Christa Salamandra is a Professor of Anthropology at Lehman College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, who specializes in Arabic language fictional media. She received a Ph.D. from the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, where she also served as Postdoctoral Research Associate. She served as a Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology, The School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Professor at Lebanese American University in Beirut; a Visiting Fellow at the New Islamic Public Sphere Programme, University of Copenhagen, a visiting Scholar at The Center for Middle East Studies, Lund University; and a Fulbright Scholar and Visiting Scholar at the Department of Mass Communication, American University of Sharjah. She is the author of A New Old Damascus: Authenticity and Distinction in Urban Syria (Indiana University Press 2014), and co-editor (with Leif Stenberg) of Syria from Reform to Revolt, Vol 2 (Syracuse University Press 2015). A 2009 American Council of Learned Societies/SSRC/NEH International and Area Studies Fellowship supported her current book project on the Syrian TV drama industry in the satellite era. She serves on the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, Arab Media and Society, Middle East Critique, and Cyberorient.
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Reading, Pages Bookstore, Istanbul June 2016
Christa Salamandra with Syrian actor Ahmad al-Ahmad on location of the drama serial Finjan al-Dam
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