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Annabelle Sreberny

English academic

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ18352464 ↗
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Annabelle Sreberny (5 September 1949 – 30 December 2022) was a writer, scholar, and professor of Global Media and Communication and Director of the Centre for Media and Film Studies at SOAS. Her writing covers globalization, communication, and culture with specific foci on international news and Iran.

Politics

Sreberny was a Labour Party member of the Islington North

Constituency Labour Party in Highbury East branch.

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This entry incorporates text from “Annabelle Sreberny” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.