Mahitab Ezz El Din is an associate professor, Department of Media and Journalism (MJ) at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Received her Ph.D. in Media and Communication studies from Örebro University, Sweden. Her research interest focuses on Journalism, media and democracy, media laws and regulations, media and society, media and migration/integration as well as media and conflict .
Her recent publications focus on news media racialization as well as diaspora media and her latest publication is on constructive forms for reporting migrants.
Currently leading a research project on the 2022 social media campaign against Swedish social services. Ezz El Din is a member in the research team studying Young citizens and quality of news.
She also received the research excellence grant for 2025 to study the Quran burning crisis: Sweden’s image in Arab news media.
Ezz El Din also has a journalistic experience in several media organisations, lately Ekot Radio Sweden.
Mahitab Ezz El Din, Ph.D.
Faculty of Arts and Humanities · Linnæus University, Sweden — Associate Professor
Research Areas
- Communications Theory
- Journalism
- Media and Communication History
- Media Policy and Regulation
- Media Production and Innovation
- Media Theory
- Political Communication
- Social Media
Ongoing Projects
Highlighted publications
Holt, K., Wahlberg, M., Ezz El Din, M., Nykvist, A., & Dahlén, P. (2025). What They say and What They do … Young Swedish Citizens’ Strategies for Finding News. Journalism Practice, 1–19.
Ezz El Din, M. (2024). News media reporting on immigrants : Between stereotypes and constructive reporting. Mångfaldens möten : Interkulturalitet, utbildning och lärande. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 105-124.
Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Reporting on the New Citizen : Towards Constructive Forms of Reporting on Immigrants. Arab Media & Society. 35. 47-68. Status: Published
Ezz El Din, M. (2023). Arab social media news in Sweden : Site of information or site of struggle?. Middle Eastern Diasporas and Political Communication. London, Routledge.
Ezz El Din, M. (2020). Arab diaspora online media in Sweden : Arab migrants' identity discourses on the AlKompis Facebook page. First Monday. 25.
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