Taking its inspiration from Ebert’s own critical methodology as set forth in his new book Awake in the Dark: The Best of Roger Ebert, Tara
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Nadia Abu El-Haj is an assistant professor in the department of anthropology at Barnard College. She previously taught here at the University of Chicago where
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