Contributors

Roshan Abbas is a postgraduate student of history at Jamia Millia Islamia. His work engages postcolonial internationalism, Cold War historiography, and intellectual history—with a specific focus on Urdu progressivism and its international networks, with attention to literary politics, Cold War espionage, and the cultural afterlives of decolonization. He is currently working on the Sajjad Zaheer Digital Archive in collaboration with the University of Texas at Austin.Elizabeth Benninger is part-time faculty at the Gallatin School for Individualized Study at New York University.Elizabeth Bishop is dean of the College of International Studies at the American University of Iraq-Baghdad. Recently, she contributed a chapter to Kristin Roth-Ey's edited volume Socialist Internationalism and the Gritty Politics of the Particular: Second-Third World Spaces in the Cold War (2023).Ziad Dallal is assistant professor of Arabic at Bard College. He has written about contemporary Arabic culture and has served as co-editor of Makhzin, a bilingual cultural magazine. Ziad's writing has appeared in Alif: Journal of Comparative Poetics, The Derivative, Review of Middle Eastern Studies, Bidayat, and the Journal of Arabic Literature.Stathis Gourgouris is professor of classics, English, and comparative literature and society at Columbia University. His most recent book is Nothing Sacred (2024).Hala Halim is an associate professor of comparative literature and Middle Eastern studies at New York University. Her book Alexandrian Cosmopolitanism: An Archive received an Honorable Mention for the Harry Levin Prize for First Book from the American Comparative Literature Association. Her current book manuscript centers on the Afro-Asian movement and its journal Lotus.Naeem Mohaiemen combines films, photography, drawings, and essays to research forms of utopia-dystopia and transnational collisions within families, borders, architecture, and uprisings. Art critic Murtaza Vali considers Dustin Hoffman in Marathon Man (1976) as “a hapless history student studying for a Ph.D., an erstwhile stand-in for Mohaiemen.” Naeem is co-editor with Eszter Szakacs of Solidarity Must Be Defended (2023) and author of Bengal Photography's Reality Quest (in Bengali) (2025), Midnight's Third Child (2023), and Prisoners of Shothik Itihash (2014). He is head of the photography concentration and director of undergraduate studies in the visual arts department, School of the Arts, Columbia University.Vijay Prashad is the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. His most recent book, with Noam Chomsky, is On Cuba.Haider Shahbaz is completing a PhD in comparative literature at UCLA. He is interested in South Asian and Black literatures, colonial and anticolonial thought, Marxism, and translation studies. His work has appeared or is forthcoming in Comparative Literature Studies, Modernism/modernity, Los Angeles Review of Books, Jadaliyya, Caravan, and elsewhere.Mahmoud Zidan is an associate professor at the University of Jordan. His research focuses on African American literature, contemporary American literature, postcolonial literature, and the question of Palestine.