Nadine Naber

Nadine Naber is professor of gender and women’s studies and global Asian studies, and interim director of the Institute for Research on Race and Public Policy at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She is the author and/or co-editor of five books, including Arab America: Gender, Cultural Politics, and Activism (NYU Press, 2012) and Color of Violence (Duke University Press, 2016). She is a TEDx speaker, board member of the Arab American Action Network, co-founder of Mamas Activating Movements for Abolition and Solidarity, founder of Liberate Your Research, founder of the Arab American Cultural Center, and co-founder of the Arab and Muslim American Studies Program (University of Michigan). Nadine is a Public Voices fellow, columnist for the Chicago Reporter, recipient of the American Studies Association Carl Bode-Norman Holmes Pearson Lifetime Achievement Prize and the YWCA's Y-Women's Leadership Award.

Seven Lessons the US Left Can Learn From Egypt to Resist Post-Election Fascism

TRUTHOUT—Leftists across the nation are terrified about the aftermath of the U.S. election. Whether Donald Trump wins or loses, many are deeply anxious about the possibility of far right white supremacist violence. If Joe Biden wins, many worry he will betray the demands of the Movement for Black Lives and return us to a status quo that disregards the lives of Black people, people of color, immigrants, Indigenous people, working-class people, women, queer and transgender people, and people with disabilities.

Anti-Black Racism In SWANA + Diaspora

This is an excerpt. To watch the full video, please follow this link. https://nadinenaber.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Anti-Black-Racism-in-SWANA-Diaspora.mp4 This project is co-sponsored by AGITATE!, Arab American Cultural Center, New Arab American Theater Works, Arab American Action Network, US Palestinian Community Network, Mamas, the Gender & Sexuality Page of Jadaliyya, and RAWI (Radius of Arab American Writers).

Radical Mothering for Abolitionist Futures Post-COVID-19

abolition journal.org—The initial effects of COVID-19 coupled with the current uprisings against police violence have torn us from our common sense of normalcy. This sudden shift in the toxic state of living under the violence of racial capitalism, white supremacy, and settler colonialism affords us the opportunity to uplift centuries of communal wisdom that abound all around us. The current pandemic made it increasingly apparent that capitalism, not simply COVID-19, is the disaster.