Arabic: Film, media, rhetoric, literature and politics
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Associate Professor and head of the Arabic program at George Mason University. A comparatist by training with interests in contemporary cultural productions, politics and theory, his books include How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt (Edinburgh University Press 2019), Islamists of the Maghreb (co/author Routledge 2018) and The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967) (Lexington 2014), winner of the American Comparative Literature Association's Helen Tartar Award. Outside Mason, Greenberg serves as chair of the Translation/Publication Committee for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies and book review editor for the Journal of Arabic Literature. Prof Greenberg's research and training have been supported by grants from the US Department of Education, the Department of State, MITRE, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Mathy Foundation. He is presently pursuing several lines of inquiry into the confluence of technology, ideology and power in the modern Middle East and North Africa.
New Media/Social Media
Misinformation/Disinformation
The battle for Libya
The Algerian uprising
New Arab cinema
Books
How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: The Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt, Edinburgh University Press. 2019.
Islamists of the Maghreb (Jefrry R. Halverson co-author). London, U.K.: Routledge. 2018.
The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (1952-1967), Lanham M.D: Lexington Books. 2014. reviews: SOAS, IJMES
Selected Essays
"Islamic State War Documentaries." The International Journal of Communication. 2020. Read: here
"Egypt's Post-2011 Embrace of Russian's Style Disinformation." The Middle East Report (MERIP). 2019. Read: here
"Russia Opens Digital Interference Front in Libya." The Middle East Report Online. 4 Oct 2019. Read: here
"The Gates of Tripoli: Power and Propaganda in Postrevolutionary Libya." The African Yearbook of Rhetoric. 9. 2019. Read: here
"Russian Influence Operations Extend into Egypt." The Conversation. 12 Feb 2019. Read: here.
"Notes on the Arab Boom: Stasis and Dynamism in the Post-revolutionary Arabic Novel." Studies in the Novel. 51.2. 2019. Read: here.
"Ahmed Khaled Towfik: Days of Rage and Horror in Arabic Science Fiction." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction. 57.2. 2018. Read: here.
"Mythical State: The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria." The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. 10.2-3. 2017. Read: here.
Translations
"The Secret Organization" (1982), by Naguib Mahfouz. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. 58. 2017.
Ph.D., Comparative Literature (2012) The University of Washington
M.A., Comparative Literature (2009) The University of Washington
C.E.L.TA., Certificate in English Language Teaching to Adults, Campbell College, Valencia, Spain.
B.A., Comparative Literature (2003) The City University of New York- Hunter College
"The Role of Media in the Libyan Revolution" (2021). 10 Year Anniversary. The National Council on U.S.-Libya Relations.
"Dissent, History and Politics in the Modern Middle East: Tunisia's Cyber-dissidents revisited." (2021). Modern Language Association.
"The Gates of Tripoli: power and propaganda in post-revolutionary Libya" (2020). Middle East Studies Association.
"The Social Media Wars in Libya Revisited" (2019). The National Council on U.S.-Libya Relations. Rayburn House, U.S. Capitol. Washington D.C.
"Information Warfare and the Struggle for Democracy: WikiLeaks and the Arab Spring Revisited" (2019). Media in Transition. M.I.T., Cambridge, MA.
"The Social Media Wars in Libya" (2018). The National Council on U.S.-Libya Relations. Rayburn House, U.S. Capitol. Washington D.C.