Misc

5:30 a.m. I emerge into consciousness—hazy, alert, terrified by the thought that in the three hours of fragile sleep I managed, I may have lost a friend back home. Israel has launched a sudden and staggering military assault on Iran. The full scope of the operation remains unknown, but the targe..

The ‘Axis of Resistance’ (Mihwar al-muqawama), a coalition of forces at which the Islamic Republic of Iran has been at the centre, was formed in the crucible of revolution, war and occupation, and has garnered global attention in the wake of the Hamas-led Operation Al-Aqsa Flood of Octo..

Alongside their explicitly genocidal utterances since October, 2023, Israeli officials have repeatedly emphasized that the State’s military assault on Gaza is not directed at Gaza’s civilians but is instead a defensive war against Hamas. Gaza’s own journalists, however, have broadcast n..

Traces of this dis-invention persist all over the landscape today. To travel around 1948 lands is to happen upon places that just eighty years ago constituted a civilization and today are levelled: the well crumbling and filled with stagnant water, the pastures overgrown and twisted with cacti, ..

The Arab Studies Institute cordially invites you to visit us at the 2019 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), held in New Orleans, Louisiana, November 14-17. You can find us at our catered reception (Rhythms II, second floor), our book exhibit booth (37&38), and at t..

In his debut album, Sindibad El Ward, Shabjdeed takes you on a musical journey imbued with so much tenacity and emotional prowess that it is both arresting and invigorating. The album is the product of his collaboration with producer Al Nather with whom he formed the collective “BLTNM” ..

The UCLA Department of History invites applications for a tenure-track position at the rank of assistant professor in 16th through mid-19th century Ottoman history. The department welcomes applications considering any theme or methodological approach. Appointment will begin on July 1, 2020..

The History Department at Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas along with the School of Government and Social Sciences of Tecnologico  de Monterrey and the Institute of Philology at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico request submissions to the conference "Diversities ..

Book Review: The Rise of the Arab-American Left: Activists, Allies, and Their Fight against Imperialism and Racism, 1960s-1980s, Pamela E. Pennock

In August 2017, a Christian man and a Muslim woman (Boutros and Marwa) made 

During the past week, a Hamas delegation paid an official visit to Egypt, which these days is news in and of itself. During its time in Cairo, the delegation also met with former Fatah warlord Muhammad Dahlan, which is even bigger news.

The Hamas delegation w..

The 1967 war was a fundamental, damning failure for the Arab world. In the course of six short days, Israel expanded its jurisdiction across the Egyptian Sinai Peninsula and the Syrian Golan Heights, as well as the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. For nineteen years, Arab states had regarded ..

[This call was released by Academics for Peace on 7 June 2017. The statement is also available in Arabic, Bengali, Bulgarian, Chinese (Mandarin), French, Finnish, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Kurdish (Sorani), Kurdi..