Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University
November 12, 2014
5:30pm - 7:00pm
Room 601, William James Hall, 33 Kirkland Street, Cambridge, MA
Hisham Aidi will discuss his recently published, critically acclaimed book Rebel Music: Race, Empire and the New Muslim Culture (Pantheon 2014), a study of American cultural diplomacy towards the Muslim world over the last decade.
About
Aidi is a lecturer at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University. He is also the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008), and editor, with Manning Marable, of Black Routes to Islam (Palgrave 2009). His most recent book has been described by the New York Times as "highly original" and "breathtaking." Writing in the Washington Post, political scientist Marc Lynch praised Rebel Music as "brilliant, utterly unique, effortlessly transnational."
Hisham Aidi's received his PhD in political science from Columbia University, and has taught at Columbia's School of International and Public Affairs, and at the Driskell Center for the Study of the African Diaspora at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of Redeploying the State (Palgrave 2008) a comparative study of privatization and labor movements in Latin America and the Arab world. As a journalist, he has written for various outlets. From 1999-2003, he worked as a cultural reporter, covering Harlem and the Bronx, for Africana.com, The New African, ColorLines, and Socialism and Democracy. More recently, his work has appeared in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Al Jazeera and Salon. Since 2007, he has been a contributing editor of Souls: A Critical Journal of Black Culture, Politics and Society.
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