Outputs (9)

Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms (2022)
Journal Article
Anderson, B., Awal, A., Cockayne, D., Greenhough, B., Linz, J., Mazumdar, A., Nassar, A., Pettit, H., Roe, E. J., Ruez, D., Salas Landa, M., Secor, A., & Williams, A. (2023). Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms. The Geographical Journal, 189(1), 143-160. https://doi.org/10.1111/geoj.12493

Part 2 of Encountering Berlant amplifies the promise of Lauren Berlant's influential concept of ‘cruel optimism’. Cruel optimism names a double-bind in which attachment to an ‘object’ holds out the promise of sustaining/flourishing, whilst simultaneo... Read More about Encountering Berlant part two: Cruel and other optimisms.

Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo (2021)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2021). Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo. Geohumanities, 7(2), 455-463. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566x.2021.1913436

In this paper, I perform an approach for a material and affective geography of the postcolonial city that is developed from within the spaces of Cairo and its archives. I propose storytelling the city through its geopoetics, where geopoetics emphasiz... Read More about Geopoetics as Disruptive Aesthetics: Vignettes from Cairo.

To stand by the ruins of a revolutionary city (2020)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2020). To stand by the ruins of a revolutionary city. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 52(3), 510-515. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0020743820000689

Losing Ground: A Collection of HOles (2020)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Nassar, A. (2020). Losing Ground: A Collection of HOles. Emotion, Space and Society, 36, Article 100677. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2020.100677

Spon End: A Local Guide (2019)
Book
Nieuwenhuis, M., Nassar, A., & Leach, C. (2019). Spon End: A Local Guide. Independent Publishing Network

Endurance in the city victorious (Book review forum: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South) (2019)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2020). Endurance in the city victorious (Book review forum: Improvised Lives: Rhythms of Endurance in an Urban South). Dialogues in Human Geography, 10(1), 78-80. https://doi.org/10.1177/2043820619895888

Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin (2019)
Journal Article
Perlin, J., Nieuwenhuis, M., & Nassar, A. (2019). Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin. Emotion, Space and Society, 33, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2019.100596

The Long Sleepers, also exhibited in part at Simon Preston Gallery, New York (2017), is a long-term artistic project involving 16 mm film, video, performance, and drawings. The current iteration tracks downwards through a sinkhole to discover a caver... Read More about Feeling (y)our way in the dark: An interview with Jenny Perlin.

Staging the State: Commemoration, Urban Space and the National Symbolic Order in 1970s Cairo (2019)
Journal Article
Nassar, A. (2019). Staging the State: Commemoration, Urban Space and the National Symbolic Order in 1970s Cairo. Middle East Critique, 28(3), https://doi.org/10.1080/19436149.2019.1633747

Dust: perfect circularity (2017)
Journal Article
Nieuwenhuis, M., & Nassar, A. (2018). Dust: perfect circularity. Cultural Geographies, 25(3), 501-507. https://doi.org/10.1177/1474474017747252