Africana studies is a tradition of intellectual inquiry and study of African peoples. Using a transdisciplinarian approach, Africana scholars document the global migrations and reconstruction of African peoples, as well as patterns of linkages to the African continent (and among the peoples of the African Diaspora). Having perhaps the most international faculty on the Cornell campus, all professors represent the three regions of the African Diaspora: Africa, African America, and African Caribbean - the three foci of Africana Studies. In addition to the faculty, the Africana Studies and Research Center is comprised of nationally and internationally-recognized scholars and educators; socially-conscious intellectuals; and students representing each of Cornell's undergraduate and graduate schools and colleges.
Department websitewith Siba N. Grovogui. ‘ „Das dürfte in Europa eigentlich nicht passieren“: Das Problem der Internationalen Beziehungen aus Sicht des Global Südens’, Peripherie: Politik, Ökonomie, Kultur, Vol 43, No. 169-170 (August 2023), pp. 11-45. https://doi.org/10.3224/peripherie.v43i1.02
‘Subverting Colonial Aesthetics: Frantz Fanon, W.E.B. Du Bois and Janelle Monaé’, in: Grant Farred (ed.). Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2022).
1. “On the Differences between the Classical and the ‘Western’ Marxist Conceptions of Science” Marxism & Sciences 1(1), Winter 2022, 193-217: https://marxismandsciences.org/on-the-differences-between-the-classical-and-the-western-marxist-conceptions-of-science/
2. "Lotus and the Self-Representation of Afro-Asian Writers as the Vanguard of Modernity." Interventions: International Journal of Postcolonial Studies 2021, Vol. 23, No. 4, 596-620, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369801X.2020.1784021 (first published online 24 June 2020)
3. “Amílcar Cabral’s Modernist Philosophy of Culture and Cultural Liberation.” Journal of African Cultural Studies 2020, Vol. 32, No.2, 231-250, https://doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2019.1624155 (First published online on 12 June 2019)
4. “Using the Concepts of Hermeneutical Injustice and Ideology to Explain the Stability of Ancient Egypt during the Middle Kingdom." Journal of Historical Sociology 2020, Vol. 33, No. 3, 345-370, https://doi.org/10.1111/johs.12287
5. "Hegel's Proto-Modernist Conception of Philosophy as Science" [A concepção protomodernista de Hegel da filosofia como ciência] Problemata: Revista Internacional de Filosofia. Special Issue on "Hegel, Dialectic, Science, and Freedom", 2020, Vol.11, No.4 : 81-107, https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v11i4.52207
6. "Freedom Giving Birth to Order: Philosophical Reflections on Peirce's Evolutionary Cosmology and its Contemporary Resurrections." Cosmos and History: The Journal of Natural and Social Philosophy, 2020, Vol.16, No.1, 1-23, https://cosmosandhistory.org/index.php/journal/article/view/827/1471
7. “Aristotle on Natural Slavery: An Analysis Using the Marxist Concept of Ideology.” Science & Society April 2019, Vol. 83, No. 2: 244–267, https://doi.org/10.1521/siso.2019.83.2.244
8. "Why Did Kant Conclude the Critique of Pure Reason with ‘the History of Pure Reason’?" Kant Studies Online -KSO (2016):78-104, https://kantstudiesonline.net/uploads/files/NabolsyZeyadEl00316.pdf
1. "Lenin in East Africa: Abdul Rahman Mohammed Babu and Dani Wadada Nabudere." In The Future of Lenin: Power, Politics, and Revolution in the 21st Century, edited by Alla Ivanchikova and Robert Maclean, 2022. Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
2. “Paulin J. Hountondji on Philosophy, Science, and Technology: From Husserl and Althusser to a Synthesis of the Hessen- Grossmann Thesis and Dependency Theory.” In Africana Studies: Theoretical Futures, edited by Grant Farred, 2022. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.
3.“Listening (Chapter 18).” In Keywords in Radical Philosophy and Education: Common Concepts for Contemporary Movements, edited by Derek R. Ford, 255-270. 2019. Leiden: Brill.
1. Book Review of “Fundamentalism and Secularization by Mourad Wahba. Translated by Robert Beshara.” Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, July 16, 2022: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/20331_fundamentalism-and-secularization-by-mourad-wahba-reviewed-by-zeyad-el-nabolsy/
2. “Did Dependency Theorists Really Ignore Culture?”, for Africa is a Country, July 11th, 2022: https://www.africasacountry.com/2022/07/did-dependency-theorists-really-ignore-culture
3. "African Socialism in Retrospect: Karim Hirji's The Travails of a Tanzanian Teacher." Liberated Texts, March 23 2021.https://liberatedtexts.com/reviews/african-socialism-in-retrospect-karim-f-hirjis-the-travails-of-a-tanzanian-teacher/ Republished in Review of African Political Economy, October 19th, 2021: https://roape.net/2021/10/19/african-socialism-in-tanzania-karim-hirjis-the-travails-of-a-tanzanian-teacher/
4."Helmi Sharawy’s Critique of Racial and Colonial Paradigms in Egyptian African Studies" Racial Formations in Africa and the Middle East: A Transregional Approach, POMEPS Studies September 2021, Vol. 44, 67-73: https://pomeps.org/helmi-sharawys-critique-of-racial-and-colonial-paradigms-in-egyptian-african-studies
5. Book Review of "Paulin Hountondji: African Philosophy as Critical Universalism by Franziska Dübgen and Stefan Skupien" Marx & Philosophy Review of Books, June 14 2020: https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/18110_paulin-hountondji-african-philosophy-as-critical-universalism-by-franziska-dubgen-and-stefan-skupien-reviewed-by-zeyad-el-nabolsy/
"Black Tunisians and the Pitfalls of Bourguiba’s Homogenization Project" POMEPS.org
https://pomeps.org/black-tunisians-and-the-pitfalls-of-bourguibas-homogenization-project
5 Afro-Arab Female Voices to Center and Amplify in the Fight Against Anti-Black Racism
Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part Two): An Introductory Course in Arabic, with Munther Younes, Hanada al-Masri, Jonathan Featherstone, and Lizz Huntley (Routledge, January 2023)
Arabiyyat al-Naas fii Bilaad al-Shaam (Part One): An Introductory Course in Arabic, with Munther Younes and Maha Foster (forthcoming 2023)
Weatherspoon, M. (2021). "Laughing and Learning: Utilizing Humor in the Arabic as a Foreign Language Classroom". In Vaidya, K. (Ed.), Teach Arabic with a Sense of Humor: Why (and how to) be a Funnier and more Effective Arabic Teacher and Laugh all the Way to your Classroom ISBN 978-1-925128-04-8.
Arabiyyat al-Naas fii MaSr (Part One): An Introductory Course in Arabic, with Munther Younes, Jonathan Featherstone, and Lizz Huntley (Routledge, 2019)
Arabiyyat al-Naas (Part One): An Introductory Course in Arabic, with Munther Younes and Maha Foster (Routledge, 2013)