This is a list of the top 100 mostread articles in 2016. Thanks to you, this year has attracted the broadest readership we have had since Jadaliyya`s inception in 2010.
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Top-100 Most Read Articles on Jadaliyya in 2016
2. أخبار السيسي السارة لن تسره
3. The Left and the Syria Debate
4. How the West Undermined Women’s Rights in the Arab World
5. تقرير هشام جنينة: بين التجاهل التام وثراء المحتوى
6. Hollow Words: Egypt, Italy, and Justice for Giulio
7. The Fantasies of Kamel Daoud
8. `Lines Drawn on an Empty Map`: Iraq’s Borders and the Legend of the Artificial State (Part 1)
9. Fear and Loathing in Orlando
10. Speaking of Palestine: Solidarity and Its Censors
11. Aleppo: Impending Battle [Ongoing Post]
12. Baghdad through Latif al-Ani`s Lens
13. ISIS: The `Islamic State` between Orientalism and the Interiority of MENA’s Intellectuals
14. Hope without Illusion: Ten Signs of Change in Egypt
15. Sexual Violence in Egypt: Myths and Realities
16. سعوديون في إسرائيل: التطبيع يحفر مجراه
17. Kamel Daoud: Sexual Demonization and the Secularist Select
18. Five Years After the Arab Uprisings: An Interview with Asef Bayat
19. ممنوع الاقتراب أو التصوير: الجيش والاقتصاد في مصر
20. What the West Owes Syrians: US and European Arms Sales to the Middle East 2011-2014
21. New Texts Out Now: Ella Shohat, The Question of Judeo-Arabic
22. Critical Readings in Political Economy
24. خطوط مرسومة على خريطة فارغة: حدود العراق وأسطورة الدولة المصطنعة الجزء الأول
25. How Not to Understand Egypt’s Sectarianism
26. Manifesto Against the Woman
27. Repairing America’s Broken Foreign Policy
28. Acts and Omissions: Framing Settler Colonialism in Palestine Studies
29. Racism in the Defense of a Racist State: Some Reflections on BDS at the Modern Language Association
30. Muslims and the Challenge of Historiography: An Interview with Salman Sayyid (Part One)
31. الثورات العربية في سياق الربيع العربي والديمقراطية
32. The Ouarzazate Solar Plant in Morocco: Triumphal `Green` Capitalism and the Privatization of Nature
33. الثورة المضادة في مصر: دور الخوف وتغوّل الأجهزة الأمنية
34. Brief Reflections on Assassinations and Intolerance in Jordan
35. Tribalism in the Arabian Peninsula: It Is a Family Affair
36. ما هي النكبة؟
37. The `Taharrush` Connection: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Sexual Violence in Germany and Beyond
38. “This Land is their Land”: Egypt’s Military and the Economy
39. Decoding an Urban Myth: An Inquiry into the Socio-Economics of Van Number 4 in Beirut
40. Under Fire: Translating the Growing Crisis in the Kurdish Cities of Turkey’s Southeast
41. إدواردو غاليانو عن فيديل كاسترو
42. Do Muslims Belong in the West? An Interview with Talal Asad
43. Allegory of a Revolution: José Clemente Orozco’s “The Trench”
44. The Art of Healing: Syrian Refugee Children Express Themselves
47. The `Taharrush` Connection: Xenophobia, Islamophobia, and Sexual Violence in Germany and Beyond
48. الظاهر بيبرس وإبنه بركة خان
49. Publications: An Excerpt From the Book “Occupied Pleasures”
51. Settler Colonialism: A Useful Category of Historical Analysis?
52. Mapping New Constructions in Beirut (2000-2013)
53. The Legacy of Turkish in the Armenian Diaspora
54. ما الذي يجري في حلب؟ حديث مع مراسل صحيفة الحياة في سوريا ابراهيم حميدي
55. Snapshot: Amman
57. Urban Conflicts and Multiple War Narratives: The Case of Aleppo
58. The Sixth Anniversary of the Start of the Arab Uprisings
59. العاصمة
60. لماذا يتواصل المشروع النيوليبرالي في المنطقة العربية؟
61. Reflections on Authoring the Chapter on Young Women for the 2016 Arab Human Development Report
62. Beyond `Tolerance` and `Intolerance`: Deconstructing the Myth of the Islamic Golden Age
63. Syria: An Interview with Samer Abboud
64. The Anti-Colonial Origins of Humanitarian Intervention: NGOs, Human Rights
66. “Cleaning out the Ghettos” - Urban Governance and the Remaking of Kurdistan
67. What is Settler Colonialism?
68. Today I Testified Before the CUNY Task Force on Anti-Semitism
69. Saudi Arabia Gazes at Lebanon with Vengeance
70. Jadaliyya Co-Editor Noura Erakat Responds to Kerry Speech and Congressman Brad Sherman on MSNBC
71. Sexual Violence in Egypt: Myths and Realities
73. We Are All Uncomfortable: On Academic Boycott & What Is Productive
74. الأردن وعقدة الدور الوظيفي
75. باية محي الدين: الرسم على إيقاع الطفولة
77. Quick Thoughts: Mouin Rabbani on Aleppo and the Syria Conflict
79. The Turkish State of Emergency and LGBT+ Kurds
81. Let Us Now Praise Murderous Men; Lebanese Presidential Candidates, Considered
82. Beyond Authenticity: ISIS and the Islamic Legal Tradition
83. In Turkey: A Question of Emergency
84. كيف يمكن أن نفهم الألتراس؟
85. `Shi`a Forces`, `Iraqi Army`, and the Perils of Sect-Coding
86. A Brief History of Fortress Europe
87. Quick Thoughts: Maria Fantappie on Syria’s Kurds
88. الانترنت والعولمة الثقافية
89. لمّا يسارع الرجال لتصويب كلام النساء
90. Politics of Piety: The Islamic Revival and the Feminist Subject
91. A Glimpse Into Arab Studies Journal’s Newly Released Issue: Spring 2016
92. The Geo-Economics of Gulf Food Imports
93. The Five-Square-Meters Maid`s Room: Lebanon`s Racist, Gendered Architecture
94. Resisting Amnesia: Twenty Five Years After the Al Amiriyah Attack
95. Oil: The Stuff of Mass Delusion
96. Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad Addresses Syria Today on Democracy Now!
98. Tradition and the Anti-Politics Machine: DAM Seduced by the “Honor Crime”