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Ph.D. University of Denver, Communication Studies (Rhetoric and Cultural Studies) 2017
MA American University, Public Communication, School of Communication Washington, DC (Cum Laude) 2004
B.A. American University, Public Communication, Minor in Sociology, Washington, DC (Cum Laude) 2003
Teaching Experience
Current Position
Assistant Vice President of Research (Finance and Implementation), Research Sector, Kuwait University
Associate Professor, Department of Mass Communication, Kuwait University
March 2022-2024
Assistant Vice President of External Research (Collaboration and Consultation), Research Sector, Kuwait University
Spring 2015
Communication Instructor, University of Denver-Reiman School of Finance, Course: Writing and Organizational Communication (for first year MA students)
Fall 2015
Communication Instructor, University of Denver-Reiman School of Finance, Course: Business and Professional Communication (for first year MA students)
Fall 2015
Teacher Assistant, University of Denver- Communication Studies, Course: Monsters in Popular Culture
Spring 2015
Teacher Assistant, University of Denver- Communication Studies, Course: Intersectional Feminism
CORPORATE/GOVERNMENT WORK EXPERIENCE
February 2012-September 2012
His Highness the Amir’s Office - National Youth Project (Media Committee):
June 2010-February2012
Prime Minister’s Office, Kuwait - Office of Tony Blair - Communications Unit: Strategic & Operations Manager
March 2009-June2010
Gulf Bank, Kuwait - Marketing Department (Public Relations): Manager External Communications
August 2009-March 2009
Gulf Bank, Kuwait - Marketing Department (Public Relations): Associate Manager External Communications
2006- 2009
Jusoor Arabiya Leadership and Consultancy, Kuwait: Communications and Business Development Director
2005-2006
Global Investment House, Kuwait-Marketing Department: Senior Marketing Executive
2004-2005
Global Investment House, Kuwait-Marketing Department: Marketing Analyst
Whiteness Studies, Intersectional Feminism, Postcolonial Studies, Critical Communication, Cultural Studies, Rhetoric
Media and Society, Global Communication, Research Methods
Books
Ghabra, Haneen, Muslim Women and White Femininity: Reenactment and Resistance, Peter Lang
الغبرا، حنين. ) ٢٠٢١ ). النساء المسلمات في مواجهة الأنوثية البيضاء التماهي والمقاومة. المؤسسة العربية للدراسات والنشر
Ghabra, Haneen, Fatima Zahrae Chrifi Alaoui, Shadee Abdi and Bernadette Marie
Calafell. Voices in Middle Eastern and North African Communication and Cultural Studies: Thinking Transnationally.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
- Ghabra, H. (2024). A Critical Feminist Intersectional Narrative: Merging Narrative with Rhetorical Criticism in Communication Studies. Journal of Social Sciences, Kuwait University
- Ghabra, H. (2024). This Isn’t a Place Like Iraq or Afghanistan”: Coverage of the Russian Invasion of Ukraine and the Muslim Other. Critical Studies in Media Communication (Accepted).
- Ghabra, H. (2024). Ethical communication: Exploring representations of Bedoon and migrant workers in the Kuwaiti TV show: From Haram Street. Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research (Accepted).
- Ghabra, H. S. (2023). Men Sharea El Haram: The Ethics of Masculinity and its Vernacular discourse in Kuwaiti Television. Howard Journal of Communications.
- Ghabra, H., & Al Nashmi, E. (2023). Ontological Security: A Critical Analysis of Israel’s Normalization With the Gulf Cooperation Council in Exit 7. Communication Inquiry.
- Ebrahim, H., & Ghabra, H. (2021). “Get that Shrimp”: A Public Relations Campaign and the Ethics of the Construction of Masculinity in Kuwait”. Journal of Social Sciences, 49(2).
- Ghabra, H. (2020). Performative communication: Palestinian resistance, hip-hop and cyberspace performances. The Communication Review, 181–102. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2020.1832415
- Ghabra, H. (2020). Don’t say his name: The terror attacks in New Zealand and the Ethics of White allyship. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17513057.2020.1849773
- Ghabra, H., & Hasian, M. (2020). World War Z, The Zombie Apocalypse, and the Israeli state’s monstering of Palestinian “others.” Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 17(2), 182–198.
