Nadia Yaqub
Senior Humanities Research Fellow
Education: BA University of California, Berkeley; MJ University of California, Berkeley; MA University of California, Berkeley; PhD University of California, Berkeley
Research Areas: Arab World; Film, literature, and photography, Visual Culture, Gender
About Nadia
Nadia Yaqub is the author of Pens, Swords, and the Springs of Art: the Oral Poetry Dueling of Weddings in the Galilee (Brill, 2006), Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), and numerous articles and book chapters about Arab film and literature. She is also co-editor with Rula Quawas of Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press, 2017). Her current research projects include an edited volume about visual representations of the Gaza Strip titled “Gaza On Screen.” At NYU Abu Dhabi she will be researching and writing engaged Arab cinema of the 1970s and 1980s with a focus on transnational connections and regional initiatives during that period.
Publications
Books
Yaqub, Nadia. Gaza on Screen. Duke University Press, 2023.
Yaqub, Nadia. Palestinian cinema in the days of revolution. University of Texas Press, 2018.
Journals
Yaqub, Nadia. “The City in Early Arab Alternative Cinema.” Telos 197 (2021): 57-78.
Yaqub, Nadia. "The Afterlives of Violent Images: Reading Photographs from the Tal al-Zaʿtar Refugee Camp on Facebook." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 8, no. 2-3 (2015): 327-354.
Yaqub, Nadia. "Refracted Filmmaking in Muhammad Malas’s The Dream and Kamal Aljafari’s The Roof." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 7, no. 2 (2014): 152-168.
Book Chapters
Yaqub, Nadia. “Catastrophe and Post-catastrophe in the Films of Kamal Aljafari.” In Documentary Filmmaking in the Middle East and North Africa, ed. Viola Shafiq. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022.
Yaqub, Nadia. "Toward a Palestinian Third Cinema." In Wounded Galaxies, ed. Joan Hawkins and Chris Dumas (forthcoming).
Yaqub, Nadia. "Palestinian Literature and Film." In Routledge Handbook on Palestine. Routledge (forthcoming).
Yaqub, Nadia. “Narrating the Nakba: Palestinian Filmmakers Revisit 1948.” In Narrating Conflict in the Middle East: Discourse, Image and Communications Practices in Palestine and Lebanon, eds. Dina Matar and Zahera Harb, 225-247. London: I. B. Tauris. 2013.
Yaqub, Nadia. "Azza El-Hassan and Impossible Filmmaking in Israel/Palestine." In Resistance in Contemporary Middle Eastern Cultures: Literature, Cinema and Music (Vol. 44), eds. Karima Laachir and Saeed Talajooy, 165-178. Routledge, 2012.
Yaqub, Nadia. "Dismantling the discourses of war: Palestinian women filmmakers address violence." In Gender and Violence in the Middle East, eds. Moha Ennaji and Fatima Sadiqi, 249-264. Routledge, 2011.
Webinar
“Defining Alternative Arab Cinema of the 1970s and 1980s”
