She teaches a variety of convergent journalism courses as well as women and gender studies. Originally from Egypt, Eltantawy moved to the U.S. in 2000. Prior to that, she lived in Cairo, Egypt, where she worked as a Reuters news correspondent. Her research interests include: media representation of women; media in the Middle East; social media & cyber activism as well as critical & cultural studies. Eltantawy’s work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Feminist Media Studies and the Journal of Arab & Muslim Media Research.