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 anthropological field as an ethnographer who spent many years traveling between 48 Palestine, the West Bank, Amman, Berlin, London, and elsewhere in the world...

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 research has focused on popular music in the Middle East and North Africa. He has also taught at the American University in Cairo from 1992 to 1996....

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, his years as a PhD student in New York, his ethnographic exploration of the Question of the Other in anthropology, and mainly, his recent book,...

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 Hastings spoke to Professor Bardawil about his new book Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Duke University...

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 production of knowledge in general, and the memory studies in Palestine as a particular site of knowledge-formation. She discussed with him what it...

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 relationship and barriers between Palestinian citizens of Israel and Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, and how these groups struggle for connection....