SEVDA ALANKUŞ

Prof. Sevda Alankuş graduated from Faculty of Political Science, Ankara University. She received her MA degree and Ph.D degree in Political Science and Public Administration respectively, from the same university. She was awarded "Peace Research Fellowship" and did her post-doctoral research on "Cultural/Ethnic Identities" at the Department of Social Policy and Sociology, University of Leeds in United Kingdom in 1988-1989. She have taught at different universities of Turkey and following her teaching experience in Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) of Faculty of Communication and Media Studies since 1999, as the dean of the Faculty, she initiated to establishment of  "Center for Peace and Communication Research" for promoting peace journalism in Cyprus in 2008. Since 2014, she is working as the dean of the Faculty of Communication of Kadir Has University.


Currently, Prof. Alankuş, as training-advisor of  the Independent Communication Network (ICN) (www.bianet.org) coordinates the "from the School to the Newsroom" trainings of ICN's in peace journalism that are given to the senior students of faculty of communications from all over Turkey. Prof. Alankuş is the editor of Handbook for Journalists and Right-Based Journalism serials, author of Peace Journalism Handbook and has articles on representations of women in different genres of media; role of alternative and local media in democratization of Turkey's media environment; peace journalism vs war/mainstream media journalism practices of Turkish Cypriot and Turkish media.  

MİRİAM COOKE

Prof. Miriam cooke is Braxton Craven Distinguished Professor of Arab Cultures at Duke University. She has been a visiting professor in Tunisia, Romania, Indonesia, Qatar and Istanbul. She serves on several national and international advisory boards, including academic journals and institutions. She is editor of the Journal for Middle East Women's Studies.

Her writings have focused on the intersection of gender and war in modern Arabic literature and on Arab women writers' constructions of Islamic feminism. Prof. Cooke has written about Arab cultural studies with a concentration on Syria, the Arab Gulf and the networked connections among Arabs and Muslims around the world. 

She is the author of several monographs that include Women and the War Story (1997); Women Claim Islam (2001); Dissident Syria: Making Oppositional Arts Official (2007), Nazira Zeineddine: A Pioneer of Islamic Feminism (2010) and Tribal Modern: Branding New Nations in the Arab Gulf (2014). Prof. Cooke has also published a novel, Hayati, My Life (2000). Several books and articles have been translated into Arabic, Chinese, Dutch and German.