In this episode, we interview Nadia Habib, who has been teaching at York University for over 20 years, most recently in the School of Gender, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. Her research focuses on a complex examination of everyday life in the cultural and social production of the Egyptian nation in its postcolonial iteration. More recently along with her work as a poet and activist, she is working to support people whose loved ones struggle with addiction and mental health.

Nadia shares her wisdom on teaching under transactional neoliberal conditions, the importance of storytelling and making the classroom a place for students to have an embodied experience and hold space for each other, and what it means to teach in a time of genocide.

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