Bio:
Jad Melki, Ph.D., the research director of ICMPA and a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy, is a visiting professor at Johns Hopkins University and Towson University, teaching courses in research methods, media and society, media literacy, and media, war and terrorism. Dr. Melki has been a broadcast and online journalist for over 10 years working with American and Arabic media. He was part of the Webby award and Press Club award winning Hot Zone team (Yahoo! News), covering the Hezbollah-Israel war of summer 2006. Dr. Melki was a project manager at the Salzburg Global Seminar and a faculty researcher at the College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He will be joining the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department as a faculty member at the American University of Beirut in 2009. (resume) |