- Ghabra, H., & Hasian, M. (2018). Tough Love: A Diasporic Critique of the Palestinian Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions Movement. Journal of Communication Inquiry, 3(4), 100–189. https://doi.org/10.1177/0196859918783459
- Ghabra, H., & Calafell, B. M. (2018). From failure and allyship to feminist solidarities: Negotiating our privileges and oppressions across borders. Text and Performance Quarterly, 38(1–2), 38–54. https://doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2018.1457173
- Ghabra, H. S. (2015). Disrupting Privileged and Oppressed Spaces: Reflecting Ethically on My Arabness through Feminist Autoethnography. Kaleidoscope: A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research, 14, 1–16.
- Ghabra, H. (2015). Beauty and the Beast: An Abusive Tale as Old as Time: Reinforcing Notions of Masculinity, Abuse and Neoliberal Anxiety through Popular Culture. Monster and the Monstrous-Inter-Discplinary Press, 5(2), 25–40.
الغبرا حنين شفيق. "من خلال نظرتي الخاصة: نظرة نسوية عربية تكافَح بالعروبة البطريركية من خلال الهيمنة الغربية". مجلة إضافات (٢٠١٩) العددان ٤٧-٤٨.
الغبرا حنين شفيق وﺷﮭﺪ اﻟﺸﻤﺮي. "التغير في العنصرية في حياتنا اليومية البياض والإعاقة والذكورة في المجتمع الأكاديمي". مجلة إضافات (مقبول للنشر) .2021
Special Issue Journal
Lead Editors of Special Issue Journal
Afifi, W., & Ghabra, H. (2022). Writing Occupied Palestine: Toward a field of Palestinian Communication and Cultural Studies. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 15(4).
Afifi, W., & Ghabra, H. (2022). Introduction: Writing Occupied Palestine: Toward a field of Palestinian Communication and Cultural Studies. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 15(4), 355–359.
Book Chapters
Afifi, W., & Ghabra, H. (2023). Palestine and Settler Colonialism: Understanding Mental Health. In The Routledge Handbook of Ethnicity and Race in Communication. Routledge.
Haneen Ghabra, and Bernadette Calafell. ‘Intersectional Reflexivity and Decolonial Rhetorics from Palestine to Aztlán.’” Rhetorics Elsewhere an Otherwise: Contested Modernities, Decolonial Visions, edited by Romeo Garcia and Baca, Damian, National Council of Teachers of English, 2019.
Ghabra, Haneen S., Sergio F. Juarez, Shanna K. Kattari, Miranda Olzman, and Bernadette Marie
Calafell. “Critical Pedagogy: Exploring Our Oppressions and Privileges through Reflexivity, Responsibility and Resistance.” Race, Equity and Higher Education: The Continued Search for Critical and Inclusive Pedagogies around the Globe. Ed. Frank Tuitt, Chayla Haynes, and Saran Stewart. Sterling: Stylus Publishing, 2016. 186–204. Print.
Al Saif, Bader, and Haneen Ghabra. “Higher Education and Contestation in the State of Kuwait after the Arab Spring: Identity Construction & Ideologies of Domination in the American University of Kuwait.” Education and the Arab Spring: Shifting Toward Democracy. Ed. Eid Mohamed, Hannah Gerber, and Slimane Aboulkacem. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, 2016. 97–114. Print.
Book Reviews
Ghabra, Haneen Shafeeq and Bernadette Marie Calafell. “Book Review: Diana and Beyond: White
Femininity, National Identity, and Contemporary Media Culture by Raka Shome.” Rhetoric and Public Affairs, vol. 20, no. 1, 2017, pp. 186-189.
Ghabra, Haneen. “Review of Marouf Hasian’s book: Humanitarian Aid and the Impoverished Rhetoric of Celebrity Advocacy.” Iowa Journal of Communication, Vol 49 no. 2, 2017.
Ghabra, Haneen. “Review of Feriel Ben Mahmoud’s film: Feminism Inshallah: A History of Arab Feminism. Women’s Studies in Communication. Vol. 41, no. 1, 2018, pp. 84-86