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Senior Fellow
Jennings Randolph Fellowship Program

In Residence: October 2003 - July 2004

Project Focus

Terror on the Internet: The New Arena, the New Challenges

Areas of Specialization

Middle East • Terrorism • Media and Conflict • Information and Communication Technologies

Foreign Languages: Hebrew, French, German

Contact: Office of Congressional and Public Affairs

Background

Gabriel Weimann is professor of communication at Haifa University, where he has taught since 1984. A prolific analyst of terrorism and the mass media, his publications include five books, among them Communicating Unreality: Mass Media and Reconstruction of Realities, The Theater of Terror: The Mass Media and International Terrorism, and Hate on Trial: The Zundel Case, the Media and Public Opinion in Canada. He has also written more than 100 book chapters and articles, including papers in the American Sociological Review, Sociological Inquiry, Social Psychology Quarterly, Journal of Communication, Social Networks, International Journal of Intercultural Relations, and European Journal of Communication. He has held visiting positions at universities around the world, including the National University of Singapore, the University of Pennsylvania, Universitaet Mainz (Germany), Stanford University, and Carleton University in Ottawa. Weimann has received grants from the Ben Gurion Foundation, the Fulbright Foundation, the Canadian-Israel Exchange, the Canadian government, the U.S. Education Foundation, the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung, the Berman Center at Lehigh University, the German National Research Foundation, the Israel Democracy Institute, and the Research Authority at the University of Haifa. He received a Sasakawa Fellowship Grant for the Salzburg Seminar and the Wally Langschmidt Award for Communication Research (South Africa). He holds a Ph.D. in communications from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

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