Nasser Abourahme

Nasser Abourahme serves as an Assistant Professor in the Middle Eastern and North African Studies program at Bowdoin College, a liberal arts institution in Brunswick, Maine. He is currently on academic leave for the 2025–2026 year. His interdisciplinary work bridges comparative colonial history, political geography, and political theory with a concentrated focus on Palestine and decolonial thought.

His research critically examines settler colonialism and race; revolution and revolt; Marxism and global Left thought; anticolonial traditions; borders and migration; and histories of encampment and carcerality. He actively integrates critical pedagogy into academic training, emphasizing methodological rigor in challenging dominant historical narratives.

Abourahme's publications reveal consistent engagement with temporalities of revolution and colonial foundations of migration regimes. His work reinterprets concepts like inhabitation and return through settler colonial history, demonstrating how anticolonial archives can reshape contemporary political theory beyond presentist crisis frameworks.

He received the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award for his monograph The Time beneath the Concrete: Palestine between Camp and Colony (2025), which examines the material and spatial intersections of camps and colonies in Palestinian contexts.

While specific advising records and grant details remain unreported in available sources, his research trajectory indicates deep commitment to decolonial scholarship and conceptual innovation within Area Studies, particularly through repositioning Middle Eastern expertise as generators of theoretical thought rather than empirical data.