Leading political theorist on the modern Arab politics and intellectual history and Columbia University Professor Joseph Massad is the guest of the third program of the seminar series “A Common Horizon for Humanity and the Planet”, which will be broadcasted live on the Cappadocia University YouTube channel on Monday, December 6 at 17:00, Turkish time. Professor Massad has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He is the author of “Desiring Arabs (2007)”, “The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006)”, “Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001)” and “Islam in Liberalism” (2015)
The conversation will be on the topic of “Independence: The Ruse of Settler-Colonialism”. The program will be moderated by Professor Cemil Aydın, Professor of the University of North Carolina.
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Professor at the Columbia University
Professor Joseph Massad is a Professor at the Columbia University. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of New Mexico and his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1998. He teaches and writes about modern Arab politics and intellectual history. He has a particular interest in theories of identity and culture – including theories of nationalism, sexuality, race and religion. He is the author of Desiring Arabs (2007), which was awarded the Lionel Trilling Book Award; The Persistence of the Palestinian Question: Essays on Zionism and the Palestinian Question (2006); and Colonial Effects: The Making of National Identity in Jordan (2001). His latest book is “Islam in Liberalism” (2015) was translated to Arabic under the title Al-Islam fi al-Libraliyyah, in 2018. Professor Massad has published in many academic journals and has received several international awards.
Professor at University of North Carolina
Prof. Cemil AYDIN is a Professor in the History Department of University of North Carolina. He completed his undergraduate studies at Boğaziçi University in 1991 and his PhD at Harvard University in 2002. Aydın interests focus is on both Modern Middle Eastern History and Modern Asian history, with an emphasis on the international and intellectual histories of the Ottoman and Japanese Empires.
