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About Najwa Mayer
Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary cultural scholar of race, gender, Islam, and US empire, working at the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical theory. She is currently a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University.
Najwa Mayer is an interdisciplinary cultural scholar of race, gender, Islam, and US empire, working at the intersections of politics, aesthetics, and critical theory. She is currently a Society of Fellows Postdoctoral Scholar at Boston University.
NBN Episodes hosted by Najwa:
April 12, 2025
The Promise of Beauty
In The Promise of Beauty (Duke UP, 2024), Mimi Thi Nguyen explores the relationship between the concept of beauty and narratives of crisis and catastr…
May 5, 2024
Terracene
In Terracene: A Crude Aesthetics (Duke UP, 2023), Salar Mameni historicizes the popularization of the scientific notion of the Anthropocene alongside …
January 31, 2024
Medina by the Bay
From the Black Power movement and state surveillance to Silicon Valley and gentrification, Medina by the Bay: Scenes of Muslim Study and Survival (Duk…
August 11, 2023
Possible Histories
Many of the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who immigrated to the US beginning in the 1870s worked as peddlers. Men were able to transgress Syrian no…