Zainab Abdul-Nabi is an Associate Professor in the School of Creative Media at Bahrain Polytechnic. She previously served as Chair of the Department of Mass Communication and Public Relations at Ahlia University, in Bahrain, and taught journalism courses at the University of Sydney (USYD) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW) in Australia. Her research has been published by high-ranking publishers such as Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, and leading journals including the International Journal of Communication, New Media & Society, and Global Media and Communication.