Author notes
Adi Kuntsman is Simon Research Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and Research Institute for Cosmopolitan Cultures at the University of Manchester, UK. Her research interests include queer politics in Israel-Palestine; war and violence in digital media; and affect and emotions. Kuntsman is the author of Figurations of Violence and Belonging: Queerness, Migranthood and Nationalism in Cyberspace and Beyond (Peter Lang, 2009) and the co-editor of Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality (with Esperanza Miyake, Raw Nerve Books, 2008) and Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012).
Noor Al-Qasimi is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for Cultural, Media and Creative Industries at Kings College, London. Her research interests include gender, sexuality, globalization; postcolonial and queer studies; Middle Eastern cultural studies; and theories of assemblage and affect. Previously Al-Qasimi held a research fellowship at the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality at New York University and a teaching fellowship in the Department of Media, Culture and Communication also at NYU. She has authored numerous articles in Camera Obscura: Feminism, Media, and Cultural Studies and Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, as well as book chapters in texts including Circuits of Visibility: Gender and Transnational Media Cultures, ed. Radha Hegde (New York University Press, 2011). Al-Qasimi is currently working on a manuscript entitled, Anticipatory Governance, Queer Difference and the Post-Oil Generation in the United Arab Emirates. She received a Ph.D. in Film and Television from the University of Warwick.
