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Dr. Djabini received a BS from California State University at Sacramento in Communications and a PhD from Brigham Young University in Theater and Cinema, with an emphasis upon the effects of the media on Middle East. He specializes in Middle Eastern cinema and theater and has extensive teaching experience. For 15 years, he worked as a professor and media specialist for the Department of Performing Arts at the University of Tehran, Iran, where he was in charge of policy development and curriculum planning for the undergraduate and graduate programs. He has also served as Dean of the Faculty of Fine Arts and Vice Chancellor for Research. Since the early 1980s, he has been involved in research on the Iranian cinema and the effects of media and technology on Iran and Middle East. Dr. Djabini’s courses at the University of Tehran included the graduate seminar “Media and Society,” as well as “The History of Performing Arts on Iran,” “Persian and Middle Eastern Cinema,” “Marketing, Media and Middle Eastern Society,” “Language and Culture through Film,” “Third World Cinema,” and “The Effect of Media in Middle East.” Dr. Djabini is a past recipient of the Outstanding Administrative Award of the Year from the University of Tehran.  He has also served as a member of the executive committee of the Islamic College for Advanced Studies, at which he was instrumental in the development of a Distance Education Department. Since 2004, he has taught various classes at Rutgers, including “Contemporary Iranian Cinema,” “The Effect of Media and Technology on the Middle East,” “Language and Culture through Film,” and “Third World Cinema.”