Mahmoud Eid

Mahmoud Eid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Canada. Dr. Eid is the author of Interweavement: International Media Ethics and Rational Decision- Making (2008), co-author of Mission Invisible: Race, Religion, and News at the Dawn of the 9/11 Era (2014), editor of Research Methods in Communication (2011), and co-editor of Basics in Communication and Media Studies (2012) and The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates, and Future Premises (2009). Dr. Eid is the Editor of the Global Media Journal – Canadian Edition, serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals and as an organizing committee member for various international conferences, contributed several book chapters and journal articles, and presented numerous papers at global conferences. He has led and collaborated in projects for Public Safety Canada, Citizenship and Immigration Canada, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and various other Canadian and international institutions. His research interests focus on international communication and media studies, communication and media ethics and effects, terrorism, crisis management, conflict resolution, Islam, Arab culture, Middle East politics, media representations and ethnic studies, research methods, and the political economy of communication.

Publications

Ethics, Risk, and Media Intervention: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela
Ethics, Risk, and Media Intervention: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela
Mahmoud Eid, Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. © 2017. 23 pages.
Breast cancer incidence and mortality rates are of concern among Latin American women, mainly due to the growing prevalence of this disease and the lack of compliance to proper...
Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela
Risk, Activism, and Empowerment: Women's Breast Cancer in Venezuela
Mahmoud Eid, Isaac Nahon-Serfaty. © 2017. 24 pages.
The prevalence of breast cancer in Venezuela is particularly alarming, which is attributed to healthcare inequalities, low health literacy, and lagging compliance with prevention...
Understanding Terrorism
Understanding Terrorism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2017. 18 pages.
People all over the globe have become very familiar with the term terrorism due to its common and worldwide occurrence. Terrorism has been committed by states, governments...
Questioning Media Responsibility during Terrorism
Questioning Media Responsibility during Terrorism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2017. 14 pages.
The media's dual role during times of terrorism can be as useful as the most effective security and political counterterrorism measures and can be as harmful as exacerbating...
Ethics, Decision-Making, and Risk Communication in the Era of Terroredia: The Case of ISIL
Ethics, Decision-Making, and Risk Communication in the Era of Terroredia: The Case of ISIL
Mahmoud Eid. © 2017. 16 pages.
Terrorism today is one of the most frequent global severe stress situations. The advanced and widespread new media and information technologies as well as modern tactics of...
Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The Age of Terroredia
Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The Age of Terroredia
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 347 pages.
Terroredia is a newly coined term by the editor, Dr. Mahmoud Eid, to explain the phenomenal, yet under-researched relationship between terrorists and media professionals in which...
Religious Sphere in Canada: Public Manifestations and Media Representations
Religious Sphere in Canada: Public Manifestations and Media Representations
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 18 pages.
Canadian demographic trends indicate that the number of religious adherents from various faith groups is on the rise. Despite successful integration of some religions into...
Terroredia: Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves
Terroredia: Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 12 pages.
Terrorism and the media have a unique relationship that has been long evident in history and academia. Due to modern advancements in communication and information technologies...
Understanding Terrorism
Understanding Terrorism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 18 pages.
People all over the globe have become very familiar with the term terrorism due to its common and worldwide occurrence. Terrorism has been committed by states, governments...
New Terrorism and Media
New Terrorism and Media
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 12 pages.
New terrorism has been recently considered a new type of terrorism. The terrorism characteristics that have instigated the introduction of the term stem from the modern...
Questioning Media Responsibility during Terrorism
Questioning Media Responsibility during Terrorism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2014. 14 pages.
The media's dual role during times of terrorism can be as useful as the most effective security and political counterterrorism measures and can be as harmful as exacerbating...
Cyber-Terrorism and Ethical Journalism: A Need for Rationalism
Cyber-Terrorism and Ethical Journalism: A Need for Rationalism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2012. 21 pages.
Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern...
Systems of Ethical Reasoning and Media Communications
Systems of Ethical Reasoning and Media Communications
Mahmoud Eid. © 2012. 7 pages.
A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States: Social Networks for Social Change in the Obama Era
A Triad of Crisis Communication in the United States: Social Networks for Social Change in the Obama Era
Mahmoud Eid, Jenna Bresolin Slade. © 2012. 21 pages.
The United States experienced a core-shaking tumble from their pedestal of superpower at the beginning of the 21st century, facing three intertwined crises which revealed a need...
Cyber-Terrorism and Ethical Journalism: A Need for Rationalism
Cyber-Terrorism and Ethical Journalism: A Need for Rationalism
Mahmoud Eid. © 2010. 19 pages.
Terrorism has been a constant threat in traditional and contemporary societies. Recently, it has been converged with new media technology and cyberspace, resulting in the modern...