Today’s conversation is with Nadia Alahmed, who teaches in the Department of Africana Studies at Dickinson College.Her research centers on the historical, political and cultural connections between Middle East and Black America. Her book Black Intifada: a Century of Black and Palestinian Solidarity is forthcoming in 2027 and she is at work on a second book tentatively titled Afro-Arabs and the Changing Discourse on Race and Ethnicity in Middle East and North Africa, which explores ethno-racial formations in the region. In this conversation, we discuss political and cultural history, the possibilities of Black-Arab solidarity, and the meaning of scholarship and activist practice in Black Studies.