Reviews

While these pro-Zionist narratives have been developing for many years in the Iranian diaspora, most notably among monarchists, their impact has become even more problematic since October 7, 2023. Despite the dominance of this narrative, there are many Iranian-Americans who do maintain a pro-Pal..

In this multimedia video, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat reads her article, “Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again,” published in The Nation, featuring images and video of the details recounted. This is meant to be resource for classrooms to study both the devastating impact of genocide and the ..

Ozan Ozavci’s Dangerous Gifts is an ambitious treatment of great-power politics in the Ottoman provinces of Greater Syria and Egypt in the nineteenth century. In a meticulously constructed diplomatic narrative drawing on archives and scholarship in Arabic, English, French, German, Russi..

Historians of the late Ottoman Empire have long contended that Bedouin were opposed to standardized administrative state-making or victims of increasingly colonial forms of governance in eastern Anatolia and Arabic-speaking provinces. In her groundbreaking new book, Bedouin Bureaucrats: Mobi..

Palestinian scholar Areej Sabbagh-Khoury was traumatized in her childhood by the loss of her loving father whom, she avers, could perhaps have been saved by medical staff at a Galilee hospital were it not for the breakout of the 1982 Israeli war on Lebanon and the priority given at the hospital ..

Studies of migrant labor in the Persian Gulf often generate stereotypical images of Indian men caught in a Faustian bargain: compelled to leave their homes and loved ones in search of employment, or worse, unwittingly ensnared in cycles of debt and exploitation. Andrea Wright’s Between Dream..

The Egyptian revolution of 2011 is not only a watershed episode in Middle Eastern political history but also a curious case from the perspective of scholarship. It has been the subject of extensive analysis – perhaps not since the 1979 Iranian revolution have so many reports, articles, and books..

Yasmin El-Rifae and Lucia Carminati first met in March 2023 in Cairo, when El-Rifae presented her book Radius. A Story of Feminist Revolution at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in Zamalek in dialogue with Sally AlHaq. What follows is a conversation that took place later, between Londo..