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Anthony Löwstedt

Born in 1961 to a Swedish father and a British mother, I grew up in Sweden and Hong Kong. After studying philosophy, history of ideas, and theory of science in Gothenburg and then in Vienna, I graduated with a doctorate in 1994. I have worked with human rights organizations, including the International Press Institute (IPI) 1994-2004 and Miftah ˆ The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy. My current position is at Webster University's Vienna campus, where I teach media communications, international relations, political science, history, and philosophy. I also taught at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, and at Bir Zeit University in the West Bank. I worked as a senior media consultant for the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Jerusalem from December 2004 until June 2005, and I have worked with various UN agencies on other projects. I have also worked as a factory worker, music composer, research assistant, and high school teacher. I have lectured and published extensively on the issues tackled in this book, as well as in and on philosophy and media studies.

Publications

Comparing Israeli Oppression with South African Apartheid, Palestine Report (Jerusalem), July 13, 2005, Volume 12, Number 4 , http://www.palestinereport.org/art.php?article=839
Jerusalem in My Heart, April 19, 2005, http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=7223&CategoryId=5
Here We Are, a photo essay on Palestine and Palestinians, with photos by Osama Silwadi, Arabic text by Wafa' Abdel Rahman and Sam Bahour, English text by Anthony Löwstedt, and a Foreword by Hanan Ashrawi, Ramallah: Miftah, 2005
The Rights and Duties of Journalists with Regard to Dignity, Death, and Dying, conference paper presented at the conference, 'Mass Media in the Arab World and Beyond: Politics and Ethics', organized by the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Goethe-Institut, the Media Department at Bir Zeit University, and the Modern Media Institute at Al-Quds University, Ramallah, February 19-20, 2005 (published in Arabic in Al-Ayyam newspaper, March 21, 2005; original English version: http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=6790&CategoryId=5 )
The Most Important Difference between the Palestinian and the Iraqi Elections? January 24, 2005, http://www.miftah.org/Display.cfm?DocId=6380&CategoryId=5
IPI Intifada Report: Press Freedom Violations in Israel and Palestine, September 29, 2000 - September 28, 2004, International Press Institute, 5th edition, October 19, 2004 (1st ed.: 2000), http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/publications_detail.html?ctxid=CH0057&docid=CMS1141809995024, (with Bathish, Nisreen; Dadge, David; Khalidi, Natasha; Larsson, Charlotta; Leaper, Glenn W.; Madhoun, Husam; Orlova, Diana; Power, Catherine; Trionfi, Barbara; Varghese, Reena; Werklund, Niklas; Yankey, Paul; Zaszlos, Silvia)
Stereotypical Images of Arabs in the Western Mainstream Media, research paper presented at the conference, 'Media Ethics & Journalism in the Arab World: Theory, Practice & Challenges Ahead', organized by the Heinrich Böll Foundation in cooperation with the Institute for Professional Journalists and the Lebanese American University, Beirut, June 9-11, 2004. Published in Abu-Fadil, Magda (ed.): Media Ethics & Journalism in the Arab World: Theory, Practice & Challenges Ahead, Beirut: Lebanese American University, 2004, http://ipj.lau.edu.lb/events/20040609/200406_proceedings.pdf
The Future of Freedom of Expression and Its Limitations on the Web, research paper presented at the Beacon for Freedom of Expression Conference (conference website: http://www.bibalex.org/beaconforfreedom), organized by Bibliotheca Alexandrina, The Norwegian Ministry for Cultural and Church Affairs, UNESCO, The Swedish Institute, held at Bibliotheca Alexandrina in Alexandria, Egypt, September 18-20, 2004 (publication forthcoming)
On the History of the Idea of World Citizenship, Die Bunte Zeitung (Vienna), December 2003
Caught in the Crossfire: The Iraq War and the Media ˆ A Diary of Claims and Counterclaims, Vienna: International Press Institute, 2003, ISBN 3-9501125-1-0, http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/publications_detail.html?ctxid=CH0057&docid=CMS1141820686901 (with Leaper, Glenn W. and Madhoun, Husam)
The State of Press Freedom in the World, in Teaching Human Rights, Informationen zur Menschenrechtsbildung, Ludwig Boltzmann Institut für Menschenrechte, 2003/15, http://www.humanrights.at/images/news/The%20State%20of%20Press%20Freedo m%20in%20the%20World5.doc ; German-language version: Zur Lage der Pressefreiheit weltweit, http://www.humanrights.at/images/news/Löwstedt%20Leitartikel%20Endfassung.doc
Global Guardians of the Freedom of Expression, in Langenbucher, Wolfgang R. (ed.): Die Kommunikationsfreiheit der Gesellschaft: Die demokratischen Funktionen eines Grundrechts, Publizistik - Vierteljahreshefte für Kommunikationsforschung, Sonderheft 4/2003, Wiesbaden: Westdeutscher Verlag, 2003 (with Hahsler, Kristina)
The Intifada, Hasbara and the Media, in Palestine-Israel Journal (Jerusalem), Vol. 10, No. 2, 2003 (with Madhoun, Husam)
The Clash of Histories of Civilization, New African, Vol. 37, June 2002
The Need for a Global Association of Independent Press Councils, Paper presented at 'The Ethics of Journalism: Comparison and Transformations in the Islamic-Western Context', an international conference organized by the German Institute for Middle East Studies and the Zeit Foundation, held under the auspices of the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, Johannes Rau, at Bellevue Palace, Berlin, March 29-30, 2001. Published in Hafez, Kai (ed.): Media Ethics in the Dialogue of Cultures: Journalistic Self-Regulation in Europe, the Arab World, and Muslim Asia, Hamburg: Deutsches Orient-Institut, 2003
Weltstaat gegen Weltmarkt ('World State Versus World Market'), Die Bunte Zeitung (Vienna), October 3, 2000
Philosophie im alten Ägypten ('Philosophy in Ancient Egypt'), guest lecture in the series, 'Theorie und Praxis der Interkulturalität', March 14, 2000, IWK, Institut für Wissenschaft und Kunst, Vienna, Summary of lecture: http://homehobel.phl.univie.ac.at/~iwk/iwk-bericht00.html#interkultak
Über die Verdrängung der künstlichen Ausrottung im Darwinismus: Ursachen, Vorläufer und Alternativen ('On the Repression of Artificial Extermination in Darwinism: Causes, Precedents and Alternatives'), in Rupits, Josef; Schönberger, Elisabeth & Zehetner, Cornelius (eds.): Achtung vor Anthropologie. Interdisziplinäre Studien zum philosophischen Empirismus und zur transzendentalen Philosophie. Michael Benedikt zum 70. Geburtstag. Wien: Turia und Kant, 1998
Die verheerenden Folgen des Agro- und Eurozentrismus Charles Darwins ('The Disastrous Consequences of Charles Darwin's Agro- and Eurocentrism'), in Ethik und Sozialwissenschaften, 9, 1998
Kultur oder Evolution? Eine Anthropologische Philosophie ('Culture or Evolution? An Anthropological Philosophy'), Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang Verlag, ISBN 3-631-48178-0, 1995