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The Nerdiest Show

 

The Nerdiest Show (TNS) features researchers talking about books received at the desk of the Arab Studies Journal and Jadaliyya. Lightheartedly, we discuss each book in five minutes or so, including the author, title, table of contents, praise on the back cover, and the books' pedagogical utility. Tune in for a thoroughly nerdy affair and don't tell anyone you're doin' it. Watch TNS on YouTube now. 


EPISODES

EPISODE 1 PLAYLIST: Bassam and Nadya are joined by Abdullah al-Arian and Ziad Abu-Rish to discuss books that analyze the Arab Uprisings that began in 2011 (or their aftermath).

EP1 - Chapter 1: Arab Revolution in the 21st Century? Lessons from Egypt and Tunisia
EP1 - Chapter 2: Workers and Thieves: Labor Movements and Popular Uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt
EP1 - Chapter 3: The Impossible Revolution: Making Sense of the Syrian Tragedy
EP1 - Chapter 4: Syria From Reform to Revolt
EP1 - Chapter 5: Yemen Endures: Civil War, Saudi Adventurism and the Future of Arabia
EP1 - Chapter 6: The Naked Blogger of Cairo: Creative Insurgency in the Arab World
EP1 - Chapter 7: Revolution without Revolutionaries: Making Sense of the Arab Spring
EP1 - Chapter 8: Death of the Nation and Future of the Arab Revolution
EP1 - Chapter 9: Conclusion & Good Night Bush

EPISODE 3 PLAYLIST: Bassam and Nadya are joined by Abdullah al-Arian to discuss books that analyze the role of the United States and Europe in the Middle East.

EP3 - Chapter 1: The Limits of Westernization: A Cultural History of American in Turkey. EP3 - Chapter 2: The Political Economy of America’s New Way of War EP3 - Chapter 3: Seeing the World: How the US Universities Make Knowledge in a Global Era EP3 - Chapter 4: An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera’s struggle in America EP3 - Chapter 5: The Rise of the Arab American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960’s-1980’s EP3 - Chapter 6: Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970’s EP3 - Chapter 7: America’s Dream Palace: Middle East Expertise and the Rise of the National Security State EP3 - Chapter 8: Practicing Transnationalism: American Studies in the Middle East EP3 - Chapter 9: Field Notes: The Making of Middle East Studies in the United States

EPISODE 2 PLAYLIST: Bassam and Nadya are joined by scholar and legal advocate Noura Erakat to discuss books covering various topics around Israel/Palestine.

EP2 - Chapter 1: The Great War and the Remaking of Palestine
EP2 - Chapter 2: Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine
EP2 - Chapter 3: The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistances
EP2 - Chapter 4: Gaza as Metaphor
EP2 - Chapter 5: Boycott!: The Academy and Justice for Palestine
EP2 - Chapter 6: The Human Right to Dominate
EP2 - Chapter 7: Palestine LTD.: Neoliberalism and Nationalism in the Occupied Territory

 

EPISODE 4 PLAYLIST: Bassam and Nadya are joined by Abdullah al-Arian to discuss books that analyze the role of the United States and Europe in the Middle East.

EP4 - Chapter 1: Pretty Liar: Television, Language, and Gender in Wartime Lebanon EP4 - Chapter 2: Shooting a Revolution: Visual Media and Warfare in Syria
EP4 - Chapter 3: Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution
EP4 - Chapter 4: An Unlikely Audience: Al Jazeera's Struggle in America
EP4 - Chapter 5: The Arabic Print Revolution: Cultural Production and Mass Readership
EP4 - Chapter 6: Rock in a Hard Place: Music and Mayhem in the Middle East
EP4 - Chapter 7: Arab Cinema: History and Cultural Identity: Revised and Updated Edition
EP4 - Chapter 8: Mediating the Arab Uprisings


TNS TEAM

Abdullah Al Arian, Host
Bassam Haddad, Host
Noura Erakat, Host
Nadya Sbaiti, Host
Khalid Namez, Host
Alicia Rodriguez, Video Editor