Explores the intersection of sport history and film and how feature movies, documentaries, shorts, and newsreels can be used to study U.S. history as well as global history. Among the subjects examined are sport and early filmmaking; global issues of race, class, ethnicity, gender, doping, and identi...
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor of Arabic in the Department of Modern and Classical Languages at George Mason University. Focusing on the intersection of literature, media, and politics in the modern Middle East and North Africa, Greenberg is the author of several books including most r...
Dr. Amireh received a BA in English literature from Birzeit University in the West Bank and an MA and a PhD in English and American literature from Boston University. Before joining George Mason University, Amireh taught at An-Najah National University and Birzeit University (both in West Bank/Palest...
Hatim El-Hibri is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His research and teaching interests focus on global and transnational media studies, visual culture studies, Lebanon and the Middle East, urban studies, television studies, and media theory and history. His first book, Visions of Bei...
Bassam Haddad is the Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University...
Kandahar Journals, by Louie Palu and Devin Gallagher (2015) On Monday, 22 February at 7:30pm JCC Free screening and Q&A with Louie Palu Kandahar Journals follows photojournalist Louie Palu's experience while covering the war in Kandahar from 2006 to 2010 and then, its aftermath. With a nar...
Middle East Media and Screen CulturesThis course introduces key concepts in the study of film and media from the Middle East, and examines the cultural and political contexts that have given shape to a range of historical and contemporary voices. Rather than a comprehensive survey of the varied cultu...
Spring 2023 Core Courses for the Minor GOVT 332: Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Elective Course Options for the Minor* ARAB 325: Major Arabic Writers ARAB 331: Reading and Conversation II ARTH 333: Early Christian and Byzantine Art CONF 340: Global Conflict A...
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Spring 2022 Core Courses for the Minor HIST 282 - Survey of Middle Eastern Civilization GOVT 332 – Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa Elective Course Options for the Minor* ANTH 308 - Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East ARAB 325 – Major Arabic Writers ARAB 33...
