• 1996-2000 Studium von Journalismus und Kommunikationswissenschaft mit B.A. Abschluss an der Kairo Universität, Abschlussnote: Sehr gut

• Februar 2001-Juli 2005: Wissenschaftliche und Lehrassistentin an der Journalistik-Abteilung, Fakultät für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Kairo Universität.

• 2002-2005 M.A. Studium, M.A. Titel: Das Ägyptenbild in deutschen Printmedien, Abschlussnote: Ausgezeichnet

• Juli 2005-September 2007: Senior Research and Assistant Lecturer at the Journalism Department, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University.

• 2007-2013 DAAD Promotionsstipendium Doctoral Degree (Dr. des.) an der Universität Erfurt. Thesis: Framing of Underground- and State Terrorism in Egyptian and German Print Media.

• September-December 2014: DAAD Visiting scholar at the Institut für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft, Freie Universität Berlin.

• 2015 Egyptian project coordinator of the DAAD-funded “Tawasul” research project “Journalism in Transformation in Egypt and beyond” http://www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de/kommwiss/arbeitstellen/internationale_kommunikation/projekte/journalism-in-transformation/index.html

• 2013-2015 PhD Lecturer at Department of Journalism, Faculty of Mass Communication, Cairo University,

• January 2016-March 2019: Postdoctoral Researcher / Institute of Communication and Media Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

Mitgliedschaften

DGPUK: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V.

DAVO: Deutsche Arbeitsgemeinschaft Vorderer Orient

AGYA: Arab-German Young Academy of Sciences and Humanities

AUSACE: Arab-US Association of Communication Educators

AREACORE: The Arab-European Association for Media and Communication Researchers

Außeruniversitäre Aktivitäten

March 2011- August 2015: weekly columnist for the El Dustour newspaper, then El Tahrir daily newspaper.

Dezember 2011 bis Dezember 2012: Press coordinator for the Cairo Climate Talks (CCT) Project, in collaboration with the German Embassy, DAAD and GIZ in Cairo

November 2006 – September 2007: Redakteurin und Übersetzerin am German Information Centre (GIC) an der Deutschen Botschaft Kairo, Webseite: www.almania-info.diplo.de.

Lehrveranstaltungen

Sommersemester 2019

• Vorlesung 28550 - Grundstrukturen des deutschen Mediensystems (zusammen mit Anke Fiedler)
• Hauptseminar 28883 - Media and Peripheries: national and transnational perspectives
• Colloquium 28894 - MA-Colloquium Kommunikationspolitik/Medienökonomie

Wintersemester 2018/2019

• Seminar 28554 - Comparing Media Sytems
• Hauptseminar 28883 - Media and Populism in the EU and beyond

Wintersemester 2017/2018

• Seminar 28552 - Comparing Media Systems

Lehrbereiche

• Mediensysteme im internationalen Vergleich
• Öffentlichkeit im arabischen Raum
• Arabische Mediensysteme
• Medien für Entwicklung
• Media Literacy in the Egyptian context (auf Englisch)
• Introduction to content analysis (auf English, für MA-Studierende am Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo)

Internationale und interkulturelle Kommunikation

Medien und Terrorismus

Medien und politische Transformationsprozesse

Soziale Medien und politischer Wandel

Framing und Auslandsberichterstattung in den Medien

Dialog zwischen dem Islam und dem Westen

Politische Kommunikation

Öffentlichkeit im arabischen Raum

Monographien

Framing von Terrorismus im Nahostkonflikt [Framing Terrorism in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict]. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS, 2017.

Wessen Terrorismus? Das Framing von Untergrund- und Staatsterrorismus im Kontext des israelisch-palästinensischen Konflikts, eine Monographie, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2016.

Herausgeberin

Orient Institut Studies No. 4, 2016 Media Culture in Transformation: Political communication, Social Networking and Transition in Egypt

Zeitschriftenartikel

“Kollektive Selbstbestimmung in Autokratien? Agenda-Building im Zusammenspiel von (digitalen) Medien und Aktivisten bei Anti-Folter-Protesten in Ägypten” [Collective self-determination in autocracies? Agenda-Building and the interplay with (digital) media in anti-torture protests in Egypt], Medien & Kommunikation, Vol. 66, No. 4, 2018. (co-authored)

“Shifting Roles and Freedom of Expression of Private Media Enterprises in Egypt after the political upheavals of 2013”, The Egyptian Brief, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, Vol. 4, No. 34, 2017. (in Arabic)

“Public Sphere, new media and political culture in post-revolutionary Egypt”, Orient Institut Studies, Vol. 4, 2016.

