• Director of Journalism Postgraduate Studies, City St George's, University of London

Dr Zahera Harb is Director of Journalism Postgraduate Studies at City St George's, University of London. She has published widely on Journalism and Politics in the Arab countries. Her book publications include a forthcoming book on Cultures of Journalism in Egypt and Lebanon: Values, Ethics and Hate Speech (Palgrave) and an edited collection titled Reporting the Middle East: The Practice of News in the 21st Century (IB Tauris 2017). She is co-editor of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and former associate editor of Journalism Practice. She is currently chair of Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ) board of directors, and trustee of Marie Colvin Journalists' Network. She also sits on the board of the UK Press Recognition Panel (PRP). Zahera previously served as member to the UK broadcast regulator Ofcom content board, board member-trustee of the Ethical Journalism Network and board member-trustee of Dart Centre Europe for Journalism and Trauma. Before moving to the UK, Zahera worked, for over a decade, as a broadcast Journalist in her native country Lebanon, for local and International news organisations.

• –present Director of Journalism Postgraduate Studies, City St George's, University of London

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