@simongandrew.bsky.social
Historian of media, pop culture, and the Middle East; senior lecturer @dartmouth; author of "Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt"; founder of “Ideas to Ink”; andrewgsimon.com
A new article I can’t wait to read!
10.11.2025 16:36 — 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Hello, Sharjah.
05.11.2025 20:52 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Reviews in academic journals are great, but to be read by writers across the Arab world is truly a gift. www.alaraby.co.uk/culture/%D8%...
05.11.2025 13:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cairo friends, this book discussion looks brilliant!
04.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Well this post made my day : )
02.11.2025 05:25 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
One of the many times I wish I could travel with the Arabic edition of “Media of the Masses,” which is now available in Algeria.
01.11.2025 12:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0😍
30.10.2025 20:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Out next April!
30.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Out next April!
30.10.2025 13:36 — 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
A conference call concerning media in the global south that is perhaps of interest! www.qatar.northwestern.edu/research/ias...
27.10.2025 15:46 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What a treat to share my latest work on family planning at this conference in Cairo. I can’t recall such a generative and generous Q&A. I only wish I could’ve been there in person, back on the campus where I was a fellow during the 2011 Revolution.
26.10.2025 14:33 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just landed in Toronto and did what anyone would do. Immediately went to a Syrian restaurant. Also, they have a cassette player?!
23.10.2025 19:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Grateful for this engagement! m.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyb...
23.10.2025 14:39 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Cairo friends, this exciting event, featuring Fayrouz Karawya, will be taking place tomorrow!
22.10.2025 11:41 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0So happy you two could speak!
21.10.2025 14:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0A wonderful writer on a brilliant podcast.
21.10.2025 14:27 — 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Taking place tomorrow in Brooklyn at 8!
20.10.2025 22:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Next Tuesday, at Sisters in Brooklyn, I'll serve as the storyteller for a show revolving around Sheikh Imam. Brooklyn Maqam will perform several of Imam's songs, which challenged the tales told by Egypt's ruling regimes and are experiencing a revival. If you'll be in the city, I'd love to see you!
18.10.2025 16:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Dear Dartmouth community, I write to update you on Dartmouth’s feedback to the Administration on the recently proposed higher education compact. As I wrote to you two weeks ago, our actions will always be guided by our mission and values and a deep commitment to every member of this community. Dartmouth has a celebrated history of forging its own path—Vox clamantis in deserto—and serving as a model for teaching and discovery in American higher education. As I shared on a call yesterday with the White House, I do not believe that a compact—with any administration—is the right approach to achieve academic excellence, as it would compromise our academic freedom, our ability to govern ourselves, and the principle that federal research funds should be awarded to the best, most promising ideas.
Dartmouth will not sign the Trump Administration’s “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education.”
18.10.2025 14:56 — 👍 16 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
An important new review essay, titled "Untangling Jews from Zionism," in the International Journal of Middle East Studies, exploring Geoffrey Levin's "Our Palestine Question" and Oren Kroll-Zeldin's "Unsettled." doi.org/10.1017/S002...
14.10.2025 17:43 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A delightful surprise on my birthday: www.youtube.com/watch?v=uoyb...
12.10.2025 21:19 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Very much looking forward to this conference!
06.10.2025 21:15 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Life Goal Accomplished: Become a Hakawati! So looking forward to this evening of songs and storytelling in NYC!
03.10.2025 09:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An exciting opportunity for Middle East historians at MIT!
25.09.2025 22:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
When a reviewer wishes your book was longer 🙏
25.09.2025 20:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The fall term is officially underway and I found this note in my mailbox, from a former student, on the first day of it. Messages like this one mean so much.
18.09.2025 13:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
The fall term is officially underway and I found this note in my mailbox, from a former student, on the first day of it. Messages like this one mean so much.
18.09.2025 13:21 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“The Message,” by Ta-Nehisi Coates, is now available in Arabic!
18.09.2025 12:48 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yale's Council on Middle East Studies Fall Colloquium Series has been announced!
15.09.2025 16:03 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
An important “staff pick” at the local bookstore: Omar El Akkad’s “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This”
13.09.2025 20:36 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
