Hana S. Noor Al-Deen (Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo) is a professor of communication at the University of North Carolina Wilmington where she has been teaching since 1985. She has also earned postdoctoral education in digital multimedia and 3D computer animation. Noor Al-Deen has been involved with digital technology for more than a quarter of a century starting with her doctoral dissertation which dealt with Corporate Teleconferencing: Audio, Video, and Computer. She has been teaching courses in digital media, the usage of social media, advertising, mass communication, and intercultural/international communication.

Noor Al-Deen was the lead editor of the book titled Social Media: Usage and Impact published by Lexington Books. She was the editor of the book titled Cross-Cultural Communication and Aging in the United States published by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates/Routledge. Her work has appeared in books published by Sage Publications, Greenwood Publishing, and Roxbury Publishing as well as in journals such as International Journal of Advertising, World Communication Journal, Global Media Journal, and Journal of Black Studies. Among her journal articles was The Evolution of Rai Music published by Journal of Black Studies in 2005 and republished by Sage Publications in 2011 in one of the four-volume distillation of the best that has been thought and published in the academic study of Popular Music. Noor Al-Deen was a consulting editor of the International and Intercultural Communication Annual and an associate editor of The Carolinas Speech Communication Annual Journal. She was a book proposal reviewer for Sage Publications as well as for Allyn & Bacon Publishing, a reviewer for the Journal of International & Intercultural Communication (JIIC), a convention paper reviewer for the: Newspaper Division of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Mass Communication, Popular Communication, and Intercultural Communication Divisions – Southern States Communication Association (SSCA). She has conducted research and presented academic papers in Canada, China, Egypt, France, and Turkey.

Moreover, Noor Al-Deen has devoted more than 25 years of her life toward helping abused, homeless, and shelter animals. She is a proud and active member of various animal rights organizations such as the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA), World Wildlife Fund (WWF), and Animal Legal Defense Fund (ALDF).