Waleed F Mahdi
Biographic Data
| ID | 5684991 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Waleed F Mahdi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Waleed F |
| FAMILY NAME | Mahdi |
| SIGNATURE | MAHDI W F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oklahoma |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2547-3659 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Agency Between Urgency and Emergence
This essay examines the formation of contemporary Yemeni American agency at the interplay of economics, politics, and arts. The context of my analysis draws from the unfolding events and policies following the tragic attacks of 9/11 (2001) in the United States and the revolutionary fervor of the Arab Spring in Yemen (2011). The various economic, political, and cultural forms of agency explored in this work constitute responses to US policing of Y…
Mena Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media
Guest editor Waleed F. Mahdi's foreword for the special issue "MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media
Transmilitainment
This essay examines Morocco's role in the production of Hollywood's "war on terror" films over the period 2000–2020. Rules of Engagement (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Green Zone (2010), American Sniper (2014), and The Yellow Birds (2017) are examples of a Hollywood trend of shot-in-Morocco films mediating US culture of militarized entertainment (militainment). The essay introduces the neologism transmilitainment as an analytic frame to make sen…
Arab Americans in Film
The aesthetics of dissent
Our special issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at a crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. The issue presents a unique attempt to investigate these forms of cultural production as new modes of…
Immigrant Narratives
Important studies on Arab American identity and anti-Arab sentiment have proliferated since 9/11. The trend has invited many scholars in the field of Arab American studies to locate the roots of Arab American experience in US Orientalist yearnings that render them as the racialized, gendered, and sexualized “other.” This conceptualization of Arab Americans relies on a sociocultural framework that positions them as a minority wrestling with assimi…
Post-Oriental Otherness
How do filmmakers in the United States play a role in perpetuating narratives of belonging to the American culture? What is the marking line between Orientalist and post-Orientalist articulations of Arabness? In what ways have the transnational configurations of geopolitics affected the image formations of Arab Americans in Hollywood? This article emerges at the intersection of those inquiries, and provides a historical account of Hollywood’s rep…
The aesthetics of dissent
Our special issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at a crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. The issue presents a unique attempt to investigate these forms of cultural production as new modes of…
Post-Oriental Otherness
How do filmmakers in the United States play a role in perpetuating narratives of belonging to the American culture? What is the marking line between Orientalist and post-Orientalist articulations of Arabness? In what ways have the transnational configurations of geopolitics affected the image formations of Arab Americans in Hollywood? This article emerges at the intersection of those inquiries, and provides a historical account of Hollywood’s rep…
Immigrant Narratives
Important studies on Arab American identity and anti-Arab sentiment have proliferated since 9/11. The trend has invited many scholars in the field of Arab American studies to locate the roots of Arab American experience in US Orientalist yearnings that render them as the racialized, gendered, and sexualized “other.” This conceptualization of Arab Americans relies on a sociocultural framework that positions them as a minority wrestling with assimi…
The aesthetics of dissent
Our special issue captures the interplay of media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs’ search for more stable governing models at a crossroads of global, regional, and national challenges through systematic and integrated analyses of evolving and contested Arab visual and performing arts in revolutionary and unstable public spheres. The issue presents a unique attempt to investigate these forms of cultural production as new modes of…
Arab Americans in Film
Transmilitainment
This essay examines Morocco's role in the production of Hollywood's "war on terror" films over the period 2000–2020. Rules of Engagement (2000), Black Hawk Down (2001), Green Zone (2010), American Sniper (2014), and The Yellow Birds (2017) are examples of a Hollywood trend of shot-in-Morocco films mediating US culture of militarized entertainment (militainment). The essay introduces the neologism transmilitainment as an analytic frame to make sen…
Mena Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media
Guest editor Waleed F. Mahdi's foreword for the special issue "MENA Migrants and Diasporas in Twenty-First-Century Media
Contemporary Modes of Yemeni American Agency Between Urgency and Emergence
This essay examines the formation of contemporary Yemeni American agency at the interplay of economics, politics, and arts. The context of my analysis draws from the unfolding events and policies following the tragic attacks of 9/11 (2001) in the United States and the revolutionary fervor of the Arab Spring in Yemen (2011). The various economic, political, and cultural forms of agency explored in this work constitute responses to US policing of Y…
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