Joe F. Khalil
Educator, Researcher, Media Flâneur
About Joe F. Khalil
Joe F. Khalil is an Associate Professor of Global Media in residence at Northwestern University Qatar. With a passion for the ever-evolving media landscape, he focuses his research and teaching efforts on Middle East youth and their relationship with the media. Khalil’s approach is interdisciplinary and transnational, allowing him to better understand both mainstream and alternative media.
In addition to his teaching and research endeavors, Khalil is an accomplished author. His most recent work, with Mohamed Zayani, is The Digital Double Bind: Change and Stasis in The Middle East (Oxford University Press, 2024). He is also a co-editor of the Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East (Wiley-Blackwell, 2023).
RESEARCH
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- MEDIA INDUSTRIES
- ALTERNATIVE MEDIA
JOURNAL ARTICLES
Zayani, Mohamed, and Joe F. Khalil. (2024) Reckoning with the Legacy of the Digital: Toward a Renewed Quest for Modernity in the Middle East, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication(published online ahead of print 2024), doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18739865-tat00011
Khalil, J. F., & Zayani, M. (2022). Digitality and Music Streaming in the Middle East: Anghami and the Burgeoning Startup Culture. International Journal of Communication , 16, 19.
Khalil, J. F., & Zayani, M. (2022). Digitality and Debordered Spaces in the Era of Streaming: A Global South Perspective. Television & New Media, 23(2), 167-183.
Khalil, J. F., & Zayani, M. (2021). De-territorialized digital capitalism and the predicament of the nation-state: Netflix in Arabia. Media, Culture & Society, 43(2), 201-218.
Khalil, J. F. (2017). Lebanon’s waste crisis: An exercise of participation rights. New Media & Society, 19(5), 701-712.
Livingstone, S., Lemish, D., Lim, S. S., Bulger, M., Cabello, P., Claro, M., … & Wei, B. (2017). Global perspectives on children’s digital opportunities: An emerging research and policy agenda. Pediatrics, 140 (Supplement_2), S137-S141.
Khalil, J. F. (2017). From Big Brother to Al Maleka: The growing pains of TV format trade in the Arab region. International Journal of Digital Television, 8(1), 29-46.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Khalil, J. F., & Zayani, M. (2023). Streaming the Middle East. In Bouquillion, P. Ithurbide, C. and Matterlart, T. Digital Platforms and the Global South: Reconfiguring Power Relations in the Cultural Industries, (Pp 165 -181).
Khalil, J. F. (2023) Dialectics of Resistance: Youth in the Middle East. In The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East, pp. 513-519. John Wiley&Sons Inc. : Hoboken NJ USA.
Khalil, J. F. (2023). Digital media institutions in the Middle East: Continuing legacies and emerging disjunctures. In Flew, T., Holt, J. & Thomasds.). The SAGE Handbook of the Digital Media Economy. (pp. 405-425). London: SAGE.
Khalil, J. F. (2019). Television in the Arab Region: History, Structure, and Transformations. In Wasko, J. & Meehan, E. (Eds.). A companion to Television. (pp. 439-458). Wiley-Blackwell.
Khalil J. F. (2019). Arab Television Industries: Enduring Players and Emerging Alternatives. In Shimpach, S. (Ed.). The Routledge Companion to Global Television. (pp. 401-410) Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions.
Khalil, J. F. (2019). Neo-Tajdeed? Rap in Saudi Arabia And Tunisia. In Sabry, T., & Khalil, J. F. (Eds.). Culture, Time and Publics in the Arab world: Media, Public Space, and Temporality. (pp. 113-136) IB Tauris.
Khalil, J. F. (2018). Turning murders into public executions: ‘beheading videos’ as alternative media. In G. Meikle (Ed). The Routledge Companion to Media and Activism. (pp. 232-240). Routledge.
Pike, K. & Khalil, J. F. (2017). Gender, Music Videos, and Arab Youth: The Curious Case of Mini Studio. In N. Sakr & J. Steemers (Eds.), Children's TV and Digital Media in the Arab World: Childhood, Screen Content and Press (pp. 138-162). IB Tauris.
Research Grants
MEMBERSHIPS
TEACHING
PRESENTATIONS
Conference Presentations
“Beyond controversies, Netflix Originals for the Middle East and their consumption paradox” Paper presented at the Southern Digitalities Conference organized by the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Global South, February 2023.
“Beyond controversies, Netflix Originals for the Middle East and their consumption paradox” Paper presented at the annual conference, International Association of Media and Communication Researchers’ (IAMCR), July 2022.
“Digital Media Institutions in the Middle East: Continuing Legacies and Emerging Disjunctures” paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, May 2022.
“Reconsidering Media Territoriality in Light of Middle East Streaming Services.” paper presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference, May 2022. [with M. Zayani]
“Netflix in the Global South: Social Platforms, Digital Capitalism and State Protectionism” paper presented at the Western States Communications Association (WSCA) February, 2022. [with M. Zayani].
Invited presentations
Accessibility and AI.” UNESCO Invited panel speaker “Steering AI for Knowledge Societies: UNESCO’s ROAM-X Perspective” at the annual conference, International Association of Media and Communication Researchers’ (IAMCR), Spain, July 2019.
Media Industries and the Academy: Research Opportunities and Challenges.” Invited plenary speaker at the inaugural Media Industries Conference, King’s College, London, UK, April 20, 2018.
Local Pull/Global Push: Audiences and Business in Arab Entertainment Television” invited presentation at Fresh Global Media Conference: Redistributing Communication Power, Doha, Qatar, February 21, 2015.
Al Jabiri’s Arab Cultural Time – Reflections [in Arabic]” an invited presentation at the Arab Council for Social Sciences Annual Conference, Beirut, March 14, 2015.
From Europe to the Arab World, Arab Media Cities and the Production of Culture” an invited public lecture at the Center for Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies (CIMES), California State University, San Bernardino, USA, October 30, 2014.