Emergency Teach-In S48 EP1, Jadaliyya, Nov 1, 2024

Featuring Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist; Adel Iskandar, Media Landscape Specialist; and Bassam Haddad, Social Science Specialist  

Learn how to develop sensitivity to supporters of Genocide on U.S. campuses so they can feel comfortable as they stand together with Israel (and the U.S.) on the heads of all human beings. Because my feelings trump your Genocide.

Featuring the expert hosts of “3Arabs&,” Bassam Haddad, Sinan Antoon, and Adel Iskandar, a multinational triglyceride think tank that provides satirical dilution to contemporary banalities.

Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar, and translator. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry. A third collection of poetry in English, entitled Postcards from the Underworld, was published by Seagull Books this past October. He has been described as one of the most acclaimed Arab novelists. His most recent work in Arabic is a novel entitled Khuzama. His scholarly works include the book Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf: The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry. He is associate professor at New York University and co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies and the Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of numerous works including Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation (University of California Press, 2010). Iskandar is also a co-editor of Jadaliyya.

Bassam Haddad is founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is co-founder and Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as founding editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film About Baghdad and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism.