In recognition of Earth Day 2021, Jadaliyya’s Environment Page celebrates the one-year anniversary of the page’s 2020 launch. The co-editors have prepared this post to share all the articles, “Environment in Context” podcast episodes, live event recordings, interviews, and more published since the page’s launch.
We hope these resources will be useful for researchers; all who are looking to learn more about environmental questions in the region; and those in search of teaching materials that critically engage with these topics.
We continue to welcome submissions to the page, and encourage you to read and share our current call for submissions, which invites general submissions and submissions that provide critical analyses of the relationship between the Arab uprisings and environmental questions in the Middle East and North Africa.
Thank you to all of our readers, listeners, and viewers for supporting the page over this past year! You can reach our editorial team at environment@jadaliyya.com with questions or ideas about how to contribute. We are delighted to share these interventions with you, and look forward to publishing more work in the months and years ahead.
Browse our published works from the past year in the following categories:
● Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism / Race and the Environment
● Infrastructure / Engineering / The Built Environment
● Political Economy: Labor, Commodities, Markets, and the Environment
● Analyzing Dominant Narratives: Ecology, Scarcity, and Resources
● Climate Change / Climate Crisis / Environmental Disasters
● COVID-19, Disease, and the Environment
● In Solidarity
● Media Roundups
Environmental Justice / Environmental Racism / Race and the Environment
Toxic Saturation and Health Devastation in Iraq: The Indelible Damage of War (Part 1)
Carly A. Krakow
Environmental Reclamations (Podcast)
Huma Gupta and Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi
Essential Readings: Land, Water, and the Environment in Israeli Occupied Palestinian Territories (by Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins)
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Environmental Justice in the Middle East: Activism, Resistance, and Decolonisation (Video) (Video)
Carly A. Krakow, Muna Dajani, Mona Harb, Michael Mason
Environmental Protection and Education as Resistance to Injustice in Palestine: An Interview with Mazin Qumsiyeh (Video)
Mazin Qumsiyeh, hosted by Carly A. Krakow and Huma Gupta
Quick Thoughts: Carly A. Krakow on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Environmental Racism
Carly A. Krakow
Green Energy Colonialism in the Occupied Syrian Golan Heights (Podcast)
Wael Tarabieh and Muna Dajani, hosted by Malihe Razazan
Infrastructure / Engineering / The Built Environment
The Transformation of Dubai Creek into Infrastructure (Podcast)
Todd Reisz, hosted by Huma Gupta
Wetlands and the Moral Ecologies of Infrastructure in Turkey (Podcast)
Caterina Scaramelli, hosted by Huma Gupta and Camille Cole
Introduction: A Roundtable on Engineers, Technopolitics, and the Environment
Danya Al-Saleh and Mohammed Rafi Arefin
Retrofitting Materials, Retooling Expertise
Gökçe Günel
Cairo’s Sanitary Engineers: Debating Growth and Efficiency
Shehab Fakhry Ismail
Engineering Water: Dams, Modularity, and State Power in Cold War Iran
Shima Houshyar
“How I Learned to Start Thinking Like an Engineer: Lessons from Palestine”
Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins
Engineering Nationalism
Majed Akhter
“Technoscience, the Continuity of the Zionist Settler-Colonial Project, and Infrastructures of Elimination”
Samer Alatout
Gehood Zateya: Incremental Infrastructure from Below
Noura Wahby
Doing Environmental, Infrastructural, and Urban Histories along the Suez Canal
Mohamed Gamal-Eldin
Political Economy: Labor, Commodities, Markets, and the Environment
Fast Fashion & Sustainability in Bahrain with Rawan Maki (Podcast)
Rawan Maki, hosted by Huma Gupta
Ecologies of Capital in Egypt (Podcast)
