Afra Arslan Abdel Halim

Afra Arslan Abdel Halim received her BA in Integrated Marketing Communication and Middle East Politics from the American University in Cairo. She worked for various media institutions and NGOs in Istanbul and London. Abdel Halim completed her MA in Fatih Sultan Mehmet Waqf University’s Alliance of Civilizations Institute in 2014 with a thesis titled “Online Islamic Activism: Social Media use among Female University Students in Post-Gezi Istanbul”. Among her main fields of interest are Middle East politics, global media and identity representation. She worked as a research assistant at Media and Communications Directorate, SETA Istanbul.