Abdelaaziz El Bakkali is an associate professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology and a Post-Doc Fulbright visiting scholar at the Center of Muslim Experience (CME) at Arizona State University in the US (2024/25). He is also a lecturer at SMBA University in Fes, Morocco. He was a PhD Joint-Sup fellow at SIU, Illinois, and MVU, Rabat, Morocco. He obtained his PhD in media and communication in 2014. He served as a US Dept of State Fulbright P4T at UD Delaware (2007/2008). His works focus on cultural studies and anthropology, mainly media, gender, and religious studies. He has edited some books and published articles in these related research areas. El Bakkali has done other educational research as someone who has taught English for over 24 years..