Mahmoud Eid is an associate professor at the Department of Communication, University of Ottawa. He is the author of Interweavement: International Media Ethics and Rational Decision-Making (2008), editor of Exchanging Terrorism Oxygen for Media Airwaves: The Age of Terroredia (2014) and Research Methods in Communication (2011), and the co-editor of Basics in Communication and Media Studies (2012), among other publications.