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The Ansar Allah movement in Yemen, also known as the Houthis, recently escalated its intervention on behalf of the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to include not only Israeli ships seeking to enter the Red Sea, but any ship docking at an Israeli port. The United States on 18 December announced Op..

Towards the end of 2011, I had just finished the manuscript for Time in the Shadows, research for which had been devastating. For years, I had been speaking to torture and detention v..

The question around which this panel pivots is how to constitute refugee vulnerability in ways that take account of the social links, economic disparities, and political relations that form the context of refugee life in the global South more broadly and in Lebanon more specifically.  I want to ..

The Trump executive order that puts into place a series of unconstitutional restrictions on migration of citizens of seven Middle Eastern and African countries is anything but an instance of harried incompetence by an inexperienced White House staff. Rather, it is, like so many other Trump execu..

Laleh Khalili, Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2012.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Laleh Khalili (LK): In the course of compl..

Dictaphone Group, This Sea Is Mine. Beirut, Lebanon, 28 August - 8 September 2012.

A familiar feature of the Beirut waterfront is the ongoing struggle between Beirutis who want access to the sea and the barriers erected to precisely prevent that on the part of a..

Abeer Baker and Anat Matar (eds.), Threat: Palestinian Political Prisoners in Israel. London: Pluto Press, 2011.

There are many harrowing passages in the excellent new edited v..

The end of the nineteenth century and beginning of the twentieth century were decisive years in British asymmetric warfare in its colonies and against colonial rebels. Those years were significant not only bec..