Arabic: Film, media, rhetoric, literature and politics
Nathaniel Greenberg is an Assistant Professor and head of the Arabic program at George Mason University. His most recent book is: How Information Warfare Shaped the Arab Spring: the Politics of Narrative in Tunisia and Egypt (EUP 2019). Other works include The Aesthetic of Revolution in the Film and Literature of Naguib Mahfouz (Lexington 1952-1967), winner the 2014 ACLA Helen Tartar Award, and Islamists of the Maghreb (Routledge, 2018) which he co-authored with Jeffry R. Halverson. Greenberg's research addressing digital interference and strategic communications in the Middle East and North Africa has appeared in the Middle East Report (MERIP), The Conversation and Jadaliyya. Prior to joining Mason, Greenberg held positions as an Assistant Professor of Arabic and World Literature at Northern Michigan University and as a Postdoctoral Fellow in North African Studies with the Center for Strategic Communication at Arizona State University. He is book review editor for The Journal of Arabic Literature and presently serves as Chair of the Translation and Publication Committee for the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. At Mason, Prof. Greenberg teaches modern Arabic literature, film, translation and open-source media analysis. In 2015, he created the University's first BA Concentration in Arabic.
Information warfare in the Middle East and North Africa
The battle for Libya
The Algerian uprising
Egyptian media
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 (with Jefrry R. Halverson). 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
Essays
"Islamic State War Documentaries." The International Journal of Communication. Forthcoming.
"Russia Opens Digital Interference Front in Libya." The Middle East Report Online. 4 Oct 2019. Read: here
"Russian Influence Operations Extend into Egypt." The Conversation. 12 Feb 2019. Read: here.
"Deconstructing ISIS: Philippe-Joseph Salazar on the Aesthetics of Terror." Philosophy and Rhetoric. Forthcoming.
"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.
"Ideology as Narrative: The Mythic Discourse of Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb." The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication. 10. Co-written with Jeffry R. Halverson. 2017.
"The Politics of Perception in Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Cinema." Arabic Literature for the Classroom. Ed. Muhsin J. al-Musawi. Routledge. 2017.
"Naguib Mahfouz's Children of the Alley and the Coming Revolution." The Comparatist. 37. 2013. Read: here.
"Political Modernism, Jabra, and the Baghdad Modern Art Group." Comparative Literature and Culture. 12.2. 2010.
"War in Pieces: AMIA and the Triple Frontier in Argentine and American Discourse on Terrorism." A Contracorriente. 8.1. 2010. Read: here.
Translations
"The Secret Organization" (1982), by Naguib Mahfouz. Banipal: Magazine of Modern Arab Literature. 58. 2017.
The Mathy Junior Faculty Award in the Arts and Humanities, GMU (2018)
The U.S. Department of State (CLS Alumni Development Fund, 2016)
The National Endowment for Humanities (Summer Scholar Program, 2015)
MITRE / ONR (2012 / 2013)
Chester Fritz [and Boeing International] UW (Egypt, 2012)
The Modern Language Quarterly (Dissertation Fellowship, 2011)
The U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship (Morocco, 2010)
The U.S. Department of Education (FLAS, Egypt, 2007-08)
ARAB 250, Gateway to advanced Arabic
ARAB 390, Methods in Arabic translation
ARAB 350/351, Media Arabic
ARAB 325, Major Arabic Writers
ARAB 360, Arab Cinema
Ph.D., Comparative Literature (2012) The University of Washington
M.A., Comparative Literature (2009) The University of Washington
B.A., Comparative Literature (2003) The City University of New York- Hunter College
"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.
"Caliphate: On the Communicative Aesthetics of the Islamic State Group" (2018). Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication. UPENN. Annual Symposium: "Mediating the Islamic State."
"From Futuwwa to Baltagiyya: Populism in Post-Revolutionary Egyptian Cineam" (2018). MLA. NYC.
"Ahmed Khalid Tawfiq and the Speculative Turn in Modern Arabic Fiction" (2017). NEMLA. Baltimore, MD.
"Mythical State: The Aesthetics and Counter-Aesthetics of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria" (2016). Communication and Conflict. SOAS.