Paolo Mura

Professor Paolo Mura

Prof Paolo Mura

Paolo Mura is a Pro­fess­or at the Col­lege of Com­mu­nic­a­tion and Media Sci­ences, Zayed Uni­ver­sity, Abu Dhabi, UAE.

His research exam­ines tour­ist exper­i­ences and rep­res­ent­a­tions, with a par­tic­u­lar focus on gender, power in aca­demia, travel sub­cul­tures, and artist­ic expres­sions. He takes a crit­ic­al qual­it­at­ive approach to his work.

Over the years, Prof Mura has gained extens­ive exper­i­ence and con­duc­ted field­work across New Zea­l­and, Aus­tralia, Greece, Malay­sia, and the United Arab Emir­ates, bring­ing a com­par­at­ive and inter­na­tion­al per­spect­ive to his studies.

Imagining peace: How travel writing bridges divides between Israel and the UAE

and January 10, 2026

Imagining peace: How travel writing bridges divides between Israel and the UAE.

Fol­low­ing the 2020 Abra­ham Accords, the United Arab Emir­ates (UAE) trans­formed from a dis­tant adversary to a pop­u­lar hol­i­day des­tin­a­tion for Israelis. 

Dr Irit Shmuel and Prof Paolo Mura ana­lyse how travel nar­rat­ives are help­ing to bridge the cul­tur­al divide between the two places.

It’s a “Good Tour­ism” Insight.

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