[ac·a·dem·ic re·search] 
adj. 1: relating to studies that are liberal or classical rather than technical or vocational
syn: theoretical

v. tr. 1.: to study (something) thoroughly so as to present in a detailed manner
syn: exploration


 

[selected papers: articles, book chapters, etc.]

[note: citations appear as H. Tawil Souri, H. Tawil-Souri, H.T. Souri, or H. Tawil]

Cyber Cartographies of Jerusalem and Palestine
journal article, forthcoming.

Al-Jazeera
encyclopedia entry, Blackwell Encyclopedia of Globalization, Ed. George Ritzer, forthcoming.

Where is the Political in Cultural Studies? In Palestine
International Journal of Cultural Studies, forthcoming.

The Necessary Politics of Palestinian Cultural Studies
in Conceptualising Cultural Studies and Media Studies in the Arab World: Mapping the Field. I.B. Tauris. Edited by Tarik Sabry, forthcoming.

The Uneven Borders and Colored (Im)mobilities of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel
journal article, forthcoming

Colored Identity : The Politics and Materiality of ID Cards in Palestine/Israel
journal article, forthcoming

Qalandia Checkpoint as Space and Non-Place
journal article, forthcoming

What Media Polity? Independent Television in the Palestinian Territories, 1994-2005
journal article, forthcoming

Ajami.
review, forthcoming.

A Tale of Love and Darkness.
Review in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communications, forthcoming Winter 2010.

Footnotes in Gaza.
Review in Middle East Journal of Culture and Communications, forthcoming Fall 2010.

Qalandia Checkpoint: The Historical Geography of a Non-Place [link]
in Jerusalem Quarterly 42, Summer 2010.

Walking Nicosia, Imagining Jerusalem [link]
in Re-Public: Re-Imagining Democracy, Special Issue on Cities in Turmoil, August 2010.

Palestinian/Israeli Cinema (various entries) [link]
Historical Dictionary of Middle East Cinema, Eds. Terri Ginsberg and Chris Lippard, 2010.

Towards a Palestinian Cultural Studies [link to pdf]
Guest Editor, Special Issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 2(2) October 2009

The IDF’s YouTube Channel During the 2009 Gaza War [link]
In MediaRes, “Media and Conflict”, March-April 2009

The Political Battlefield of pro-Arab Videogames [link]
in War Isn’t Hell, It’s Entertainment: Essays on Visual Media and the Representation of Conflict
Edited by Rikke Schubart et al. 2009

New Palestinian Centers: An Ethnography of the ‘Checkpoint Economy’ [link]
International Journal of Cultural Studies 12(3): 217-235, Spring 2009

Arab Television in Academic Scholarship [link]
Sociology COMPASS 2: 1400-1415, August 2008

Arab Media and Political Renewal [link]
Review in Particip@tions: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies 5 (1), May 2008

Americanizing Palestine Through Internet Development [link]
in Internationalizing Internet Studies, Eds. Gerard Goggin and Mark McLelland. 2008

The Political Battlefield of pro-Arab Videogames on Palestinian Streets [link]
Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 27(3):536-551, November 2007. Special Issue of Mediated Politics in the Middle East

Global and National Forces for a Nation-State Yet to be Born: The Paradoxes of Palestinian Television Policies [link]
Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture 4(3):4-25, September 2007

Move over Bangalore, here comes... Palestine? Western Funding and 'Internet Development' in the Shrinking Palestinian State
in Global Communications: Towards a Transcultural Political Economy, Eds. Paula Chakravartty and Yuezhi Zhao, 2007: 263-284.

Palestine, Israel and the Politics of Popular Culture.
Review in Journal of Palestine Studies 36(1): 92-93. Autumn 2006.

Marginalizing Palestinian Development: Lessons against peace. [link]
Development 49(2): 75-80, Spring 2006

Women and Media in the Middle East.
Review in Global Media and Communication 2(1): 111-114. April 2006.

Like Twenty Impossibles.
Review in Visual Anthropology Review 21(1): 164-166. March 2006.

Coming Into Being and Flowing Into Exile: History and Trends in Palestinian Film-Making. [link]
Nebula 2(2): 113-140, June 2005

 

[selected presentations: conferences and invited]

[note: listing from 2005 onwards. citations appear as Tawil Souri, H. Tawil-Souri, H. Souri, H.T., or Tawil, H.]

