William Freivogel 
SIU Foundation 
The Global Media Research Center sponsored a presentation by Joe Khalil (CMCMA-SIUC) entitled "Communicating Conflict: Lebanese Youth and the Quest for Peace" on Thursday, March 8th, 2007 at 4:30pm in Communications 1032.
This presentation explores how young people react to conflict by producing self-expressive media that challenges conventional norms and perceptions, both nationally and trans-nationally. Using the July 2006 conflict between Hezbollah and Israel as a case study, this presentation relies on audio-visual artifacts and field research to explore how young Lebanese communicated their experiences of war and peace during a thirty three day siege. The presentation integrates three broad issues in an analytical framework: (1) the relations between alternative media and social movements (2) the study of conflict and communication (3) the role of youth-generated media is young peoplesí self-expression.
Joe F. Khalil is a Ph.D. student at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in Carbondale. He has more than twelve years of professional television experience as director, executive producer and consultant with CNBC Arabiya, MBC, MTV and Orbit. As media professional, he has worked in Italy, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon. For seven years, he was an instructor at the Lebanese American University where his teaching and research focused on transnational broadcasting, programming and production. His articles have appeared in Transnational Broadcasting Studies, Middle East Broadcasters Journal, and in Global Media Journal. His dissertation is about youth-generated media and this presentation is based on a pre-dissertation fieldwork conducted in Lebanon.
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