Politics

On Cinema, Literature and Neoliberalism in Tunisia and Morocco

We speak with Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed about art and political economy. Mohamed Wajdi Ben Hammed is a PhD candidate in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. He works on modern Arabic literature and thought with a focus on literary engagement with postcolonial transformations in the political economy of the region, and interactions with pre-modern Islamic concepts of time such as those found in philosophical Sufism to negotiate these transformations. His work has appeared in such journals as Middle East CritiqueArab Studies Journal, and the Journal of North African Studies (forthcoming).

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On Living With Robots

We speak with Maggie Jackson about technology. Maggie Jackson is the author of “Distracted: Reclaiming Our Focus in a World of Lost Attention and a contributor to the anthology “Living with Robots: Emerging Issues on the Psychological and Social Implications of Robots.”

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On Marine Le Pen and Performing Gender

We talk with Dorit Geva about the far-right in France. Dorit Geva is a political sociologist and Dean of Undergraduate Studies at Central European University, where she is overseeing CEU’s new BA programs in Vienna. Since 2013 she has been studying the populist radical-right in Europe. She has also written on the gender politics of military service, including her book, Conscription, Family, and the Modern State: A Comparative Study of France and the United States (2013).

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