“Social movements, constitution debates and online deliberations in the post-Mubarak Egyptian public sphere”, Orient Institut Studies, Vol. 4, 2016. (co-authored)

“Terrorism and the diverse societal and political discourses – a philosophical discussion”, in Democracy Review, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies. No. 61., 2016. (in Arabic)

“Ramadan drama: A critical discussion of the socio-political media reality in the Egyptian series”, in The Egyptian Brief, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, 2 (11), June 2015, 5-8, 2015. (in Arabic)

‎„Limitations of the Social Media Euphoria in Communication Studies“, in Centre d’études ‎et de documentation économiques, juridiques et sociales (CEDEJ), Égypte/Monde arabe, Vol. 13, March 2015. http://ema.revues.org/3451

(mit Thomas Demmelhuber) „Autoritäre Regime, Neue Medien und das »Regimedilemma«: eine Fallstudie zu Ägypten“, (Authoritarian Regimes, New Media and the Regime dilemma: A Case Study on Egypt“, Zeitschrift für Internationale Beziehungen, Vol. 21, No. 1, June 2014, pp. 143-160. http://www.zib.nomos.de/fileadmin/zib/doc/Aufsatz_ZIB_14_01_Badr.pdf

„Terrorism and the diverse societal and political discourses - a philosophical discussion“, in Demoqratiya Journal, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies. No. 61, January 2016) (Arabisch)

„Ramadan drama: A critical discussion of the socio-political media reality in the Egyptian series“, in Al Malaf al Masry, Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies, Vol. 2, No. 11, June 2015, p. 5-8. (Arabisch)

Beiträge in Sammelbändern

“Transformation, Social Media and Hybrid Media Systems: Rethinking Counter-Issues’ Media Visibility in North Africa Before and After the Arab Uprisings”, In: IEMed (Hrsg.), IEMed Mediterranean Yearbook, 2019. Verfügbar unter: https://www.iemed.org/publicacions-en/historic-de-publicacions/anuari-de-la-mediterrania/sumaris/iemed-mediterranean-yearbook-2019?set_language=en

“Communication Studies in Transformation - Self-Reflections on an Evolving Discipline in Times of Change”, In: Kohstall, F.; et al. (Eds.) Academia in Transformation: Scholars Facing the Arab Uprisings. Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos, 2018. (co-authored)

“Social Movements, Social Media and the Political Culture: Constitutional Debates in a transformative Post-Revolutionary Egypt”, In: Richter, Carola; et al. (eds): Digital Media and the Politics of Transformation in the Arab World and Asia. Wiesbaden, Germany: Springer VS, 2018.

“Verlorener Glanz: Das Ägyptenbild in deutschen Printmedien” [Lost Glory: The Image of Egypt in German print media], In: Abboud und Stehli-Werbeck (Hrsg.): Die Wahrnehmung des Anderen in der arabischen Welt und in Deutschland [The perception of the other in the Arab world and Germany], Münster, Germany: Lit, 2017.

“Kommunikationswissenschaft in Ägypten: Transnationale Zirkulationen im Kontext von Kolonialismus und Globalisierung” [Communication Studies in Egypt: Transnational Circulation in the context of colonialism and globalization] In: Averbeck-Lietz, S. (Ed.): Kommunikations-wissenschaft im internationalen Vergleich. Transnationale Perspektiven. Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2017. (co-authored)

“Lessons learned from the German Public Broadcasting: Can it be implemented in Egypt?” Cairo, Egypt: Arab Forum for Alternatives Think Tank, 2017. (in Arabic)

(mit Carola Richter) „Kommunikationswissenschaft in Ägypten“, In: Averbeck-Lietz, Stefanie (Ed.): Kommunikationswissenschaft im internationalen Vergleich. Transnationale Perspektiven. Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2016.

