Dr. May Kosba (RU-NB, AMESALL) “Becoming Black/Christian, (un)Becoming Arab/Muslim: Affective Geographies and the Search for a Liberation Theology Beyond Whiteness”
This talk analyzes the socio-political activism of Dr. Mostafa Hefny, a US-based Nubian Egyptian organizer whose challenge to racial classification as white in the US census reshaped his political and religious consciousness. Drawing on his autobiography, it traces how his legal struggle reconfigures Nubian displacement within an American Christian framework, revealing transnational dialectics of racialization and identity politics.
Dr. May Kosba is a Lecturer in the Department of African, Middle Eastern, and South Asian Languages and Literatures and a Postdoctoral Associate at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis (RCHA) at RU-NB. She earned her Ph.D. from the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) in Berkeley, California