Dr Gholam Khiabany

Gholam studies the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices.

Staff details

Position

Reader in Media and Communications

School

Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

Email

Contact Gholam Khiabany

Gholam Khiabany's academic career has focused on the relationship between citizenship, political activism and media and cultural practices, including alternative media.

His research interests centre on the media and social change and the relationship between communication, development and democracy with particular reference to the Middle East. Gholam Khiabany is also interested in the debate over multiculturalism, culturalisation of terror, the rise of the security state, and anti-Muslim racism.

He is the author of Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity (Routledge, 2010), co-author of Blogistan with Annabelle Sreberny (I.B.Tauris, 2010), co-editor of Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits (Goldsmiths, 2017), and After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech (Zed, 2017)

He is an editor of the Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, and is a member of council of management of the Institute of Race Relations.

Areas of supervision:
Mediated culture in the Middle East; media representation of race, migration and refugees; political activism and alternative/new media; media and religion; political economy of media.

Publications and research outputs

Book

Davis, Aeron; Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des (D. J.) and Khiabany, Gholam. 2020. Media, Democracy and Social Change: Re-imagining Political Communications. London: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9781526456960
Sreberny, Annabelle and Khiabany, Gholam. 2010. Blogistan: The Internet and Politics in Iran. London: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781845116064
Khiabany, Gholam. 2009. Iranian Media: The Paradox of Modernity. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. ISBN 978-0-415-96289-6

Edited Book

Khalil, Joe F.; Khiabany, Gholam; Guaaybess, Tourya and Yesil, Bilge, eds. 2023. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley-Blackwell. ISBN 9781119637066
Titley, Gavan; Freedman, Des (D. J.); Khiabany, Gholam and Mondon, Aurelien, eds. 2017. After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech. London: Zed Books. ISBN 978-1-78360-938-3 pb
Abraham-Hamanoiel, Alejandro; Freedman, Des (D. J.); Khiabany, Gholam; Nash, Kate and Petley, Julian, eds. 2017. Liberalism in Neoliberal Times: Dimensions, Contradictions, Limits. London: Goldsmiths Press. ISBN 978-1-906897-40-6

Book Section

Khiabany, Gholam. 2025. Complexity of political communication in Iran. In: Dina Matar, ed. Reframing Political Communication and Media Practices in the Middle East and North Africa. London: Bloomsbury Academic (I.B. Tauris), pp. 19-38. ISBN 9780755653812
Sreberny, Annabelle and Khiabany, Gholam. 2023. Where is Iranian politics? Between state and nation, inside and outside the polity. In: Shahram Akbarzadeh, ed. Handbook of Middle East Politics. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 126-143. ISBN 9781802205626
Khiabany, Gholam; Khalil, Joe F.; Guaaybess, Tourya and Yesil, Bilge. 2023. Media and Culture in the Middle East: An Introduction. In: Joe F. Khalil; Gholam Khiabany; Tourya Guaaybess and Bilge Yesil, eds. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley/Blackwell, pp. 1-12. ISBN 9781119637066

