Dima Dabbous-Sensenig, Ph.D.
Director
Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World
Lebanese American University
Tel: 961-1-867618 or 867619 (Ext. 1359)
Fax: 961-1-791645
P.O.Box: 13-5053, Chouran Beirut
1102 2801 Lebanon
E-mail: dima.sensenig@lau.edu.lb
Dr. Dima Dabbous-Sensenig is assistant professor of communication and director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University, Beirut.
She has published several scholarly articles on broadcast regulation in the Arab World, with particular emphasis on public service, cultural diversity, and the effects of the WTO on cultural production and exchange. She is currently doing research on gender and religion, and the gendered portrayal of violence on Arab satellite television. She was expert trainer and consultant on an EU project titled “Media Literacy, Decoding the Stereotyping of Arabs and Muslims in the Media Targeting Children and Youth.”
She participated as expert on media and gender-sensitive communication policies in working groups organized by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women (DAW). Recently, she was appointed by the Secretary-General of the United Nations to be among ten international experts participating in the Expert Consultation on “Priorities in follow-up to the ten-year review and appraisal of implementation of the Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action.” This Expert Consultation, organized by DAW, will facilitate the Division’s preparation for and celebration of the 50th session of the Commission on the Status of Women, which will take place in 2006.