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About Syed Taha Kaleem
Syed Taha Kaleem is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology at Brandeis University. He is also a graduate fellow at the Crown Center for Middle Eastern Studies, where his research examines the social life of oil in Doha and its entanglements with gender, race, sexuality, ethnicity, and citizenship. His work investigates how Qatar’s petro-economy not only shapes material infrastructures and economic hierarchies but also produces, regulates, and reconfigures gendered subjectivities. By tracing the ways oil-funded development projects, labor regimes, and social institutions mediate experiences of sexuality, he explores how state power, economic privilege, and cultural norms intersect in everyday life. Kaleem graduated cum-laude from Georgetown University Qatar. He has conducted ethnographic research in Qatar, Egypt, and Indian Administrated Kashmir.
NBN Episodes hosted by Syed:
August 10, 2025
Harvests of Liberation
Harvests of Liberation offers a critical reinterpretation of Egypt’s path to decolonization through the lens of its most important export crop: cotton…
June 19, 2025
Disorder and Diagnosis
Disorder and Diagnosis: Health and the Politics of Everyday Life in Modern Arabia (Stanford UP, 2024) offers a social and political history of medicin…
May 18, 2025
Showpiece City
Showpiece City: How Architecture Made Dubai (Stanford UP, 2020) by Todd Reisz is a critical historical account of Dubai’s transformation into a global…
March 14, 2025
Unruly Labor
Unruly Labor: A History of Oil in the Arabian Sea (Stanford UP, 2024) by Andrea Wright offers a critical and nuanced examination of the labor regimes …