souri |first1=Helga }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons Against Peace |journal=Development |volume=49 |issue=2 |pages=75–80 |date=March 2006 |doi=10.1057/palgrave.development.1100248 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/palgrave.development.1100248 |last1=Souri |first1=Helga Tawil }}
  • {{cite journal |title=Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making |journal=Nebula |volume=2 |issue=2 |pages=113–140 |date=June 2005 |url=https://edisciplinas.usp.br/pluginfile.php/5685140/mod_resource/content/1/Tawil-PalestinianFilm.pdf}}

Documentary films

  • [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oLuZqVv9zw i.so.chro.nism: [twenty-four hours in jabaa]]
  • Not Going There, Don't Belong Here

External links

  • [http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/mcc/faculty_bios/view/Helga_Tawil-Souri Steinhardt faculty website]
  • [https://web.archive.org/web/20100610141319/http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/profiles/faculty/helga_tawil_souri Faculty profile]
  • [http://helga.com/ helga.com]

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Category:McGill University alumni

Category:USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni

Category:University of Colorado Boulder alumni

Category:New York University faculty

Category:1969 births

Category:Living people

Category:21st-century Palestinian academics

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Category:American people of Palestinian descent

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Category:21st-century Palestinian women writers

Category:20th-century Palestinian women writers

Category:Women documentary filmmakers