Wednesday, April 21, 2010

Arab Popular Culture and the Media

Conference: "Arab Popular Culture and the Media"
April 21–23, 2010
Beirut campus

Culture encompasses every aspect of our lives and is relevant to each of our academic disciplines. The papers presented will discuss, among other things, culture and medicine, religion, cinema, music, literature, gender, architecture, emigration, the internet, as well as romance.
Organizer: LAU's Institute for Media Training and Research (TIMTAR), & the Department of Communication Arts

The session that I will be covering live is:
1:00 SESSION 5B —LRC 21
Moderator: MAHMOUD TARABAY
a) Arab Hip Hop in an International Frame
Caroline Rooney. THE UNIVERSITY OF KENT
b) Popular Music and Student Identity
Wael Khatib. YARMOUK UNIVERSITY
c) Palestinian Hip Hop: Youth, Identity and Nation
Sunaina Maira & Magid Shihade. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-DAVIS, LAHORE UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCES


FOLLOW MY LIVE COVERAGE AT: http://live.lausocial.com

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