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Fadi A Bardawil

Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
John Hope Franklin Center Room, 2204 Erwin Road, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications


Dwelling as resistance, dwelling as repair

Journal Article American Ethnologist · May 1, 2023 Full text Cite

Moving Past Models

Journal Article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · August 1, 2022 Full text Cite

Césaire with adorno: Critical theory and the colonial problem

Journal Article South Atlantic Quarterly · October 1, 2018 Full text Cite

Sidelining Ideology: Arab Theory in the Metropole and Periphery, circa 1977

Chapter · January 1, 2018 Revisiting Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age, a little more than two decades after its publication, Albert Hourani made a series of observations regarding the book’s context of inception in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well as on the alternative dire ... Full text Cite

Dreams of a dual birth: Socialist Lebanon's world and ours

Journal Article Boundary 2 · August 1, 2016 Full text Cite

The solitary analyst of doxas: An interview with Talal Asad

Journal Article Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East · January 1, 2016 “The Solitary Analyst of Doxas: An Interview with Talal Asad” explores Asad's intellectual trajectory. In Bardawil and Asad's intergenerational conversation Asad discusses his critique of the neutrality of the social sciences, his own critique of Orientali ... Full text Cite