About

I am a Professor of English at Kingsborough Community College-CUNY and of Middle Eastern Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. I’m also on the faculty of the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research. My areas of specialization include postcolonial literature and theory, the culture and politics of the Middle East and North Africa, literary and cultural theory, critical race studies, and poetry and poetics. My publications include the book Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different; the edited collection Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives; and the co-edited volume “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey (with Nazan Üstündağ and Emrah Yildiz). Last but not least, I am a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, an e-zine dedicated to the politics and culture of the Middle East and North Africa.

Education

PhD, Literatures in English, Rutgers University, 2000

Women’s Studies Certificate, Rutgers University, 2000

MA, Near Eastern Studies, New York University, ABD

MA, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, 1994

BA with Honors, English Language and Literature, Fairleigh Dickinson University, 1991

Blog Posts

    Publications

    Frantz Fanon and the Future of Cultural Politics: Finding Something Different (Lexington, 2014).

    Editor, Frantz Fanon: Critical Perspectives (Routledge, 1999).

    Co-editor (with Nazan Üstündağ and Emrah Yildiz), “Resistance Everywhere”: The Gezi Protests and Dissident Visions of Turkey, special issue of JadMag, December 2013.

    “Foucault, Fanon, Intellectuals, Revolutions,” forthcoming in Critical Horizons: The Postcolonial Contemporary, ed. Jini Kim Watson and Gary Wilder (New York: Fordham UP, 2017).

    “Frantz Fanon,” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory, forthcoming 2016.

    “The Arab Spring 2011,” in The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz (Wiley-Blackwell, 2016).

    “The Egyptian Revolution and the Problem of International Solidarity,” in Revolutionary Egypt: Connecting Domestic and International Struggles, ed. Reem Abou-El-Fadl (Routledge, 2015).

    “‘Enough of This Scandal’: Reading Gilroy through Fanon, or Who Comes After ‘Race’?” in Retrieving the Human: Reading Paul Gilroy, ed. Rebecka Rutledge Fisher and Jay Garcia (SUNY Press, 2014).

    “Palestine in Scare Quotes: From the NYT Grammar Book” and “On Being ‘Wrong’ on Iraq,” in Mediating the Arab Uprisings, ed. Adel Iskander and Bassam Haddad (Tadween Books, 2013).

    “Their Fight Is Our Fight: Occupy Wall Street, the Arab Spring, and New Modes of Solidarity Today,” in Is This What Democracy Looks Like?, ed. Andrew Ross, Cristina Beltrán, A. J. Bauer, and Rana Jaleel (Social Text: Periscope, December 2012).

    “Edward Said’s Legacy,” in Arab Studies Journal 20 (2012).

    “Fanon Now: Singularity and Solidarity,” in The Journal of Pan African Studies 5 (2011).

    “‘Toute décolonisation est une réussite’: Les damnés de la terre Fifty Years On,” in Journal of French and Francophone Philosophy 21 (2011).

    “‘My Lonely and Beautiful Country’: On the Cinema of Turkey,” in Jadaliyya (30 December 2011).

    “Missing Edward Said,” in Jadaliyya (25 September 2011).

    “A Creature that Would Be Impossible If It Did Not Exist: Midnight’s Children Turns Thirty,” in Jadaliyya (15 August 2011).

    “Aesthetic Uprisings,” in Jadaliyya (1 May 2011).

    “Frantz Fanon, Jamaica Kincaid, and the Futures of Postcolonial Literature,” in the Journal of Postcolonial Writing 46.5 (2010): 553-64.

    “American Innocence and its Victims: The Pakistani Edition,” in Jadaliyya (4 October 2010).

    “The Humanism Effect: Fanon, Foucault, and Ethics Without Subjects,” in Foucault Studies 7 (2009).

    “Darwish’s Revenants,” in Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture 9.4 (2009).

    “The New State of Poetics,” in Arab Studies Journal 15 (Winter 2006).

    “Blow Up,” in Arab Studies Journal 13-14 (Spring 2006).

    “The Violation of the Global Anti-War Movement,” published in Turkish in Irak Dunya Makhmesi, ed. Müge Gürsoy Sökemen (Metis, 2005), in English in The World Tribunal on Iraq: Making the Case Against War, ed. Müge Gürsoy Sökemen (Olive Branch Press, 2007)

    “Reading the Future,” in Cultural Studies 17 (2003).

    “‘My Heart’s Indian for All That’: Bollywood Film between Home and Diaspora,” in Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies 10 (2003).

    “Frantz Fanon,” in Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Relations, ed. Ellis Cashmore (Routledge, 2003).

    “Reading Bharati Mukherjee, Reading Globalization,” in World Bank Literature, ed. Amitava Kumar (Minnesota, 2003).

    “Iraq Reconstruction Tracker” (co-authored with Elizabeth Rosenberg and Adam Horowitz), in Middle East Report 227 (Summer 2003).

    “Humanism in Question: Fanon and Said,” in A Companion to Postcolonial Studies, ed. Sangeeta Ray and Henry Schwarz (Blackwell, 2000); reprinted in Edward Said, ed. Patrick Williams (Sage, 2001).

    “Here and There: South Asia in Postcoloniality,” in Passages: A Journal of Transnational and Transcultural Studies 2 (Spring 2000).

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