Jad Melki, the research director of ICMPA and a faculty member at the Salzburg Academy, is a visiting professor at Towson University and Johns Hopkins University, teaching courses on research methods, media and society, media literacy, and media, war and terrorism. Melki has been a broadcast and online journalist for over 10 years working with American and Arabic media. He was part of the webby award and Press Club award winning Hot Zone team (Yahoo! News), covering the Hezbollah-Israel war of summer 2006. Melki was a project manager at the Salzburg Global Seminar and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the College of Journalism at UMD.
