Nour MJ Hodeib

Nour Mohamad Jamil Hodeib is a writer, scholar, and cultural activist based in Brooklyn, New York. Hodeib is currently a Doctoral Candidate in the history program, Graduate Center (CUNY), writing a dissertation on leftist sonic countercultures of the Lebanese Civil War (1975-1990). Specifically, Hodeib explores how a quasi industry emerged around songs by communist artists during the war, contextualizing songs within the period’s technological, political, economic and cultural dynamics. Hodeib asks how a study of songs can provide a nuanced understanding of the experience and memory of that period (away from the politics of amnesia that prevail post-war Lebanon). Beyond Lebanon, Hodeib examines Beirut as a site of the Global Sixties in which globalized pop cultural phenomena like Rock’n’Roll intersected with Third Worldist revolutionary rhetoric.