OSUN Faculty

Sara Mourad

American University in Bulgaria

Sara Mourad is a writer interested in the relation between desire, deviance, and dissidence and the fictions/frictions of private and public life. She has published on these subjects in English and Arabic and her writings have appeared in the International Journal of Communication, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Jadaliyya, Al Jumhuriya, Rusted Radishes, and Megaphone among others.

She received her PhD in Communication from University of Pennsylvania. Since 2016, she is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies, and founder and co-director of the Women & Gender Studies program at the American University of Beirut. She is currently working on her first monograph on women’s auto/biographical practices and the making of female subjectivity in contemporary Lebanon; her writing was supported by a Human Rights and the Arts grant of the Open Society Foundation. She recently contributed to the anthology The Lebanon Uprising of 2019: Voices from the Revolution (I.B. Tauris, 2022). In 2018, she was a Global Visiting Scholar at NYU’s Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality. In 2021/22, she is an EUME fellow at the Forum for Transregional Studies in Berlin.

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