Fadi A. Bardiwil, "Difference and Power: Thinking with Talal Asad and Edward Said"

ICM Lecture Series Fall 2026 FADI A. BARDIWIL (Duke University) The Institute for Comparative Modernities is pleased to welcome Fadi A. Bardiwil back to campus as we host a lecture about his current research, "Difference and Power: Thinking with Talal Asad and Edward Said" BIO Fadi A. Bardiwil is Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke University. His most recent book Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Duke UP 2020) focuses on how the 1960s Arab New Left addressed the question of mediation between theory and practice, the internat