Many reasons: pain, elegy, rage, squandered decolonial horizons within the “Arab Spring,” the “Black Spring” rebellion of 2020, and Indigenous resurgence during the Idle No More (INM) / #NoDAPL events, but also language, land, power, and the politics of (mis)translat..
Mohamed Abdou
Mohamed Abdou is a Cornell University Postdoctoral Fellow at The Einaudi Center’s Racial Justice Program. He is also an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo and is an interdisciplinary scholar of Indigenous, Black, critical race, and Islamic studies, as well as gender, sexuality, and women’s studies, and decolonization, with extensive fieldwork experience in the Middle East and North Africa and Turtle Island. He is a self-identifying migrant settler of color living on Gayogo̱hó꞉nǫʼ, Anishinaabe-Haudenosaunee territory. He is author of Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances (Pluto Press, 2022).