Dale Hudson is an associate professor at NYU Abu Dhabi. He co-authored Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places (2015), authored Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods (2017), and co-edited a double issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication (2021) and the forthcoming Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet (2023).