Lama Kahhal holds a PhD in Media Studies from Sorbonne Nouvelle University- Paris 3 since 2014. She is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Communication at University of Cincinnati and Xavier University in Ohio, United States. She was an Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Information in the Lebanese University for seven years since 2015. She worked as a freelance journalist in the Lebanese newspaper Assafir between 2007 and 2012. In her research, she focuses on Digital Media, as well as the transformations in media professions in light of new technologies in the fields of Information and Communication. She is also interested in the role of Lebanese media in policy making especially in gender-based issues. She joined The Lebanese Association of Women Researchers- Bahithat in 2017.