Rand El Zein is a programme coordinator for HISDEMAB. She holds a PhD in Communication Studies from Universität Salzburg (Between Violence, Vulnerability, Resilience and Resistance: Arab Satellite Television on Displaced Syrian Women during the Syrian Conflict, 2021) and a Master’s degree in Media Studies from the American University of Beirut (2015), where she also worked as a research assistant (2016-2017).
She published: “Rethinking the Relationship Between Child Marriage and Failed Infrastructure During the Syrian Conflict: A Discourse Analysis of Arab Television News“, in Eva Hausbacher, Liesa Herbst, Julia Ostwald and Martina Thiele (eds.), geschlecht_transkulturell, Wiesbaden, Springer VS, 2020, p.283-301.