Nabil Echchaibi is Professor of media studies and Director of the Center for Media, Religion and Culture at the University of Colorado Boulder. His research and teaching focus on media, religion, and the politics and poetics. He is the author of Voicing Diasporas: Ethnic Radio in Paris and Berlin Between Culture and Renewal and the co-editor of three books. His scholarly work has appeared in various journals and in many book volumes. His opinion columns have been published in The Guardian, Forbes, Al-Jazeera, Salon, LatinoRebels, and Religion Dispatches and in publications in France and Morocco. He is currently writing his book, Unmosquing Islam, Media and Fugitive Muslimness, which calls into view the blackmail of a regime of transparency that governs the visibility of Muslims and reclaims the lived experience of Muslimness by insisting on its fugitivity and instability away from an imaginary of enmity and fixed ontology.
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Identity, religion, and the role of media in shaping and reflecting modern religious identities among Muslims in the Middle East and in diaspora, Muslim media production, both transnational satellite television and digital media as a discursive and performative stage where young individuals and institutions debate and contest what it means to be modern in the Muslim context, Decolonial theory and its implications for Media Studies
