Diana Kasem
Diana Kasem is a Ph.D. student and an instructor in Communication at UMass Amherst, where she has taught courses in Film Studies and Communication. She holds two bachelor degrees in English Literature and Theater Studies and has lectured at the Higher Institute of Theater in Damascus. Upon receiving a scholarship from Jusoor, she earned a master's degree in Modern Culture and Media from Brown University and in Art History from the Belarusian State Academy of Arts. Her theses include Searching for Hamlet Again and Theatre and Screen Art of the Late 20th and the Early 21st Century. She is a published author, whose story for children, The Apple Girl, received an award from the Syrian Ministry of Culture in 2009. One of her recent articles is Arab SF Film and TV in the Twentieth Century. An experimental filmmaker, Diana has directed multiple projects shown at international film festivals, such as Everyday Arias (UK, 2017), Tiba Short Film Festival (Egypt, 2013), and Al-Ard Doc Film Festival (Italy, 2013). In 2015, she founded 7GATES, a platform for supporting art and culture.
Film, media, culture, and theater studies.
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Kasem, D. (2021). Arab SF Film and TV in the Twentieth Century. MOSF Journal of Science Fiction, 4(2), 50–64.
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QAB: What Fear Taught Me: Resilient communication using art in applied contexts. (2000). Retrieved February 25, 2021, from a film Trailer: Normal Yesterday
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Recent Conference participations: The Sea is all Around, New England Graduate Media Symposium. Boston, Massachusetts, USA, (presenter 2017, selection committee member 2018-2019).
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Resilient Communication: Comm Diversity: Communication for Collective Healing, 2021, Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Amercas, and Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 2021
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Performance panel: National Communication Association, Baltimore, 2019
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Coming soon: Resilient Communication in Critical Media Literacy Conference of the Amercas and Northeast Popular Culture Association, October 2021
