Research

Performativity of gender and race; Discourse, cultural production and social struggle; Media and socio-cultural change in Arab World; Material and visual cultures; Arab Cultural Studies; Cultural practices of Second generation British-Arabs; Arab migrants in the UK; History of Arab London.

Selected Publications

Aly, R & Baumann, G. (2012) The BBC World Service in Arabic: A Dilemmatic Triangle Competing Elites, Conflicting Priorities, and Contested Media Strategies. In Gillespie and Webb (Eds.) Cosmopolitan Contact Zones at the BBC World Service. (CRESC) Routledge, London. (Forthcoming)

Aly, R (2012) Producing men, the Nation and Commodities: Militarism in Egypt. In Selby and Stavrianakis (eds.) Contemporary Militarism: Towards a New Research Agenda for International Relations. Routledge, London. (Forthcoming)

Aly, R (2011). Mediating ‘the Nation’: from State to Public Service Broadcasting, critically engaging Egypt as a complex society. Arab Media and Society July 2011

Aly, R (2011) Public Policy Recommendations for Arab Media and Citizenship in the UK.

Collyer, M & Aly, R (2011) Migration Legislation, Institutions and Policies in the Euromed Region (Euromed Migration II). Sussex Centre for Migration Research, University of Sussex, UK.

Aly, R & Georgiou, M (2010) Media, Citizenship and Arab Transnational Television Cultures in London.

Aly, R (2010) ‘Transnational Arab Media in London’. Journalism: Theory, Practice & Criticism. 11(6).