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Prof. dr. Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo research group. His research focuses on the intersection between media, journalism and politics particularly in the MENA region and within its exilic and diasporic communities. He was previously a Junior Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO) (2022-2025) as well as a PhD fellow of the FWO (2016-2020).
He teaches in the BSc of Social Sciences and the MSc Communication Studies. He has a MSc in Communication Studies from the VUB (2015), and holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Computer Science from the Nagoya Institute of Technology in Japan (2013). He has been a visiting scholar at different institutions including Kadir Has University (Istanbul, Turkey), and Centre d'Etudes Maghrébines à Tunis (CEMAT–Tunis, Tunisia).
Education/Academic qualification
Media and Communication Studies, PhD, Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Award Date: 23 Sep 2021
Communication Studies, MSc., Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Award Date: 12 Sep 2015
Computer Science, BEng., Nagoya Institute of Technology
Award Date: 21 Mar 2013
Japanese language, Certificate, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Award Date: 31 Mar 2007
External positions
Member of Editorial Board, Journalism Practice
Feb 2025 → …
Member of the Ethics Committee, European Communication Research and Education Association
Jun 2023 → …
Member of the Advisory Board - Editorial Coordination, Journal of Global Diaspora and Media
Feb 2023 → …
Keywords
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- Middle East
- Syria
- Journalism
- Satire
- Emerging Media
- Voice
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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FWOTM1113: Satire across borders: production, content, and audiences of pan-Arab news satire
1/10/22 → 30/09/25
Project: Fundamental
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FWOTM807: New communication spaces in the Arab world: A multi-method study of emerging media organisations in Tunisia, Egypt and Syria
Smets, K., Badran, Y. & Loisen, J.
1/10/16 → 30/09/20
Project: Fundamental
Research output
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MENA Independent Media: Negotiating the Logics of Media Development Programs
Badran, Y., 9 Jun 2023, The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. Khalil, J. F., Khiabany, G., Guaaybess, T. & Yesil, B. (eds.). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons Inc., p. 191-204 12 p. (Global Handbooks in Media and Communication Research).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › Research › peer-review
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Tashbih: The Logic of Annihilation of the Other
Badran, Y., 8 Nov 2022, In: Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. 15, 4, p. 404-413 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Understanding Emerging Media: Voice, Agency, and Precarity in the Post‐2011 Arab Mediasphere
Badran, Y., 17 Dec 2021, In: Media and Communication. 9, 4, p. 264–274 11 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Anatomy of a precarious newsroom: precarity and agency in Syrian exiled journalism in Turkey
Badran, Y. & Smets, K., 23 Nov 2021, In: Media, Culture & Society. 43, 8, p. 1377-1394 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Media Capture and Journalism as Emotional Labor: How Do Media Professionals Manage Bureaucratic Violence in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq?
Faris, J., Maeseele, P., Badran, Y. & Smets, K., 18 Jul 2023, In: Journalism Studies. 24, 7, p. 876-895 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Prizes
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Best Paper by an Emerging Scholar Award
Badran, Yazan (Recipient), 1 Nov 2018
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Top Student Paper Award
Badran, Yazan (Recipient), 12 Jun 2016
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Excellence Award for Master thesis in Communication Studies
Badran, Yazan (Recipient), Dec 2015
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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FWO grant for a long stay abroad
Badran, Yazan (Recipient), Oct 2019
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Junior postdoctoral fellowship of the FWO
Badran, Yazan (Recipient), 1 Oct 2022
Prize: Fellowship awarded competitively
Activities
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DESIRE-ECHO Research Seminar with Marianna Patrona: Discourse as Social Practice: Discourse Analysis, Authoritarian Populism, and the News Media
Marianna Patrona (Visitor), Yazan Badran (Organiser), Maximilian Grönegräs (Organiser) & Benjamin De Cleen (Organiser)
5 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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Narrative power(lessness) of photography – visual research seminar
Benjamin De Cleen (Organiser), Ilija Tomanić Trivundža (Visitor), Yazan Badran (Participant), Silvia Almenara Niebla (Participant), Anna Luo (Participant), Adam Dinsmore (Participant) & Théo Aiolfi (Participant)
26 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
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2024 British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Annual Conference
Yazan Badran (Participant)
1 Jul 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in conference
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"Don't hate the media, be the media!": The appropriation of journalistic authority by the Vlaams Belang
Maximilian Grönegräs (Speaker), Benjamin De Cleen (Contributor) & Yazan Badran (Contributor)
2 Jul 2024Activity: Talk or presentation › Talk or presentation at a workshop/seminar
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DESIRE-ECHO Workshop with Marianna Patrona: Conversation Analysis as a window into the social organization of political interviewing
Marianna Patrona (Visitor), Maximilian Grönegräs (Organiser), Yazan Badran (Organiser), Benjamin De Cleen (Organiser), Hannah Oorts (Participant), Gijs Lambrechts (Participant) & Daniël Hans Marinus Jurg (Participant)
5 Feb 2024Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Participation in workshop, seminar
Thesis
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Virtual Public Sphere as Replacement for Dysfunctional Ones: The Case of Syrian Online Journals
Author: Badran, Y., Sep 2015Supervisor: Morganti, L. (Promotor) & Sinardet, D. (Jury)
Student thesis: Master's Thesis