Leon Barkho
Ph.D, Research Fellow
Research
As an academic he has written several papers on linguistics, translation, and media and communication. His most recent publications include Nordic Television at the Turn of the Century: An Overview of Broadcasters and Audiences (working paper); The Arabic Aljazeera Vs Britain’s BBC and America’s CNN – Who Does Journalism Right (American Communication Journal, 2006); Unpacking the discursive and social links in Aljazeera, BBC and CNN’s Middle East reporting (Journal of Arab and Muslim Media Research, 2007); BBC’s discursive strategies and practices (Journalism Studies, 2008); Fundamentalism through Arab and Muslim Eyes: A Hermeneutic Interpretation (book chapter, Colorado University, 2008); Strategies of power and control in multilingual global broadcasters – How Aljazeera, the BBC and CNN shape their Middle East news discourse (Studies in Language and Capitalism, 2008).
His next major work is scheduled for Journal of Pragmatics early 2009.
Background
Leon Barkho taught English and translation at Iraq’s Mosul University, before leaving for Reuters News Agency in 1991 and becoming the agency’s Baghdad bureau chief in 1993. He also spent three years covering for The Associated Press and Dow Jones News Wires. His reports as a journalist appeared in major world newspapers. Since 2001, he has been working at Sweden’s Jönköping University.