Hanan Badr is a media and communication scholar. Her work focuses on digital journalism, comparative media systems and transformation. Adopting a critical lens, she seeks to understand how political and digital transformations change journalism and media systems with a focus on the Arab region. She held positions at Freie Universität Berlin, Cairo University and Orient-Institut Beirut. Hanan won awards including the Kluge Fellowship at the Library of Congress. She was elected as a Vice-Chair for the Activism, Communication and Social Change at the International Communication Association.