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Joel Wiklund Abdelmoez Ahmed

About me

I am an administrator at the Department of Special Education. In this role, I work with the Master's Programme in Special Education with a Focus on Applied Behavior Analysis and Autism. Before coming to this department, I worked at the Department of Asian, Middle Eastern and Turkish Studies, as Director of Studies, adjunct, and amanuensis.

Education:

  • MPhil in Multidisciplinary Gender Studies (2019, University of Cambridge)
  • MA in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (2019, Stockholm University)
  • BA in Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (2015, Stockholm University)

Publications

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  • Is it a revolution or a coup? Scandinavian media representations of the ousting of Egyptian President Mohamed Morsy

    2017. Joel Wiklund Abdelmoez. Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies 6 (2), 109-131

    Article

    In the summer of 2013, millions of Egyptians returned to Tahrir square in Cairo to demand the resignation of the country’s first democratically elected president. This article examines the two key terms mainly used to describe the ousting of President Mohamed Morsy, ‘coup’ and ‘revolution’, and how these terms can be understood as arguments for two different interpretations of the event. Particular focus is given to the press corps of Denmark, Norway and Sweden, which reveals a discrepancy between the interpretation of Scandinavian online press and the Egyptian majority, meaning that the Scandinavian press corps is telling a story that is not recognized by those it is about. While many media producers speak of a severe polarization, it is found that the divide is actually small in number, but grows over time, raising questions about journalistic practice and media ethics. It is concluded that Scandinavian reporting on the Middle East needs to be seriously evaluated and reformed in order to improve its credibility.

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  • Media, Military and Masculinity

    2015. Joel W. Abdelmoez A., Noha Mellor, Elie Wardini.

    This study aims to investigate the connection between concepts of masculinity and militarism in Egyptian online press. In order to avoid reification of stereotypical, orientalist constructions of Arab men as villains or oppressors, this study does not look at men in the typical sense, either as individuals or as a group, but as gendered subjects, socially constructed through performativity. Furthermore, this study is grounded in material derived from four months of ethnographic field studies in Cairo, exploring the understanding of masculinities by Egyptian media audiences and media professionals. The purpose of this study, as such, is to locate ‘militarised masculinity’ within Egyptian online press; to explore how militarism and notions of masculinity become entangled and what role the media plays in perpetuating this entanglement. Seeing how the military is an institution of state-sanctioned violence, combined with a rigid, normative representation of men and a shunning of ‘deviant masculinities’ in media, it is possible that a celebration of (ideal) masculinity as militaristic is related to issues of violence against women, and persecution of non-heterosexual men. In a time when media personalities are actively working with the police to ‘hunt’ gay men, and publicly expose those seen as deviating from ‘traditional’ or ‘hegemonic’ masculinity, it is today even more important to examine Egyptian media, in regards to minority and gender representation as well as hegemonic discourse. 

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  • "Thawra di wala inqilab?" Representationer av Muhammad Mursis avsättande i Egyptiska och Nordiska nättidningar

    2014. Joel Wiklund Abdelmoez. Babylon - Nordisk tidsskrift for Midtøstenstudier 12 (2), 100-113

    Article

    Var det en revolution eller en statskupp? Den tredje juli, 2013, avsattes egyptens första demokratiskt valda president, och sedan dess har media kämpat med vad de ska kalla händelsen. Revolution eller statskupp, det är frågan.

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