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In this episode of GV360 Weekly we will be talking to Prof. Sadam Issa on how ISIS is Imagined and Pictured by several Independent Artists in local Arab Newspapers.

Prof. Issa is a scholar of Arabic and an Assistant Professor at the Linguistics Department of Michigan State University. His research interests range from discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, to research on anxiety in the classroom, the use of technology, visual rhetoric, and lastly, political cartoons. He has also published articles in a number of journals including: Al-'Arabiyya, Pragmatics and Society, Arabic Studies Quarterly, the Journal of Politeness Research, Popular Music and Society, Visual Studies, and the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics. He is currently writing a book on Arabic political cartoons.

In this episode of GV360 Weekly we will be talking to Prof. Sarthak Bagchi, an expert in Indian Politics on West Bengal Assembly Elections 2021. West Bengal is one of the states in the East India.

Prof. Bagchi will speak about the West Bengal elections while giving a historical context as well as how the intersections like caste, class, and religion will come to play in deciding the result of the elections.

From Indian National Congress (INC) to Left Alliance to Trinamool Congress (TMC) and now perhaps rising power in the state Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), Prof. Bagchi will walk us through the politics of West Bengal in great detail.



Prof. Sarthak Bagchi's bio

Prof. Sarthak Bagchi is an Assistant Professor at the School of Arts and Sciences,  Ahmedabad University. He teaches courses on Democracy, Indian Political  Processes and India's democratic transformation. His research is  primarily focused on clientelism and patronage politics, comparative  politics, Indian state politics, Populism, Informal Politics and  Identity Politics. He also writes on politics for general audiences in  The Wire, The Indian Express and The Hindu Centre for Politics and  Public Policy and appears as a political commentator for television news  channel, NDTV india. He has also worked as a journalist with TV news  channel, News X, before entering academics. He has previously worked  with KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean  Studies), Leiden and Göttingen University, Germany as researcher and  post-doctoral researcher respectively. For his doctoral research he  worked at the Institute for Area Studies, Leiden University where he  conducted a comparative study of patronage politics in the Indian states  of Bihar and Maharashtra.