Authors

Nadya Sbaiti

Nadya Sbaiti is Assistant Professor at the Center for Arab and Middle Eastern Studies (CAMES) at the American University Beirut (AUB).  She is a co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.

ARTICLES BY Nadya Sbaiti

  • Archive as Sensorium: 2021 in 1940 and 1940 in 2021

    Archive as Sensorium: 2021 in 1940 and 1940 in 2021

    I came across this letter while conducting archival work for my dissertation, in the archive of the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, at the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes. It was one of millions of documents that comprise France’s extensive repository of materials pertaining to th..

  • “Beirut Photographer”: An Ode to Memory

    “Beirut Photographer”: An Ode to Memory

    What does it mean to bear witness to events? What responsibility does the act of witnessing carry? These are the central questions evoked by George Azar and Mariam Shahin’s documentary film “Beirut Photograph..

  • What's in a City? (Part 2)

    What's in a City? (Part 2)

    (see Part 1)
    Last summer, a friend (under some coercion… not from me) gave me a valuable gift – a 1954 Guide to World Travel issued by Pan Am airlines. In the section on Lebanon, it listed the a..

  • What's in a City? (Part 1)

    What's in a City? (Part 1)

    One night a few months ago, while spending some time in Beirut, I needed to get from the Sinn al-Fil neighborhood to that of Ras Beirut, and called a taxi to pick me up. After driving around for twenty minutes, it became clear that the cab driver had no idea how to..