Nahed Eltantawy is the department chair of communication and an associate professor of journalism and women and gender studies at High Point University, North Carolina. She is originally from Egypt, where she worked as a news correspondent for Thomson Reuters. Eltantawy moved to the US with her family in 2000 and graduated from Georgia State University, with a PhD in Public Communication. Her research areas include media representation of women, media and women in the Middle East, social media activism and critical and cultural studies. Her work has been published in a variety of peer-reviewed journals, including Feminist Media Studies, International Journal of Communication and Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies.