Nadia Yaqub
Professor of Arab Cultures, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Fellow 2026–27
- Current Project
- Alternative Cinema in the Arab World
- Project Discipline
- Middle East Studies
- Fellowship Title
- Research Triangle Foundation Fellowship
About Fellow
Nadia Yaqub’s research has treated Arab cultural texts ranging from medieval literature and contemporary oral poetry to modern prose fiction and visual culture. Her recent publications include Bad Girls of the Arab World (University of Texas Press 2017), a volume of essays coedited with Rula Quawas; Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution (University of Texas Press, 2018), a monograph about Palestinian cinema of the long 1970s; and Gaza on Screen (Duke University Press, 2023), an edited volume about film and media from and about the Gaza Strip. At the National Humanities Center she will be working on a monograph about Arab cinema of the 1970s and 1980s.
Selected Publications
- Yaqub, Nadia. “Palestinian Literature and Film.” Chapter in Routledge Handbook on Palestine edited by Michael Dumper and Amneh Badran. London: Routledge, 2024.
- Yaqub, Nadia. Gaza on Screen. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2023.
- Yaqub, Nadia. “Catastrophe and Post-Catastrophe in the films of Kamal Aljafari.” Chapter in Histories of Arab Documentaries edited by Viola Shafiq. Cairo: American University in Cairo Press, 2022.
- Yaqub, Nadia. “The City in Early Arab Alternative Cinema,” Telos, 197, 2021, 57–78.
- Yaqub, Nadia. Palestinian Cinema in the Days of Revolution Austin, TX: University of Texas Press, 2018.