This roundtable delves into several different topics regarding the mutual interrelationship between COVID-19 and social mobilization: Algeria (Muriam Haleh Davis and Thomas Serres), Iraq (Zahra Ali), Lebanon (Nadim El Kak), higher education in the US (Anthony Alessandrini, Kylie Broderick, and t..
Anthony Alessandrini, Zahra Ali, Kylie Broderick, Juan Doe, Nadim El Kak, Rhea Rahman, and Ghiwa Sayegh
Anthony Alessandrini teaches English and Middle Eastern Studies at the City University of New York, and is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya E-Zine.
زهراء علي عالمة اجتماع وأستاذة مساعدة في جامعة روتجرز - نيوارك. تقوم أبحاثها باستكشاف ديناميكيات المرأة والجندر والحركات الاجتماعية والسياسية فيما يتعلق بالإسلام (الإسلامات) والشرق الأوسط وسياقات الحرب والصراع، مع التركيز على العراق المعاصر.
Zahra Ali is a sociologist and Assistant Professor of Sociology at Rutgers University, her research explores dynamics of women and gender, social and political movements in relation to Islam(s) and the Middle East and contexts of war and conflicts with a focus on contemporary Iraq. Her book Women and Gender in Iraq: between Nation-building and Fragmentation published by Cambridge University Press in 2018, is a sociology of Iraqi women’s social, political activism and feminisms based on an in-depth ethnography of Iraqi women’s rights organizations and a social history of Iraqi women’s social, economic and political experiences since the formation of the Iraqi state.
Kylie Broderick is the Managing Editor of Jadaliyya and a history Ph.D. student at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Juan Doe is a Latinx health professional student and member of the Do No Harm Coalition in the Bay Area. He works with victims and family members affected by police violence.
Nadim El Kak is a Researcher at the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) and a Graduate Fellow at the American University of Beirut's Sociology program.
Rhea Rahman is an assistant professor of anthropology. Her research and teaching focus on transnational practices of racialization and forefronts the question: how is human difference used for justifying systems of inequality and oppression, and how might we instead engage difference with an eye towards liberation? Rahman is currently working on a manuscript that frames international Muslim volunteerism, humanitarianism, and development through intersecting logics of global white supremacy, anti-Muslim racism, and anti-blackness.
Ghiwa Sayegh is a queer feminist writer, publisher, and archivist based in Beirut, Lebanon. She is the founding editor in chief of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, and the co-founder of Intersectional Knowledge Publishers. Ghiwa is passionate about the intersections of sex and sexuality, migration, global economies, and feminist histories.