Lindsay Wise Joins Adham Center

Lindsay Wise has joined the Adham Center as managing editor of Adham Online and deputy managing editor of Transnational Broadcasting Studies journal. Wise's experience as both a journalist and an academic combine to make her an ideal addition to the Center, particularly as TBS prepares to launch a hard-copy edition with a peer-reviewed section.

Wise earned her B.A. in English and Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and graduated with an M. Phil. in Modern Middle Eastern Studies from St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where she earned distinction for her thesis. Titled Words from the Heart: New Forms of Islamic Preaching in Egypt, the thesis analyzed the phenomenon surrounding popular Egyptian "tele-Islamist" Amr Khaled.

In addition to her academic career, Wise interned at wire services and newspapers in the US, including Scripps Howard News Service, States News Service and The Oregonian. She also worked as a stringer for The Virginian Pilot and The New York Times. At the University of Virginia, she was managing editor of the award-winning campus newspaper The Cavalier Daily.

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Wise said the job with Adham and TBS came along at a perfect time, allowing her to remain in Egypt after completing her Arabic studies at AUC. It also enables her to pursue her research interests, which focus on the impact of mass media in the Arab and Islamic worlds, looking particularly at how contemporary Islamist movements are adapting to these new mediums.

"This is a great opportunity for me to keep academia and journalism in my life at the same time," Wise said.

With a new hard-copy edition of TBS in the works, Wise also will play an important role its launch. Her close ties with the Middle East Centre (MEC) at Oxford University will benefit a new partnership between the Adham Center and the MEC, which have agreed to co-publish TBS Journal. In addition to the journal's online content, the hard copy will include an academically refereed section, the editorial board of which will be chaired by Wise's Oxford supervisor Dr. Walter Armbrust.

Schleifer, TBS's publisher and founder, feels that Wise's strong academic interests in and professional skills will be particularly useful to TBS. "We need someone with strong editorial skills and familiarity with the field. She came along at the perfect time."

"We have a signature. We have evolved into the image I want," Schleifer said. "I want the content to grow." This is where Wise comes in.

Wise said she hopes to "strengthen what already is so great about TBS journal -- the interviews, media analysis and industry reporting -- while at the same time broadening the scope of TBS to include more in-depth looks at religious, entertainment and cultural programming, all of which constitute a huge part of the satellite-viewing experience in the region."

In taking over responsibility for the Adham Center's web site as well, Wise is following in the footsteps of former TBS Managing Editor Sarah Sullivan, who developed the concept of Adham Online on the eve of leaving Egypt two and a half years ago. At that time, Sullivan returned to the US to work for the Arab American Institute in Washington, D.C. She has recently joined the Library of Congress as a web producer.

-Daina Moussa