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About Alize Arıcan
NBN Episodes hosted by Alize:
Mobilities and Methods
March 10, 2021
Building Socialism
The Afterlife of East German Architecture in Urban Vietnam
Christina Schwenkel
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Following a decade of U.S. bombing campaigns that obliterated northern Vietnam, East Germany helped Vietnam rebuild in an act of socialist solidarity. In Building Socialism: The Afterlife of East German …
Mobilities and Methods
January 5, 2021
Coming Out to the Streets
LGBTQ Youth Experiencing Homelessness
Brandon Andrew Robinson
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) youth are disproportionately represented in the U.S. youth homelessness population. In Coming Out to the Streets, Brandon Andrew Robinson examines their lives.Based on …
Mobilities and Methods
November 18, 2020
Beyond Exception
New Interpretations of the Arabian Peninsula
Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Over the nearly two decades that they have each been conducting fieldwork in the Arabian Peninsula, Ahmed Kanna, Amélie Le Renard, and Neha Vora have regularly encountered exoticizing and exceptionalist …
Middle Eastern Studies
November 6, 2020
Return to Ruin
Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia
Zainab Saleh
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
With the U.S. invasion of Iraq, Iraqis abroad, hoping to return one day to a better Iraq, became uncertain exiles. Return to Ruin: Iraqi Narratives of Exile and Nostalgia (Stanford …
African American Studies
November 4, 2020
Black in Place
The Spatial Aesthetics of Race in a Post-Chocolate City
Brandi Thompson Summers
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
While Washington, D.C., is still often referred to as “Chocolate City,” it has undergone significant demographic, political, and economic change in the last decade. In D.C., no place represents this …
American Studies
October 23, 2020
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
Sara Luna
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Sex, drugs, religion, and love are potent combinations in la zona, a regulated prostitution zone in the city of Reynosa, across the border from Hidalgo, Texas. During the years 200 …
Middle Eastern Studies
September 28, 2020
Street Sounds
Listening to Everyday Life in Modern Egypt
Ziad Fahmy
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
As the twentieth century roared on, transformative technologies—from trains, trams, and automobiles to radios and loudspeakers—fundamentally changed the sounds of the Egyptian streets. The cacophony of everyday life grew louder …
Mobilities and Methods
August 17, 2020
Disruptive Situations
Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut
Ghassan Moussawi
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
Disruptive Situations: Fractal Orientalism and Queer Strategies in Beirut (Temple UP, 2020) challenges representations of contemporary Beirut as an exceptional space for LGBTQ people by highlighting everyday life in a …
African Studies
August 10, 2020
The Fixer
Visa Lottery Chronicles
Charles Piot
Hosted by Alize Arıcan
In the West African nation of Togo, applying for the U.S. Diversity Visa Lottery is a national obsession, with hundreds of thousands of Togolese entering each year. From the street …