Ahmed Najm Abed holds a PhD in multimodal discourse and critical discourse analysis from the Polytechnic University of Valencia (UPV). He is interested in linguistics, especially in critical discourse analysis, media discourse, and multimodal discourse. His research considers the integration paradigms of Critical Discourse Analysis, framing analysis, and multimodality across different genres of communication. He conducts research works at the Centre of Discourse Studies in Barcelona under Tuen van Dijk’s supervision and in multimodality at the University of Orebro, Sweden. He is working on long-term projects using multimodal methods to understand the complexity of text and visual relations in meaning-making processes.