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The Latin East Initiative Editors

The Latin East Initiative is organized around three broad themes: The first is Latin America in the Middle East. Due to the legacy of successive waves of migration from the Middle East to the Latin America in the twentieth century, most accounts of the relationship between both regions have focused on Middle Eastern influence in Latin America. However, as contributors under this theme reveal, Latin America’s influence in the Middle East, direct and indirect, is deep, longstanding, and wide-ranging, appearing in politics, economics, culture, and ideology. Comparative Regionalism is our second organizing theme. It features contributions that focus on how democracy, neoliberalism, post-neoliberal development, political parties, and social movements manifest themselves similarly or differently in both regions. Our third thematic area examines recent history. Here, contributors consider social movements, political, economic and cultural exchanges, and transnational solidarity and diaspora politics in light of the Arab Spring and winter, and against the backdrop of nearly two decades of left-wing governance in Latin America. It is organized by NACLAMERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project), and Jadaliyya.

ARTICLES BY The Latin East Initiative Editors

  • Announcing the Latin East Initiative

    Announcing the Latin East Initiative

    Jadaliyya is happy to announce the launching of The Latin East initiative, a joint collaboration with the North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) and the Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP). So far, the initiative has resulted in the publication of special issues by bot..