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 director of the Institute for Women’s Studies in the Arab World (IWSAW) at the Lebanese American University in Beirut. Since 2007, she has been editor-in-chief of Al-Raida (The Pioneer), a feminist quarterly published at IWSAW/LAU since 1976. She has published several scholarly articles on broadcast regulation in Lebanon and the Arab world with particular emphasis on public service, cultural diversity, and the effects of the WTO on cultural production and exchange. She has also several publications on the portrayal and discussion of gender and religion on Arab satellite television and has participated as an expert on media and gender-sensitive communication policies in working groups organized by the UN Division for the Advancement of Women. Her current research project is a comparative regional study on the performance of public service television in 8 countries of the MENA region, using a gender perspective. Dabbous-Sensenig’s early career involved working in TV journalism and drama production. She has a doctorate in broadcast regulation from the School of Cultural Studies at Sheffield Hallam University in England; a master’s degree in media studies from Concordia University in Canada; and a bachelor’s degree in communication arts from Beirut University College.