NEW MEDIA STUDIES WITH AFEEF NESSOULI
Wed. Apr 29 @ 8:00PM
This course will cover how dehumanization is employed in media to allow governments to erase people and extract their resources. Real people, who are suffering under occupation or fascism, are reduced to tropes for a reason. From Iraq to queer people to Columbia University students, manufacturing consent is often a mix of financial and ideological motivations. The only antidote to this is to respect the diversity of local and Indigenous storytellers and amplify their various perspectives.
Afeef Nessouli عفيف نصّولي is a journalist and the host of With Afeef Nessouli (WAN), a magazine show about global resistance and personal agency debuting in 2026. WAN is inspired by his experiences as a journalist and humanitarian aid worker. From March to June 2025, he spent 9 weeks in Gaza with Glia International, and as a reporter with The Intercept. He has recently been awarded a Pulitzer grant from the Pulitzer Center. He formerly produced The Wall Street Journal's daily news podcast The Journal with Spotify, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, an assortment of CNN shows, and was a legal advisor to the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture. His reporting focuses on systems and the economy, the Middle East and neo-imperialism, and resistance around the world. Afeef lived through the 2006 Lebanon war and went to prison in Beirut for covering Palestine in 2011.
