Mahitab Ezz El Din
Senior lecturerMahitab Ezz El Din is an assistant professor, Department of Media and Journalism (MJ). Received her Ph.D. in Media and Communication studies from Örebro University, Sweden. Her research interest focuses on Journalism, media and democracy, media laws and regulations, media and society, media and migration/integration as well as media and conflict .
Her recent publications focus on news media racialization as well as diaspora media and her latest publication is on constructive forms for reporting migrants.
Currently leading a research project on the 2022 social media campaign against Swedish social services. Ezz El Din is a member in the research team studying Young citizens and quality of news.
She also received the research excellence grant for 2025 to study the Quran burning crisis: Sweden’s image in Arab news media.
Ezz El Din also has a journalistic experience in several media organisations, lately Ekot Radio Sweden.
My ongoing research projects
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Project: Public authority and media resilience: a qualitative interview study about the LVU campaign A qualitative interview study to investigate to investigate how was the LVU campaign handled and…
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Project: Young Citizens and the Quality of News. Construals, Emotions and Strategies In this project, we investigate how young adult citizens construe (perceive, comprehend and interpret) and…
Publications
Article in journal (Refereed)
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Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Reporting on the New Citizen : Towards Constructive Forms of Reporting on Immigrants. Arab Media & Society. 35. 47-68.
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Ezz El Din, M. (2020). Arab diaspora online media in Sweden : Arab migrants' identity discourses on the AlKompis Facebook page. First Monday. 25.
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Book (Refereed)
- Ezz El Din, M. (2017). Reporting Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism. Lambert Academic Publishing.
Doctoral thesis, monograph (Other academic)
- Ezz El Din, M. (2016). Beyond Orientalism and Occidentalism : Identity constructions in Arab and Western news media. Doctoral Thesis. Örebro, Örebro University. 315.
Chapter in book (Refereed)
- Ezz El Din, M. (2024). Science Journalism in the Global South : Opportunities and Challenges. Arab Women in Science Journalism. Cairo, The American University in Cairo;Kamal Adham Center for Television and Digital Journalism;UNESCO. 70-82.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2024). News media reporting on immigrants : Between stereotypes and constructive reporting. Mångfaldens möten : Interkulturalitet, utbildning och lärande. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 105-124.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Arab social media news in Sweden : Site of information or site of struggle?. Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication. London, Routledge.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2019). News media racialization of Muslims : The Case of Nerikes Allehanda’s Publishing of the Mohamed Caricature. Racialization, Racism, and Anti-Racism in the Nordic Countries. Palgrave Macmillan. 93-109.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2014). Egyptin media ennen ja jälkeen arabikevään. Maailman media. Sosiaalitieteiden laitoksen julkaisuja.
Conference paper (Refereed)
- Ezz El Din, M. (2024). Image of Sweden in Arab media platforms : a longitudinal study comparing the caricature crisis, Quran burning and the social services crisis.. Abstract book, October 26-28 2024, The Twenty-Eight Annual Conference of the Arab-US Association for Communication Educators (AUSACE). 27.
- Holt, K., Nykvist, A., Ezz El Din, M., Wahlberg, M., Dahlén, P. (2024). How Exciting Does it Have To Be? Young citizens and the interplay between emotional responses and quality assessments of news.. .
- Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2024). Twitter Campaign Against the Swedish Social Services : Between Disinformation and Dystopia. Presented at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference, Las Vegas, USA, April 13-16, 2024.
- Ezz El Din, M., Önnerfors, A., Ricknell, E. (2023). Twitter campaign against the Swedish social services : Between activism and emotional mobilization. Book of abstracts: Media and Emotional Mobilization.
- Ezz El Din, M., El Gody, A. (2023). Journalism of Clicks and Shares.. .
- El Gody, A., Tahat, K., Masoori, A., Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Virtual Connectivity and Cultural Affiliation : The Use of Southeast Asian Diaspora Social Media in the UAE. Presented to the 106th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Washington, D.C..
- Ezz El Din, M. (2022). Arab Diaspora Social Media platforms in Sweden : Amidst Utopia and Dystopia. Presented at the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference 2022, April 23-26, Las Vegas USA.
- Holt, K., Ezz El Din, M., Wahlberg, M., Nykvist, A., De La Brosse, R. (2022). Young citizens and the Quality of news. Attention, emotional reactions and quality assessments.. Presented to the Broadcast Education Association (BEA) Conference 2022, Las Vegas, USA, April 23-26. 2nd prize winner in the BEA2022 Interest Division’s Top Paper Competition).
- Ezz El Din, M. (2022). Reporting About the New Citizen : Alternative Forms of Media Coverage on Migrants. Presented at The 26th Conference of Arab-US Association for Communication Educators 12–14 October 2022, Örebro University, Sweden.
- Holt, K., Nykvist, A., Ezz El Din, M., Wahlberg, M., De La Brosse, R., et al. (2022). Young Citizens and the Quality of new : Measuring attention and emotional reactions in relation to quality assessments. Presented at the 72nd Annual ICA Conference "One World, One Network‽", Paris, 26-30 May, 2022.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2011). Intercultural Conflicts : The ‘Other’ as presented in News. International Communication Association Conference (ICA), Boston, Massachusetts, 26-30 May, 2011.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2010). News of the Other. The Global Media and the War on Terror Conference, the University of Westminster, UK (13-14 September 2010).
- Ezz El Din, M. (2004). Impact of Transnational Television Networks on Local News Conception. The Arab-US Conference for Communication Educators (AUSACE), Cairo, Nov. 2004.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2002). The challenges facing Wire Services in the New World Information and Communication Order (NWICO). .
- Ezz El Din, M. (1999). Why have a Press Syndicate?. The Arab-US Conference for Communication Educators (AUSACE), Beirut, Oct. 1999.
- Ezz El Din, M. (1998). Egyptian Press Freedom and the Challenges of the 21 Century. Arab-US Conference for Communication Educators (AUSACE), Cairo Sept. 1998.
Conference paper (Other academic)
- Ezz El Din, M., Ricknell, E., Önnerfors, A. (2023). LVU, koranbränningar och påverkan : hur kan medierna hanteradesinformation om Sverige?. #SweFactCheck 2023 ”Sverigebilden: från underbarn till undergång." 15-17 November 2023, Kalmar, Sverige.
- Nykvist, A., Wahlberg, M., Holt, K., Dahlén, P., Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Measuring young citizens appreciation of news - between attention, emotional reactions and pertinent quality assessments. Presented at the NordMedia Conference 2023, Bergen, Norway, August 16-18, 2023.
- Ezz El Din, M. (2022). COVID-19 Debates in Arab Diaspora Online Platforms in Sweden. Presented at the Media Breakdown and Recovery International Symposium at Lund university, Sweden March 16th 2022..
- Ezz El Din, M. (2013). News media construction of the Other. Ida Blom Conference, Bergen, Norway.
Report (Other academic)
- Holt, K., Nykvist, A., Ezz El Din, M., Wahlberg, M., Dahlén, P. (2023). Young citizens and the quality of news : Construals, Emotions and Strategies. Gothenburg, Lindholmen Science Park. 29.
Other (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))
- Holtorf, C., Lindskog, D., Ezz El Din, M. (2022). علم اﻵﺛﺎر اليوم. Archaeopress. 14.