Nabil Echchaibi

Nabil Echchaibi is Associate Professor and founding chair of the Department of Media Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research is situated at the crossroad of important contemporary issues such as identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and reflecting modern religious subjectivities among Muslims in the Middle East and in diaspora. His work on diasporic media and the leveling of religious authority through the proliferation of Islamic media has appeared in various journal publications and book volumes. He is the author of Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal (Lexington Books 2011) and co-editor of International Blogging : Identity, Politics and Networked Publics (Peter Lang 2009).