The Digital Enclosure of Gaza
Gaza: Out of the Margins, BirZeit, Palestinian Territories, October 2010

From Psy-Ops in Lebanon to Cy-Ops in Gaza: Israel's New Media Strategies of War
Global Media and War, London, September 2010

Preserving and Creating a Digital Palestine?
World Congress of Middle East Studies WOCMES, Barcelona, July 2010

'Enclosing' Palestine: From Land to Internet
American Association of Geographers, April 2010

Virtually Mapping Palestinian Dis-/Re-Appearances
American Association of Geographers, April 2010

Israeli Air Power
Radars and Fences 3, New York University, March 2010

Spaces of Palestinian New Media Activism
Center for Contemporary Arab Studies, Georgetown University, March 2010

Mapping ‘Palestine’
Mapping, Memory and the City, School of Architecture / School of Politics and Communication Studies, Liverpool, UK, February 2010

The Media(tion) of Palestinian ID Cards
London Middle East Institute and School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, February 2010

Goldsmiths, University of London, February 2010

Alternative Palestinian Media
Communication and Media Research Institute, Westminster University, London, February 2010

Israeli Air Power: Media Technologies in Times of War
Middle East Centre, St. Antony's College, University of Oxford, February 2010

Préserver et créer une nation numérique: les archives Palestiniennes sur Internet
Les archives, la société et les sciences humaines. Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches Archives Nationales, Economiques, et Sociales de Tunisie. Tunis, February 2010

Theorizing Arab Media Activism and Resistance
Middle East Studies Assocation, November 2009

Television Intervention and Cinematic Disregard: Two Facets of the West’s Role in Palestinian Media
Cultural Studies Assocation, April 2009

Orange, Green, and Blue: Color-Coded Paperwork for Palestinian Population Control
The New Transparency Workshop on States of Exception, Surveillance and Population Management: The Case of Israel-Palestine, December 2008

The In/Visible Politics of Arab Film
Middle East Studies Assocation, November 2008

New Media Technologies in the Arab World: Prospects and Perils for Economic and Political Transformations
Transnational Popular Culture Industries Symposium, Center for Global Studies, Center for International Business Education and Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, October 2007

Building Arab Information States: A Critique of the World Economic Forum's Education Initiatives in Jordan, Egypt and the Palestinian Territories
International Association for Media and Communications Research, July 2007

Arab TV Screens' Challenges to Modernity and Modernization
International Association for Media and Communications Research, July 2007

The Networked 'Terrorists': History and Analysis of Pro-Arab Video Games
International Communication Association, May 2007

Internet in the Absence of a State: On-Line Realities in the Palestinian Territories
Beyond Media Censorship: Speech and the State in the Middle East, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, April 2007

Crossroads of Competing Narratives: Trends in Palestinian Film-Making
Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 2007

Palestinians in the Media: Negotiating Representations, Articulating National Identity
Middle East Studies Association, November 2006

IT Development and the Rise of Hamas: Both Facets of The Failure of Western Aid?
Middle East Studies Association, November 2006

The Internet in Palestine: The Contradictions of Western Economic Development and the Rise of Islamic Movements.
AoIR, September 2006

Checkpoints: On the Margins, New Centers of Palestinian Life
The Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, September 26, 2006

The Rise of a Different Clash? New Arab Media and Islamic Traditions.
Internationalising Media Studies, September 2006.

The Internet in Palestine: The Contradictions of Western Economic Development and the Marginalization of Islamic Movements
International Association for Media and Communications Research, July 2006

The Center Disconnected: Palestinian media’s isolated existence
International Communications Association, June 2006

Palestinianness through Media: Refugee, Diaspora and Territorial Negotiations of Palestinian Identity
International Communications Association, June 2006

Checkpoints: The New Urbanized Centers of Palestinian Social and Economic Life
Mid East Cities and War Panel, NYU Metropolitan Studies, April 2006

45 Stations All Tuned to Al Jazeera: Fragmented Palestinian Television.
Princeton University, The Institute for Transregional Study of the Contemporary Middle East, North Africa and Central Asia, December 2005

Increasing Economic Dependency through 'Internet Development.' A Case Study of the Palestinian Territories.
AoIR, November 2005

From Real to Virtual Conflict: Palestinian Kids and On-line Games.
AoIR, November 2005

Under Pressure: Where to Get Intifada News in the Palestinian Territories.
IAMCR, July 2005

Palestinian Contradictions: Gaining Communicative Rights without Political and Economic Justice.
A Rights Revolution, Boulder, April 2005