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Dr Omar El Masri

Senior Lecturer in Criminology

BUSINESS, COMPUTING & SOCIAL SCIENCES
Telephone:
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Omar's academic interests are concerned with the experience of everyday life for inhabitants living in cities emerging from protracted social conflicts with a focus on Lebanon and Northern Ireland.

Biography

Originally from Beirut, Lebanon, Omar’s academic interests are concerned with the experience of everyday life for inhabitants living in cities emerging from protracted social conflicts with a focus on Lebanon and Northern Ireland. Omar’s research interest examines the intentions and motivations of urban street artists (and other subcultures) whose practices reveal new forms of civic engagement with the city.

Qualifications

  • PhD, “Re-Imagining Spaces for Representation in the Divided City: The Cases of Urban Street Art in ‘Post’-Conflict Cities of Beirut and Belfast”, Transitional Justice Institute, Ulster University, 2020
  • MPhil in Conflict Resolution and Reconciliation Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin, 2016
  • MSc in Conflict Analysis and Resolution, School for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University, 2012
  • BS Economics, Lebanese American University, Beirut, Lebanon, 2004
  • BA Political Science, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, 2003

Teaching & Research

Teaching

  • NS4404 Global Challenges
  • NS5501 Crime and Society: Theorising Crime
  • NS6414: Space, Place, and Communities
  • NS7529: Post-Conflict Societies

Research

Ongoing Research Projects:

  • “Decolonising the Criminological Core: Implementing a processual approach to curricular decolonisation with antiracist praxis (DAP)” – University Teaching Fellowship, internal funding, 2022-2024.
  • “Co-producing social spaces on Hardwick Campus: Experiencing inclusion in a Community-based Mural Art Project” – Enhancing Community Relationships, internal funding, 2022-2023.

 

Research Interests:

  • Geographies of cultural heritage in post-conflict cities (Beirut, Belfast).
  • Ethnic conflict, territoriality and intersections of urban art.
  • Critical approaches to urban design, urban politics and co-production of space.
  • Politics of everyday life and lived experiences.

Publications

More publications from Dr Omar El Masri can be found in the Research Repository.
https://www.glos.ac.uk/profile/omar-el-masri/