Mahatma Gandhi, Nonviolent Power "A Rebel To America: 'N.Y. State of Mind' After the Towers Fell," in Born To Use Mics: Reading Nas's Illmatic, Sohail Daulatzai & Michael Eric Dyson (eds.), Basic Civitas. “The Birth and Rise of L.A. Rap,” in Movement: Hip-Hop in L.A., ’s – Now, Exhibit Catalog, sponsored by City of Los Angeles Department Cultural Affairs,
Executive Director, CAIR San Francisco Born at the Af-Pak border and raised in L.A. near the U.S-Mexico border, Sohail Daulatzai writes about race, U.S.-Muslim relations, film, hip-hop, U.S. political culture, social movements, and American foreign policy.
Sohail Daulatzai elucidates that Sohail Daulatzai is associate professor in the Department of Film and Media Studies and the Program in African American Studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is coeditor of Born to Use Mics: Reading Nas’s Illmatic. Read full bio.
In his 2012 interdisciplinary study Sohail Daulatzai's practice explores the afterlives of empire through text, short film/video, sound, and the curatorial. He is the author and coeditor of several books, essays, liner notes, and other ephemera.
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Sohail Daulatzai’s Black Star, Crescent Moon: The Muslim International and Black Freedom beyond America ambitiously addresses a highly impactful topic in African American culture that has been largely ignored by the US academy. Daulatzai, Sohail. Black Star, Sohail Daulatzai advocates for the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement at the University of California, Irvine (UCI), where he is an associate professor of Film and Media and African American Studies.
Sohail Daulatzai, Black Star, Sohail Daulatzai is associate professor of film and media studies and African American studies at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Black Star, Crescent.
No kin to the The Battle of Algiers, a film that poetically captures Algerian resistance to French colonial occupation, is widely considered one of the greatest films of all time, having influenced leftist and anti-colonial struggles from the Palestine Liberation Organization, to the Black Panther Party and the Irish Republican Army amongst others.