Khiabany, Gholam. 2023. Intellectuals, Modernities, and the Emerging Public Sphere. In: Joe F. Khalil; Gholam Khiabany; Tourya Guaaybess and Bilge Yesil, eds. The Handbook of Media and Culture in the Middle East. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 55-63. ISBN 9781119637066
Khiabany, Gholam. 2022. The Future and the 鈥楶oetry of the Past鈥�. In: Joanna Zylinska, ed. The Future of Media. London: Goldsmiths Press, pp. 7-22. ISBN 9781913380144
Khiabany, Gholam. 2017. The Visible Hand of the State. In: Gavan Titley; Des (D. J.) Freedman; Gholam Khiabany and Aurelien Mondon, eds. After Charlie Hebdo: Terror, Racism and Free Speech. London: Zed Books, pp. 114-128. ISBN 978-1-78360-938-3 pb
Khiabany, Gholam. 2016. The Middle East. In: Benjamin Birkinbine; Gomez Rodrigi and Janet Wasko, eds. Global Media Giants. New York: Routledge. ISBN 9781138927711
Khiabany, Gholam. 2015. The Importance of 鈥楽ocial鈥� in Social Media: The Lessons from Iran. In: Axel Bruns; Gunn Enli; Eli Skogerb酶; Anders Olof Larsson and Christian Christensen, eds. The Routledge Companion to Social Media and Politics. New York: Routledge, pp. 223-234. ISBN 9781138860766
Khiabany, Gholam. 2014. Uneven and Combined Independence of Social Media in the Middle East: Technology, Symbolic Production and Unproductive Labor. In: James Bennett and Niki Strange, eds. Media Independence Working with Freedom or Working for Free? New York: Routledge, pp. 261-280. ISBN 9781138023482
Khiabany, Gholam and Wiillamson, Milly. 2012. Terror, Culture and Anti-Muslim Racism. In: Daya Kishan Thussu and Des (D. J.) Freedman, eds. Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives. London: SAGE, pp. 134-150. ISBN 978-1446201589
Khiabany, Gholam and Williamson, Milly. 2012. Terror, culture and anti-Muslim racism. In: Des (D. J.) Freedman and Daya Kishan Thussu, eds. Media and Terrorism: Global Perspectives. London: Sage, pp. 134-150. ISBN 9781446201589
Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2011. Muslim women and veiled threats: From 'civilizing mission' to 'clash of civilisations'. In: J. Petley and R Richardson, eds. Pointing the finger: Islam and Muslims in the British media. London: One World Publications. ISBN 9781851688128
Khiabany, Gholam. 2011. Muslim Women and Veiled Threats: From 鈥楥ivilizing Mission鈥� to 鈥楥lash of Civilization. In: Julian Petley and Robin Richardson, eds. Pointing the Finger: Islam and Muslims in the British Media. London: Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1851688128
Khiabany, Gholam. 2011. Modernity and the Many Faces of 鈥楧igital Divides鈥�: Digital Dynamics in Iran. In: Peter Golding and Graham Murdock, eds. Digital Dynamics: Engagements and Connections. New York: Hampton Press. ISBN 978-1572739314
Khiabany, Gholam. 2010. Whither Eurocentrism? Media, Culture and Nativism in our Time. In: Georgette Wang, ed. De-Westernizing Communication Research: Altering Questions and Changing Frameworks. 25 London and New York: Routledge, pp. 207-221. ISBN 978-0-415-57545-4
Khiabany, Gholam. 2007. The Politics of Broadcasting in Iran: Continuity and Change, Expansion and Control. In: David Ward, ed. Television and Public Policy: Change and Continuity in an Era of Global Liberalization. London: Routledge, pp. 283-304. ISBN 978-0805856453
Khiabany, Gholam. 2007. The Iranian Press, State and Civil Society. In: Mehdi Semati, ed. Media, Culture and Society in Iran: Living with Globalization and the Islamic State. London & NY: Routledge, pp. 17-36. ISBN 978-0415772167

Article

Khiabany, Gholam and Williamson, Milly. 2025. From 鈥楽top the Boats鈥� to 鈥楽mash the Gangs鈥�: Migration and Securitisation in Contemporary Capitalism. Race & Class, ISSN 0306-3968
Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2025. The British State, Citizenship Rights and Gendered Folk Devils: The Case of Shamima Begum. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(2), pp. 345-360. ISSN 1367-5494
Fenton, Natalie; Freedman, Des (D. J.); Khiabany, Gholam and Williamson, Milly. 2023. Critiquing the Vocabularies of the Marketized University. Media Theory, 7(1), pp. 277-298. ISSN 2557-826X

Conference or Workshop Item

Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2019. 'State Policy and the Articulation of Racism'. In: IAMCR 2019. Madrid, Spain 7 - 11 July 2019.
Williamson, Milly and Khiabany, Gholam. 2013. 'Free Speech and the Market State: Race, Media and Culture'. In: IAMCR 2013. Dublin, Ireland 25 - 29 June 2013.
Khiabany, Gholam and Williamson, Milly. 2011. 'Security Culture and Racism'. In: IAMCR 2011. Istanbul, Turkey 13 - 17 July 2011.

樱桃视频