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Shadia Husseini

University of Münster
Department for Geography

Geopolitical representations of “the world”, “the self”, and “the other” in transnational Arab print media (Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Paul Reuber, University of Münster, Department of Geography)

Shadia Husseini studied Geography and Middle East Studies at the University of Münster and received her Diploma in 2005. After she finished her studies, she worked as a research assistant in the INTERREG-project “Zuwanderer integrieren!” at the University of Münster, Department of Geography. Since 2006 she is a member of the Graduate School within the Humanism Project.

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Dissertation

The terror attacks of 9/11 have generated a lot of discussion about the relation between the “West” and “Islam” all over the world. It is not only the “Clash of Civilizations” which is up for debate, but many different concepts and ideas about geopolitical world orders, world views and identities. The aim of the dissertations project is to reveal constructions like these in pan-Arab newspapers. It focuses on the following questions: Which concepts of the world order and identity conceptions of “self” and “other” are (re)produced in the Arab media? Which are dominant and which are marginal? In which political and historical context did these constructions emerge and develop? The work is placed in the field of new cultural geography, postcolonialism, and discourse theories.