Public Sphere, new media and political culture in post-revolutionary Egypt, In: Orient Institut Studies, Vol. 3, 2016, http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/orient-institut-studies

(mit Mehrez Ghali) Social movements, constitution debates and online deliberations in the post-Mubarak Egyptian public sphere , In: Orient Institut Studies, Vol. 3, 2016 http://www.perspectivia.net/publikationen/orient-institut-studies

„Images of the U.S. in Egyptian Media: A New Factor enters the Equation“, In: Shahin, Magda (Hg.), Egypt – U.S. Relations in a New Era, Cairo, Prince Alwaleed Center for American Studies and Research, American University in Cairo, 2014. http://www.aucegypt.edu/GAPP/casar/Pages/hanan%20badr.pdf

„Battleground Facebook: Contestation Mechanisms in the Social Media in the Framing of the Egypt’s Revolution 2011”. In: Berenger, Ralph (Hg.), Social Media Go to War: Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter. Spokane, Marquette Books, 2013.

„Parallelen und Kooperationsmöglichkeiten in der Scientific Community – Eine international-vergleichende Perspektive am Beispiel der Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft in Ägypten und Deutschland,“ Article in the DAAD-Report due to the 50th Anniversary in Cairo, DAAD-Regional Office in Cairo (May 2010)

„Der Mord an Marwa: ein medienkritischer Rückblick“. In INAMO (Informationsprojekt Naher und Mittlerer Osten), Vol. 15, Autumn 2009, pp.41-45. in the same time published on www.qantara.de, „Medienkritik im Fall Marwa El-Sherbini: Das Feindbild der Anderen“, also in English under the title „The Murder of Marwa: Desperately Seeking Intercultural Sensitivity“.

Buchrezensionen

Susan D. Moeller, Packaging Terrorism: Co-opting the News for Politics and Profit, Wiley & Sons, Blackwell Publishers, 2009.In Media, War and Conflict, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 2009.

Mohamed Ali Bassyouni, Der Facebook Staat, (The Facebook State) Cairo, Shorouk Publishers, 2009. In DAVO, Vol. 29, August 2009.

Numerous articles on politics, social and media issues published in Al-Doustour Al-Tahrir newspaper and Qantara.de.

Vorträge

(mit Carola Richter) “From counter-hegemony to power and back again: The Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood in transforming political and media structures”, Paper presented at the IAMCR 2015 conference in Montreal, Canada, 12.-16.07.2015

“Comparing two media systems in change in the East German media system 1989-1991 and the Egyptian media system 2011-2013”, A paper presented at the Al-Ahram Canadian Annual conference, Cairo, Egypt, 13.-16.03.2014

“Social Movements’ Online Discourses in the Social Media in a transforming Egypt” 18th Annual Conference of the Arab-US Association of Communication Educators, Tanger, Morocco 11-15.11.2013

Europe in the Middle East –The Middle East in Europe (EUME) International Summer Academy by the Forum Transregionale Studien (Berlin), AUC Aesthetics and Politics: Counter-Narratives, New Publics, and the Role of Dissent in the Arab World, Cairo, 16 – 27.09.2012

“Battleground Facebook”: Contestation Mechanisms in the Social Media in the Framing of the “Egyptian Revolution” in 2011, paper presented at the conference “Islam, Citizenship and the New Media in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Egypt”, Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo, 18.-20.12.2011.

“Who is the Terrorist? Framing of Terrorism in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, paper presented at the International Conference of the scholarly Network International and Intercultural Communication (NIIC) Beyond "Center" and "Periphery": (De)Westernization International and Intercultural Communication, Erfurt, 27-29.10.2011.

„Framing Terrorism in the Context of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – Assassination of Ahmed Yassin 2004 as a Case Study “, Presented at the Conference Global Media and the War on Terror, University of Westminster, London, 13.-14.09.2010.

Invited speaker on “Social Media and the Arab Spring: what remains? Encounters from Egypt” at Winter School "Social Media and Teaching – where do we go from here?" - at the Free University of Berlin, Berlin, 14.12.2014

Invited speaker on “Was it a Facebook Revolution?”, Invited Speaker at the Conference on Law and Economics in times of Revolutions, at the University of Hamburg, Hamburg, 6-9.11.2013

Invited speaker on “Islam and the Media: Reflections on the Image of Muslims in Western Media”, at the DAAD-Summer School “Muslims in the West”, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, August 2010 and August 2011.

Invited Speaker on „Internet as Potential for freedom in the Arab World?” at the Austrian Orient Society, Vienna, 10.-12.12.2009.

Invited Speaker on „The media representation of the terrorism in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict “, Friedrich-Ebert-Foundation, Bonn, 22.07.2009.