Pedagogy

The Middle East and Islamic Consortium (MEICON), a collaborative academic and research project, is now accepting submissions for the 2025 MEICON Student Conference, to be organized by SFU’s Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies. This in-person conference will be held on Saturday, March 15, 2025,..

The Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) brings you the twentieth in a series of “Peer-Reviewed Article Reviews” in which we present a collection of journals and their articles concerned with the Middle East and Arab world. This series will be published seasonally. Each issu..

Committee A, the policy arm of the national AAUP (American Association of University Professors), rarely gets it wrong. Its membership is made up of wise minds, conscious of the weight of more than 100 years of careful deliberation and action on the part of an organization which has served as th..

The urban experience and subjectivities of people are constituted in each other, both affect and shape the other. Peoples’ bodies, as humans and urban subjects, move in places that are materially produced in relation to urban political economic decisions which evolved over time. The monolith of ..

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..

As evidenced by recent initiatives, scholars in Middle East studies (MES) are beginning to show a greater interest in pedagogy. That said, classroom teaching and learning remain subsidiary to most MES scholars’ research-focused agendas. More than relegating pedagogy to a lower status, I believe ..

We are proud to publish this special issue as an intervention into the urgent and ongoing multidisciplinary conversation on questions of nature in the Middle East. Coordinated by guest editors Katharina Lange and Juliane Schumacher, the issue significantly expands this conversation’s regional an..

In 2022/23 the seminar series, Researching Palestine ran for eight weeks at Dar Jacir (Bethlehem) with talks from early career researchers covering topics such as mental health in the West Bank and the Bethlehem psychiatric hospital, alternative histories of the Palestinian photographer..

The Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) brings you this bouquet of pieces including peer-reviewed articles on Gaza. These items in our database were published in peer-reviewed academic journals for the years 2005-2021.