Alex Lubin is a professor of African American Studies at Penn State University where he studies the intersections of African American and North African/Middle Eastern social movements. He is the author of, among other things, Geographies of Liberation: The Making of an Afro-Arab Political Imaginary and Never-Ending war on Terror. He is currently at work on a monograph about Black expressive culture and the Afro-Asian People’s Solidarity Organization, which was headquartered in Cairo, Egypt during the late 1950s and parts of the 1960s.