Rahime Özgün Kehya (PhD) is an academic at Kafkas University in the Department of Cinema and Television. Her research focuses on migration, gender, integration, cultural diversity, and otherness in film and media studies. She conducted a research project at the Institute of Media Studies at the Philipps University of Marburg in Germany. She has also worked for multinational companies and directed and co-produced several short films. She has received research and merit scholarships from DAAD in Germany and TUBITAK in Turkey.