In December 2024, the Syrian regime suddenly fell in the face of the advance of Islamist forces and its Turkish allies. While the future of the country is still uncertain, the 54-year rule of the Assa...
Enrico De Angelis
Enrico De Angelis holds a PhD in Media Studies. He mainly works on new media and public sphere in Syria and Egypt, but also on grassroots media, political communication, and journalism in the MENA region. He did a post-doc at Cedej, Cairo, between 2012 and 2014 analysing the networked public sphere in Egypt. He is one of the co-founders of the Syrian media platform UntoldStories and co-founder of the Italian version of Orient XXI.
He currently works as a media researcher consultant for organizations such as International Media Support, Free Press Unlimited, UNESCO, Hivos, Deutsche Welle, and Canal France International. He has held teaching positions at the American University of Cairo, Roberto Ruffilli Faculty and the Political Science Faculty at University of Bologna. He published a monograph on media and conflict and several articles on media in the MENA region. He is particularly interested in critical approaches to internet studies and the networked public sphere in the Arab world. He has lived in Berlin since October 2016.
Events IJF 2025
I social media stanno cambiando la guerra. Il ciclo di violenza seguito al 7 ottobre ha mostrato come il processo di raccolta, verifica e distribuzione delle informazioni sia entrato in una nuova fase...
A little over ten years ago, the battle for control of Aleppo marked a turning point in the war in Syria: the reconquest of the city by the government of Bashar al Assad closed the phase of hope for t...
The Syrian uprising of 2011 (and the subsequent conflict) marked a fundamental breaking point in the informational environment of the country. The collapse of the Syrian regime’s authority over larg...
