Abeer al-Najjar is associate professor of mass communication at the American University of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates. She has a PhD in media and mass communications from the University of Edinburgh and spent 10 years as a journalist in the Middle East.
Refugee children usually appear in the news media because they’ve died in a shocking accident, or they’re seen as a threat to the social order or the security of a nation where they’ve fled. In “The Displaced,” … Read more
