Nadia Abu El-Haj

Apr 27, 2024 | nybooks.com | Max Nelson |Nadia Abu El-Haj

On December 24, 2023, the NYR Online published an essay by Nadia Abu El-Haj about the crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech at Columbia University and Barnard College, where she holds the Ann Whitney Olin professorship in the anthropology department and codirects the Center for Palestine Studies.

Dec 24, 2023 | newsbreak.com | Nadia Abu El-Haj

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Dec 24, 2023 | nybooks.com | Nadia Abu El-Haj

Administrators at Columbia and other US universities have been cracking down on student protest against the war in Gaza—even as right-wing politicians demand they go further.

Oct 30, 2023 | mondoweiss.net | Nadia Abu El-Haj

October 28, 2023Dear President Rosenbury,Disheartening—that would be a serious understatement as a description of my response to your most recent email. You could not have made more apparent who you consider to be valued members of the Barnard community, and who you are willing to sacrifice. I don’t know if the language you chose was designed to address the concerns of donors (even directly dictated by a few, perhaps?) or if it represents your own sincere ideological commitments and biases.

Aug 15, 2023 | proteanmag.com | Nadia Abu El-Haj

Nadia Abu El-Haj The following is excerpted with permission fromCombat Trauma: Imaginaries of War and Citizenship in post-9/11 America, by Nadia Abu El-Haj. Now available from Verso Books. ♦♦♦ On Sunday, August 15th, 2021, on the heels of rapid military victories throughout Afghanistan, the Taliban walked into Kabul. Afghan soldiers put down their arms. The president, Ashraf Ghani, fled.