Wazhmah Osman

Wazhmah Osman is a filmmaker and associate professor in the Klein College of Media and Communication at Temple University. Her research and teaching are rooted in feminist media ethnographies that focus on the political economy of global media industries and the regimes of representation and visual culture they produce. She is the author of Television and the Afghan Culture Wars: Brought to You by Foreigners, Warlords, and Activists (2020), which won the 2021 Activism, Communication, and Social Justice Outstanding Book Award of the International Communication Association. She has published in leading journals, including the coauthored article “Decolonizing Transnational Feminism” (2024) in the Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies. Osman has appeared as a commentator on Democracy Now!, NPR, and Al Jazeera, among other news outlets.