Constructing the Terrorist Threat: Islamophobia, the Media and the War on Terror

Deepa Kumar is Associate Professor of Media Studies at Rutgers University. She is the author of Outside the Box: Corporate Media, Globalization and the UPS Strike and Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire. She has written dozens of articles that have appeared in scholarly journals as well as independent media. She has shared her expertise in numerous media outlets such as BBC, The New York Times, NPR, USA Today, Philadelphia Inquirer, The Danish Broadcast Corporation, Telesur and other national and international news media outlets.