Mahmoud Eid is an Associate Professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Dr. Eid previously taught in the University of Regina’s School of Journalism in Regina, Saskatchewan, and in Carleton University’s School of Journalism and Communication in Ottawa, Ontario. His professional expertise lies in quantitative and qualitative research regarding the effects of mass media and social development. His teaching experience, research interests, and publications concentrate on international communication, media studies, communication research methods, terrorism, crisis management and conflict resolution, modernity, and the political economy of communication.

Dr. Eid is the editor of Global Media Journal — Canadian Edition. He is the series editor of Communication Research Methods: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches, the editor of Cybercultures, and co-editor of Introduction to Media Studies.

Dr. Eid’s current research aims at developing rational choices and strategies for Canadian communication decision-makers to use when faced with various potential transnational and internal terrorist situations.