Dr. Nadia Yaqub

Office Hours: T 9:45-10:45 & R 2:15-3:15, In-Person
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Research

My research has treated Arab cultural texts ranging from medieval literature and contemporary oral poetry to modern prose fiction and visual culture. My recent publications include Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press 2017), a volume of essays co-edited with Rula Quawas,  Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), a monograph about Palestinian cinema of the long 1970s, and Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023), an edited volume about film and media from and about the Gaza Strip.

Awards

NYU Abu Dhabi Senior Humanities Research Fellow 2021/22
Palestine Book Award Short List, June 2019
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Faculty Fellow (2004, 2016)
Institute for the Arts and Humanities Academic Leadership Fellow (2013)
Carolina Women's Center Faculty Scholar (2013)
American Council of Learned Societies/National Endowment for the Arts/Social Science Research Council Fellow (2009-10)
UNC James Moeser Award for Distinguished Research (2008)
Social Science Research Council Fellow (1995)
Center for Arabic Studies Abroad Fellow (1991-92)
Fulbright Fellow, 1986-87 (Syria), 1991-92 (Egypt)

Publications

Books

Gaza on Screen Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.

Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution, University of Texas Press, 2018.

Bad Girls of the Arab World, University of Texas Press (coedited with Rula Quawas).

Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: The Oral Poetry Dueling of Palestinian Weddings in the Galilee, Brill Academic Publishers, 2006.

Articles and Book Chapters

“Palestinian Literature and Film.” Chapter in Routledge Handbook on Palestine edited by Michael Dumper and Amneh Badran. London: Routledge. Forthcoming 2023.

“Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the films of Kamal Aljafari.” Chapter in Histories of Arab Documentaries edited by Viola Shafiq Cairo: American University in Cairo Press. 2022.

“The City in Early Arab Alternative Cinema,” Telos, 197, 2021, 57-78.

“Representation: Film: Palestine.” 2017. Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures Online, Supplement 15, Leiden: Brill. https://referenceworks.brillonline.com/entries/encyclopedia-of-women-and-islamic-cultures/representation-film-palestine-COM_002138

“Working with Grassroots Digital Humanities Projects: the Case of the Tal al-Za`tar Facebook Groups,” Digital Humanities and Islamic & Middle East Studies edited by Elias Muhanna. De Gruyter 2016, pp. 103-116.

“The Afterlives of Violent Images: Reading Photographs from the Tal al-Za`tar Refugee Camp on Facebook,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 8, 2/3, pp. 327-54, 2015.

“Refracted Filmmaking in Muhammad Malas’ The Dream and Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof,” Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. 2014.

“Narrating the Nakba: the Seventh Decade,” Narrating ‘conflict’:  Discourse, Spectacle, Commemoration and Communication Practices in Palestine and Lebanon. Eds.  Dina Matar and Zahera Harb. London: I B Taurus, 2013.

“Utopia and Dystopia in Palestinian Circular Journeys from Ghassan Kanafani to Contemporary Film,” Journal of Middle East Literatures, 15, 3. 2012.

“Azza Hassan and Impossible Filmmaking in Israel/Palestine,” Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music. Ed. Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy. London: Routledge, 2012.  

“Dismantling the Discourses of War: Palestinian Women Filmmakers Address Violence,” in Gender and Violence in the Middle East and North Africa, edited by Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi. Routledge, 2011, pp. 231-246.

“Paradise Now: Narrating a Failed Politics,” in Film and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Josef Gugler. University of Texas Press.  2010.

“The Dupes: Three Generations Uprooted and Betrayed,” in Film and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Josef Gugler. University of Texas Press. 2010.

“Waiting: A Scattered People Waiting for a Common Future,” in Film and Politics in the Middle East and North Africa. Ed. Josef Gugler. University of Texas Press. 2010.

“Gendering the Palestinian Political Cartoon,” Towards a Palestinian Cultural Studies, a special issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, 2, 2. 2009, pp. 187-213.

“Arts Under Occupation in the West Bank and Gaza Strip,” MIT Electronic Journal of Middle East Studies, Vol. 8, 2008.

“The Palestinian Cinematic Wedding,” JMEWS: Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies, 3,2, Spring 2007, pp. 56-85.

“The Production of Locality in the Oral Palestinian Poetry Duel,” Literature and Nation in the Middle East. Eds. Yasir Suleiman and Ibrahim Muhawi, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp. 16-30.

“Cities of Salt,” in Middle Eastern Literatures and Their Times = World Literature and Its Times, Volume 6, Detroit: Gale Group, 2004, pp. 75-84.

“The Tale of Those Who Did Not Travel:  Reading Yahya Tahir `Abdullah’s Al-Tawq wal-Aswarah as Sirah,” Journal of Arabic Literature. Vol. 36, 2, 2005, pp. 111-135. 

“Toward a Synchronic Analysis of the Meters of Palestinian Oral Poetry,” Al-Arabiyya, 2003, pp. 1-26.

“Some of Us Must Depart: An Intertextual Reading of a Mountain Poem by Ibn Khafajah,” Journal of Arabic Literature, Vol. 30, 3, 1999, 240-258.