Mahmoud Eid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Eid previously taught in the University of Regina�s School of Journalism in Regina, Saskatchewan, and in Carleton University�s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Ontario. His professional expertise lies in quantitative and qualitative research regarding the effects of mass media and social development. His teaching experience, research interests, and publications concentrate on international communication, media ethics, communication research methods, terrorism, crisis management and conflict resolution, modernity, and the political economy of communication.  

Dr. Eid is the editor of the Global Media Journal -- Canadian Edition. He is the author of Interweavement: International Media Ethics and Rational Decision-Making (2008), series editor of Communication Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches (2007) and Introduction to Communication and Media Studies (2008), editor of Cybercultures (2005), and co-editor of The Right to Communicate: Historical Hopes, Global Debates and Future Premises (2009) and Introduction to Media Studies: A Reader (2007). He serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals, and as an organizing committee member for various international conferences. Dr. Eid has presented numerous papers at global conferences and has contributed chapters to several books published by Hampton Press, Pearson, Peter Lang, Oxford University Press, and Kendall/Hunt, among others. In addition, he has published articles in numerous journals including The Journal of International Communication, The European Journal of Communication Research, International Journal of the Humanities, First Monday, INFORMATION, Journal of Integrated Marketing Communications, Corporate Ownership and Control, and Journalism Ethics for the Global Citizen.

Dr. Eid has received his Ph.D. (2004) in Communication from Carleton University's School of Journalism and Communication. His M.A. (1997) is in International Communication; and B.A. (1991) is in Public Relations and Advertising -- both from Cairo University�s Faculty of Mass Communication. 

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Last updated: November 07, 2009