Core Faculty

Joel Gordon (Ph.D., Michigan) teaches and writes on modern Middle East history and memory, politics and culture, film, music and media, and religion. He is a two-time Fulbright scholar, and has also been awarded fellowships from the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Center in Egypt (ARCE). Joel currently serves as book review editor for the International Journal of Middle East Studies, and has served on the ARCE governing board.

Publications

Revolutionary Melodrama: Popular Film and Civic Identity in Nasser's Egypt (Chicago: 2002) Nasser's Blessed Movement: Egypt's Free Officers and the July Revolution (Oxford/New York: 1992, Cairo:1996)

Selected Publications

"Nasser 56/Cairo 96: Reimaging Egypt's Lost Community," in Walter Armbrust, Mass Mediations: New Approaches to Popular Culture in the Middle East and Beyond, Walter Armbrust, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: 2000), 161-81 and reprinted in Albert Hourani, Philip Khoury, and Mary C. Wilson, The Modern Middle East, revised edition (New York 2004) "Days of Anxiety/Days of Sadat: Impersonating Egypt's Flawed Hero on the Egyptian Screen," Journal of Film and Video 54/2-3 (2002), 27-42 "The Nightingale and the Ra'is: 'Abd al-Halim Hafiz and Nasserist Longings," in Elie Podeh and Onn Winckler, Rethinking Nasserism: Revolution and Historical Memory in Modern Egypt (Gainesville 2004), 307-23 "Singing the Pulse of the Egyptian-Arab Street: Shaaban Abd al-Rahim and the Geo-pop Politics of Fast Food," Popular Music 22/1 (2003), 75-90 "Golden Boy turns Bete Noire: Crossing Boundaries of Unscripted Television in Egypt," Journal of Middle Eastern and North African Intellectual and Cultural Studies 1 (2001), 1-18 "Class-crossed Lovers: Popular Film and Social Change in Nasser's New Egypt," Quarterly Review of Film and Television 18 (4) Fall 2001, 385-396 "With God on Our Side: Scripting Nasser's Free Officer Mutiny," in Jane Hathaway, Rebellion, Repression, Reinvention: Mutiny in Comparative Perspective, (New York: 2001), 253-72 "Becoming the Image: Words of Gold, Talk Television, and Ramadan Nights on the Little Screen," Visual Anthropology 10 (1997), 247-63 "Film, Fame, and Public Memory: Egyptian Biopics from Mustafa Kamil to Nasser 56," International Journal of Middle East Studies 31 (1999), 61-79

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