Jordan الأردن

Empire of Refugees is a transimperial history of migration that reveals the origins of organized refugee resettlement in the Middle East. It explores how the Ottoman government reshaped the empire through refugee migration.

Amman has been a constant obsession in my writing. For a start, it is my hometown, where my memories of society and place were formed. The memories of my father Abdel Fattah (born in Amman in 1937) and my aunt Isaaf al-Diraniyyeh (born in Amman in 1919) were in..

Most of the available literature on climate and energy in North Africa and the Arab region is produced by international neoliberal institutions. Their gaze is biased and imbued with orientalist tropes which maintain and reinforce old colonial relations, even wh..

The book addresses the experiences of the Bedouin inhabitants of the region I call the Syrian interior, which roughly corresponds to contemporary Jordan and southern Syria, in the Ottoman imperial context. Existing literature has mainly described Bedouin as eit..

Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp has been born and reborn many times since 2016, when I was starting as a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. I came to my PhD with questions about time in refugee camp settings, prompted by my master’s resea..

In the early 2000s, I shared some political science articles on Jordan—including my own work—with one of my Jordanian colleagues. I later asked what they thought, and the comment was devastating: “I just don’t recognize Jordan.”

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it—and the spatial dynamics of protests..

Protest has been a key method of political claim-making in Jordan from the late Ottoman period to the present day. More than moments of rupture within normal-time politics, protests have been central to challenging state power, as well as reproducing it—and the spatial dynamics of protests play ..