Dina Matar is professor Political Communication and Arab media at SOAS. She also served as chair of the Centre for Palestine Studies from 2018 to 2024. She has published research on Palestine, including a monograph, "What it means to be Palestinian" (2010); and co-edited collections, "Narrating Conflict in the Middle East" (2013); "Gaza as Metaphor" (2016) and "Producing Palestine: The Creative Production of Palestine through Contemporary Media" (October 2024).