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My first talk at a record shop! This Saturday, in Brooklyn, I’ll introduce an Egyptian dissident whose songs are experiencing a revival. A live performance of their music will follow 🎶

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So many new sources to add to my class on Islamophobia in the US following Zohran Mamdani’s brilliant win.

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My first talk at a record shop! This Saturday, in Brooklyn, I’ll introduce an Egyptian dissident whose songs are experiencing a revival. A live performance of their music will follow 🎶

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Scholars of the global south, let’s get creative here! I’m thinking of a book on what the life and legacy of an Egyptian political dissident can teach us about the grandeur of the American dream 🙃

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Writing a book on something other than American exceptionalism? No need to apply for a Public Scholars grant from the National Endowment for the humanities. What a joke.

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So proud of this young man from South Sudan, Khaman Maluach, the 10th pick in the NBA draft!

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A tenure track opening at the American University of Cairo in anthropology just went up! To learn more: www.h-net.org/jobs/job_dis...

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I just received word that one of my students, who wrote a brilliant final paper on the history of family planning in Iran, just received @dartmouthartsci.bsky.social's top prize for writing in a first-year course!

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Nothing like scrolling on Facebook and seeing a photo of your book on a "best sellers" shelf in Cairo : )

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This Saturday, at 7pm in Brooklyn, I'll be giving a talk on how Egypt's cassette culture came to be and the life and legacy of Shaykh Imam, a political dissident whose songs are experiencing a revival. A live performance of Imam's music will follow! If you'll be in NYC, swing by Record Grouch 🎶

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Last week, my dental hygienist asked me about the Madleen aid boat to Gaza and Israel’s interception of it in international waters. This exchange gave me hope. More and more people are beginning to ask questions and seek out information on what’s happening in Palestine / Israel.

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Today, student evaluations arrived. At a point when so much is wrong in the world, comments like this one mean a lot.

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If you read one thing about Iran and Israel today, have it be this @newlinesmag.bsky.social essay on propaganda by Nahid Siamdoust. newlinesmag.com/argument/bom...

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A new edition of Mohammed Naguib’s memoir will soon debut. Its title, “I Was President of Egypt,” always struck me, an attempt to be remembered in the shadow cast by his larger than life successor, Gamal Abdel Nasser.

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Wondering what is happening with Iran and Israel? Check out this talk taking place tonight! Shared by Nahid Siamdoust, one of the most perceptive scholars of Iran out there.

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Just saw this post @dannyghajjar.bsky.social! A thousand congratulations! I cannot wait to see the stories you bring into being on all things music. 🎶

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One of many books I cannot wait to pick up in Egypt this August. www.shorouknews.com/columns/view...

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A thousand thanks to Abdelhalim Hefaina for this engaging essay on "Media of the Masses" for Manassa News! To have someone take the time to engage with your book so closely is truly a gift. manassa.news/stories/24822

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For anyone writing a book about music, you might find this invitation to present of interest! I participated in the @iaspm-us.bsky.social "Popular Music Books in Process Series" a couple of years ago, and it was a wonderful experience. 🎶

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“This is a regime that has something to hide from the civilized world,” then President Bush said about Saddam in 2002. The US invasion of Iraq followed and resulted in the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. This language of “civilized” and “uncivilized” is dangerous.

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"How is it that the same politicians who preach family values are the ones tearing families apart?" Take a few minutes to listen to this letter today: "To my newborn son: I am absent not out of apathy, but conviction." www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsRS...

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A headline that does not adopt the passive voice.

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في حد سمع عن شركة تسجيل "الشعب" قبل كده؟ أفكر إنها كانت موجودة في لبنان.

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A review essay that awaits to be written.

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On AI and the (re)writing of history. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/16/m...

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To all Dartmouth graduates, whose commencement concluded moments ago, alf mabrouk! It was a great joy to work with so many of you. May you continue to learn, grow, and actively engage with the wider world around you.

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A Saturday morning well spent.

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From #NoKings New Haven today.

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An account of what is happening in Gaza that is at once difficult and necessary to read. @mosababutoha.bsky.social's latest essay for the @newyorker.com. www.newyorker.com/news/essay/w...

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Today, I’ll be thinking not with a text, but with a tape. This Shaykh Imam cassette has a story to tell, and will feature in an essay I’m currently crafting.

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Earlier today, the Fulbright board resigned in protest of political appointees at the State Department sending rejection letters to scholars approved by the board "based mainly on their research topics." Policing the production of knowledge is a priority for Trump's administration.

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Sometimes sentences stick with us. One that I’m thinking with today appears in Raphael Cormack’s “Midnight in Cairo,” where he sets out to write “the story of a parallel women’s movement, one that happened in the demi-monde, late at night after the high-class critics had gone to bed.”

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Sometimes sentences stick with us. One that I’m thinking with today appears in Raphael Cormack’s “Midnight in Cairo,” where he sets out to write “the story of a parallel women’s movement, one that happened in the demi-monde, late at night after the high-class critics had gone to bed.”

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Still one of the most engaging introductions I have ever read. After introducing travelers who were mesmerized by Mehmed Ali’s eyes in Ottoman Egypt, Khaled Fahmy sets out to write a history “without being stung by the pasha or hypnotized by his gaze.”

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Chihab El Khachab, whose forthcoming exploration of Egypt's Ministry of Culture I cannot wait to read, recently delivered a brilliant lecture on the relationship between ethnography and history. For a recording of it: echo360.org.uk/media/b41d69...

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At the end of each class, I ask students what their one takeaway is from the course. Without fail, many say: the ability to critically engage with media. In light of these comments over the years, I’ve come to believe that this skill is one the most important things we can cultivate as teachers.

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At the end of each class, I ask students what their one takeaway is from the course. Without fail, many say: the ability to critically engage with media. In light of these comments over the years, I’ve come to believe that this skill is one the most important things we can cultivate as teachers.

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To all of my students this year, thank you. Your eagerness to learn more about the Middle East was energizing and your commitment to thinking critically and creatively was inspiring. As my 8th year at Dartmouth draws to a close, it is all of you who make my time there meaningful.

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An Umm Kulthum cassette from a recording label that became well known for its pirated productions.

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One's view upon entering the Diwan Bookstore in Zamalek 🥹

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One's view upon entering the Diwan Bookstore in Zamalek 🥹

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NYC friends, check out this launch party tonight in Brooklyn, where I’ll be speaking later this month about Egypt’s cassette culture!

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Today marks the 30th anniversary of the passing of Shaykh Imam, an artist whose life takes center stage in this episode of Kerning Cultures and whose extraordinary story is the subject of a new book I’m currently writing. open.spotify.com/episode/6ddl...

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