Africa

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 Decolonization and Art

We speak with Greer Valley about why decolonization needs to be more than a metaphor. Greer Valley is a South African visual artist. You can find her work here.

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