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helga is a media scholar of globalization, media technologies, cultural expressions and their relationship to economic and political change in the middle east. she has published work on arab and palestinian broadcasting industries and cinema, internet development, videogames, id cards, checkpoints, and cultural/political spaces of resistance. her book, digital occupation, on communication infrastructures as bordering mechanisms in palestine/israel, is forthcoming. her interest in media is generally in the cultural, political, and economic significance of what happens behind the screens and under the streets. helga is currently reviews editor and serves on the editorial board of the middle east journal of culture and communication [mjcc]

a palestinian, helga grew up in lebanon and oman, and from a young age moved around all around the middle east, western europe and north america. while this has given her the opportunity to become fluent in six languages it has also heightened her need for constant mobility, whether expressed territorially or in other ways. in her life before academia, helga worked as a researcher at sony pictures entertainment and left the media business to start and run her own internet consulting firm

finding a sense of fixity and dimension in being behind the scenes, helga is also a photographer and documentary film-maker

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by email: helga@nyu.edu