Dina Matar is Professor of Political Communication and Arab Media and Chair of the Department of Media Studies at SOAS. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics and communication, media and conflict, and memory studies in the Middle East. She is the author of What it Means to be Palestinian: Stories of Palestinian Peoplehood (2010), co-author of The Hizbullah Phenomenon: Politics and Communication (2012), and co-editor of several volumes including Gaza as Metaphor (2016) and Archiving Gaza in the Present (2025). She is co-founder of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and co-editor of the SOAS Palestine Studies series.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently claimed in a video posted on his Facebook page that the Palestinian demand to dismantle illegal Israeli settlements in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) constitutes an act of “ethnic cleansing” against Israeli Jewish settlers.
