Sahar Khamis is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Maryland, College Park. She holds a Ph.D. in Mass Media and Cultural Studies from the University of Manchester in England. She is the co-author of the books Islam Dot Com: Contemporary Islamic Discourses in Cyberspace and Egyptian Revolution 2.0: Political Blogging, Civic Engagement and Citizen Journalism, and the co-editor of the book Arab Women’s Activism and Socio-Political Transformation: Unfinished Gendered Revolutions.