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Andrew Simon is a historian of media, popular culture, and the Middle East. He holds a B.A. in Arabic, Middle East, and Islamic Studies from Duke University and was a fellow at the Center for Arabic Study Abroad in Cairo during the 2011 Egyptian Revolution. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University and is currently serving as a Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth. Andrew is the modern history book review editor for the International Journal of Middle East Studies and his interdisciplinary research has received generous support from the Social Science Research Council and the American Research Center in Egypt. His work was published in the International Journal of Middle East Studies and cited in the Washington Post. Andrew's new, award-winning book, Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press 2022), shares the extraordinary story of an ordinary object. An Arabic translation is forthcoming with Dar El Shorouk in Egypt.
Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt (Stanford University Press, 2022) Series: Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures
Simon, Andrew. "Censuring Sounds: Tapes, Taste, and the Creation of Egyptian Culture." International Journal of Middle East Studies 51, no. 2 (2019): 233-256.
Simon, Andrew. "An Ordinary Icon: Cassettes, Counternarratives, and Shaykh Imam," in The Power of Song: The Cultural Politics of Singers Around the Globe (University of Illinois Press 2023).
Simon, Andrew. "The Politics and Power of Popular Egyptian Music." Current History 122, no. 9 (2023): 358-360.
"Audiocassettes and the Internet: Archives, Mass Media, and Middle East Studies" (invited speaker)
Cambridge, MA, "New Works Speaker Series," Harvard University. 2024.
"Debating Public Knowledge in Modern Egypt" (invited speaker)
Montréal, Canada, Annual Meeting for the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). 2023.
"Revisiting the Arab Sixties" (invited speaker)
Montréal, Canada, Annual Meeting for the Middle East Studies Association (MESA). 2023.
"Cassette Culture: A Community Conversation" (invited speaker)
The American University in Cairo (AUC), School of Continuing Education. 2023.
"Egypt as a Mixtape: Adawiya, Imam, and the Politics of Popular Culture" (invited speaker)
The Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Cairo (NVIC). 2023.
"Mass Media, Middle East History, and Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (invited speaker)
Philadelphia, PA, Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, University of Pennsylvania. 2022.
"Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (invited speaker)
Evanston, IL, New Directions in Middle East & North African Studies, Northwestern University. 2022.
"Media of the Masses: Cassette Culture in Modern Egypt" (invited speaker)
Afikra, Outline Series: Mapping Projects from Idea to Outcome. 2022.
"Mass Media, the Middle East, and the Arab Spring" (invited speaker)
Madison, WI, "Who is Afraid of Democracy?," University of Wisconsin-Madison. 2022.
Egypt's Acoustic Culture: A Digital Archive
Modern History Book Review Editor, International Journal of Middle East Studies (2022 - present)