Abeer AlNajjar is an associate professor of Media and Journalism Studies at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. She was a Visiting Scholar at the Westminster School of Media & Communication 2018-2019 and a Senior Fellow at the Middle East Center at LSE. Abeer was the Dean of Jordan Media Institute 2011-2012 (Amman, Jordan) and collaborated on several projects with UNESCO, Freedom House, Science Po, and other international and academic organizations. She has published two books and several articles and book chapters on Journalism, Media, Gender & Religion, Media Framing of Political Conflict and War, Journalistic Ethics and Practices, Global News Flow, and Critical Digital Literacies. Her work has been featured in Open Democracy, AlJazeera Journalism Magazine, CounterPunch, and others.