Dima Dabbous

CONFERENCE PAPERS/ PRESENTATIONS HIGHLIGHTS

• Speaker, "Strengthening Public Service Broadcasting in the MENA region: Stakes, methodology, and assessment", paper presented at the conference titled "Arab Public Broadcasters in a Time of Change" organized by the Mediterranean Observatory of Communication (OMEC) at the Open University of Barcelona and the Institut Panos Paris, Amman, December 9-10, 2011.
• Speaker, "The challenge of introducing reform in media legislation and practice in Lebanon", session on: "Promoting Media Freedoms Worldwide: Case Studies"organized by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Paris, July 22-25, 2007.
• Speaker, "Religious discourse and women in al-Jazeera talk shows", session on: "Television in a Global Context: Gender, Religion, Family and Sex" organized by the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Paris, July 22-25, 2007.
• Speaker, "Speaking in His name? Gender, language, and religion in the Arab media" presented during the conference titled "Between Renewal and Tradition: Shari'a as Discourse", organized by the Research Priority Area Religion in the 21st Century (University of Copenhagen) and the Danish Institute (Damascus), Copenhagen, March, 20-22, 2007.

INVITED LECTURES/INTERNATIONAL

• Invited lecture, titled “Lebanese Women and Qur’anic Exegesis in the 1920s: the case of Nazira Zeinedine”, College of Arts & Sciences, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, November 16, 2012.
• Panel discussion, “Women Moderating Extremism”, part of the John F. Kennedy Jr. Forum series, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Boston, January 13, 2010.
• Panel discussion, “Moderating Extremism: Lebanese Leaders’ Perspective”, The Woodrow Wilson International Centre for Scholars, Washington D.C., January 21, 2010.
• Invited lecture titled “Al-Jazeera: Religious Moderation or Extremism?”, The John F. Kennedy School of Government, Institute for Inclusive Security, Harvard University, Boston, January 11, 2010.
• Panel discussion, “Knowledge, Empowerment, Politics: Gender Research and Activism”, part of a conference titled “Gender research and women’s grassroots activism”, Danish-Arab Research Conference, Aalborg University, Denmark, May 13-15, 2009.
• Invited lecture,“Gender, Language, Media and Religion”, Department of Political Science, Carl von Ossietzky Universitat Oldenburg, Germany. The lecture was organised by the Politics and Gender-Transnational Research and Teaching Network, as part of the German-Arab University Dialogue, November 21, 2006.