Syed Muhammad Abubakar

Graduate Teaching Assistant

Climate change communication, environmental journalism, and health communication

Syed Muhammad Abubakar is an international award-winning environmental journalist and a 2018-19 Chevening Alumni. He has been writing on environmental causes for almost a decade and his bylines have appeared in D+C, Reuters, Dialogue Earth, Dawn, The News International, and Express Tribune, among others.

Abubakar has also served with various environmental organizations as a communications expert, including IFRC, WWF, ICIMOD, and LEAD.

Abubakar is a citizen of Pakistan.

Current Research

Analysis of 2025 floods in Pakistan from a health perspective
Media content analysis of social media posts related to the 2025 GLOF event in Ghizer district, Gilgit Baltistan, Pakistan

Selected Publications

Gilani, H., Ahmad, S., Qazi, W. A., Abubakar, S. M., & Khalid, M. (2020). Monitoring of urban landscape ecology dynamics of Islamabad capital territory (ICT), Pakistan, over four decades (1976–2016). Land, 9(4), 123.

Courses Taught

COMM 433: Environmental Communication, Campaigns, and Social Movements (Current - Spring 2026)

COMM 101: Fundamentals of Communication (2024, 2025, Current - Spring 2026)

COMM 203: Introduction to Journalism (Fall 2025)

Education

PhD in Communication, George Mason University (in progress)

MA in International Journalism, Cardiff University, UK

MA in Mass Communication, University of the Punjab, Pakistan

In the Media

https://www.dandc.eu/en/contributors/syed-muhammad-abubakar

https://dialogue.earth/en/author/syed-muhammad-abubakar/

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-pakistan-water-climate-change/zero-carbon-water-pumps-turn-pakistans-barren-mountains-green-idUSKBN21G0KT/

https://www.dawn.com/authors/4184/syed-muhammad-abubakar

https://www.thenews.com.pk/tns/writer/syed-muhammad-abubakar