Nadeem Karkabi is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Haifa, who studies Palestinian performative culture, and the interrelations between language, race, religion, and nationalism among Mizrahi Jews who perform Arabic music in Israel. In this episode, Aamer Ibraheem invites Karkabi to reflect on his relations to the anthropolog…

Ted Swedenburg is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arkansas. His first book, Memories of Revolt: The 1936-39 Rebellion and the Palestinian National Past, is a study of popular memory based on oral interviews with elderly peasants living in Palestinian villages in the Galilee and the West Bank. Since his first book, Dr. Swedenburg’s re…

Khaled Furani is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at Tel-Aviv University who studies social theory, modernity, language and literature, theology, secularism, Palestine, and the history of the anthropological field. In this episode, Aamer Ibraheem hosts Professor Furani to speak with him about his beginnings in the discipline of anthropology, …

Fadi Bardawil is Assistant Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His research investigates the international circulation of critical theory, the genealogies of post-colonial critique, and the traditions of intellectual inquiry and modalities of political engagement of contemporary Arab thinkers. In this episode, Thayer H…

Ala Alaazeh is an Assistant Professor of cultural anthropology at Birzeit University’s Department Of Social And Behavioral Science, whose research in memory studies focuses on Palestinian memory and the examination of questions such as history, nostalgia, and hegemony. In this episode, Noura Salah Al-Deen spoke with Professor Alaazeh about the prod…

Amahl Bishara is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University, who studies expression, space, settler colonialism, media, and photo-journalism. In this episode, Anna Tyshkov spoke to Professor Bishara about her ongoing ethnographic work in Palestine, and her two current book projects. Her first project is on fragmentation, the relationsh…