PEOPLE: SHAHIRA FAHMY
Shahira Fahmy Office - Marshall 325
Telephone - 520-621 6385
E-mail - sfahmy@email.arizona.edu
Shahira Fahmy joined the UA in August 2008 as an associate professor in the School of Journalism. She has a joint appointment in the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
She comes to the UA from Southern Illinois University, where she taught courses on international communication and media issues, research methods and multimedia publication design. She earned her Ph.D. in 2003 from the Missouri School of Journalism.
Fahmy spent five years working in the news and broadcast industries in Egypt and Italy before pursuing her doctoral studies. She has traveled to more than 20 countries and is fluent in four languages, skills that enabled Fahmy to conduct surveys with embedded reporters worldwide and to conduct surveys of audiences of Al-Jazeera in 67 countries. Her research interests primarily focus on visual communication with an international perspective, as well as political communication and media performance during wartime.
Fahmy has more than 90 refereed publications and invited and refereed convention papers, symposia and panel presentations on the national and international level. Her work has appeared in journals such as Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media, Mass Communication & Society, International Communication Gazette, Visual Communication Quarterly and Newspaper Research Journal.
She is currently a manuscript reviewer for eight scholarly journals and is on the editorial board of Mass Communication & Society, Visual Communication Quarterly, Media, War & Conflict and two international editions of the Global Media Journal.
Fahmy earned her bachelor's and master's degrees at American University in Cairo. At the UA she teaches Directions in News Technology, a course about integrating design and content to build Web pages; Research Methods; Reporting with Multimedia; and classes in the international journalism program.
See the Curriculum Vitae for Professor Shahira Fahmy.