Aaron Jakes, hosted by Huma Gupta and Camille Cole
The Agrarian Question in Lebanon Today: A View from a Camp in the Bekaa Valley
China Sajadian
Phosphates & the Political Economy of Environmental Transformation in Tunisia (Podcast)
Layli Foroudi, hosted by Huma Gupta
Cement, War, and Toxicity: The Materialities of Displacement in Iraq (Podcast)
Kali Rubaii, hosted by Huma Gupta and Gabi Kirk
Analyzing Dominant Narratives: Ecology, Scarcity, and Resources
Michael Christopher Low, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (New Texts Out Now)
Michael Christopher Low
Bioregional Imaginings in Two Recent Mesopotamian Novels
Matthew Chovanec
In the Shadow of the Mountains: The Jordan Valley and Israel/Palestine's Marginalized East
Matan Kaminer
Ecological Imaginaries of Water and Climate Change in Dubai (Podcast)
Nadia Christidi, hosted by Huma Gupta and Danya Al-Saleh
Sowing Scarcity: Syria’s Wheat Regime from Self-Sufficiency to Import-Dependency
Rohan Advani
Robert Vitalis, Oilcraft: The Myths of Scarcity and Security That Haunt U.S. Energy Policy (New Texts Out Now)
Robert Vitalis
Iraq and the Arab World on the Edge of the Abyss: A Conversation with Kurdish Iraqi Journalist and Environmental Affairs Researcher, Khalid Suleiman
Khalid Suleiman interviewed by Osama Esber, translated by Huma Gupta
Middle East History in the Time of COVID-19: A Roundtable on Disease, Environment, and Medicine
Joelle Abi-Rached, A. Tylor Brand, Christopher Rose, Seçil Yılmaz, and the Environment Page Editors
The Campaign to Eradicate Smallpox in Monarchic Iraq
Sara Farhan and Huma Gupta
Jadaliyya Talks: Co-Editors Go In-Depth on the New Environment Page (Podcast)
Danya Al-Saleh, Brittany Cook, Huma Gupta, and Owain Lawson, hosted by Malihe Razazan
Essential Readings: Environment and Politics in the Middle East
Camille Cole, Brittany Cook, Gabi Kirk and the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI)
Climate Change / Climate Crisis / Environmental Disasters
The World Is Burning - Fire and Climate Crisis from the Mediterranean to the US West Coast (Video)
Zena Agha, Diana K. Davis, Salma Nashabe Talhouk, Gabi Kirk
Wildfires in Mount Cudi and the Ecological, Ideological, Political, and Historical Dimensions of Forest Fires: Turkey's Destruction of the Kurdish Environment
Anil Olcan and Zozan Pehlivan
Water Scarcity, Climate Change, and COVID-19 in Yemen: An Interview with Helen Lackner
Helen Lackner interviewed by Carly A. Krakow
Green Sukuk - The Future of Islamic Financing for Climate Change Adaptation (Podcast)
Aneil Tripathy, hosted by Huma Gupta and Bassam Haddad
COVID-19, Disease, and the Environment
We have published several pieces analyzing the connections between the COVID-19 pandemic, disease, and environmental issues. Each piece in this category is listed under another category above, but we have also grouped them here to offer readers a collection of works that address this set of topics.
Michael Christopher Low, Imperial Mecca: Ottoman Arabia and the Indian Ocean Hajj (New Texts Out Now)
Michael Christopher Low
Quick Thoughts: Carly A. Krakow on the COVID-19 Pandemic and Environmental Racism
Carly A. Krakow
Water Scarcity, Climate Change, and COVID-19 in Yemen: An Interview with Helen Lackner
Helen Lackner interviewed by Carly A. Krakow
Middle East History in the Time of COVID-19: A Roundtable on Disease, Environment, and Medicine
Joelle Abi-Rached, A. Tylor Brand, Christopher Rose, Seçil Yılmaz, and the Environment Page Editors
The Campaign to Eradicate Smallpox in Monarchic Iraq
Sara Farhan and Huma Gupta
In Solidarity
Jadaliyya Environment Page Co-Editors Statement in Support of Samer Alatout
Media Roundups
Environment Page Extended Media Roundup (January-February 2021)
Environment Page Extended Media Roundup (November-December 2020)
Environment Page Extended Media Roundup (September-October 2020)
Environment Page Extended Media Roundup (May-August 2020)
Environment Page Extended Media Roundup (January-March 2020)