Bassam Haddad is Founding Director of the Middle East and Islamic Studies Program and Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government at George Mason University. He is the author of Business Networks in Syria: The Political Economy of Authoritarian Resilience (Stanford University Press, 2011) and co-editor of A Critical Political Economy of the Middle East (Stanford University Press, 2021). Bassam is Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya Ezine and Executive Director of the Arab Studies Institute. He serves as Founding Editor of the Arab Studies Journal and the Knowledge Production Project. He is co-producer/director of the award-winning documentary film, About Baghdad, and director of the acclaimed series Arabs and Terrorism. Bassam is Executive Producer of Status Podcast Channel and Director of the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). He received MESA's Jere L. Bacharach Service Award in 2017 for his service to the profession. Currently, Bassam is working on his second Syria book titled Understanding The Syrian Tragedy: Regime, Opposition, Outsiders (forthcoming, Stanford University Press).
Emergency Teach-In:
Celebrating the IDF
The Most Moral Army in History
Featuring
Sinan Antoon, Cultural Landscape Specialist
Adel Iskandar, Media Landscape Specialist
Bassam Haddad, Social Science Specialist
Never miss an opportunity to target civilians
immediately call ٢٤٢
Hands down (if they leave you any), there are no words to describe the grandeur of the most moral army in the history of the world. The mere mention of the acronym IDF (I have goosebumps as I type these letter. Hang on….) induces tears of moral joy as the images of its daily moral actions grace our screens. Image after image, blown up body after mutilated body, the name Israel Defense Forces will enter history as the epitome of refined humanity and facial mutilation from white phosphorous. How can you go wrong with a state like Israel, a funding state like the US and a historically moral state like Germany? Just think of this trio and their past unending moral orgies….the massacres, the destruction, the extermination, the killing, the ethnic cleansing, the displacement, the destruction, the invasions and the final glory of exquisite genocidal intent and execution. Yet, the IDF emerges as the most moral of them all.
Never miss an opportunity to avoid combatants
Featuring
Sinan Antoon is a poet, novelist, scholar and translator. He has published five novels and two collections of poetry. A third collection of poetry in English, entitled Postcards from the Underworld, was published by Seagull Books this past October. He has been described as one of the most acclaimed Arab novelists. His most recent work in Arabic is a novel entitled, Khuzama
His literary translations from Arabic include Saadi Youssef’s Nostalgia; My Enemy and Mahmoud Darwish’s In the Presence of Absence which won the National Translation Award given by the American Literary Translators Association. His scholarly works include the book, Ibn al-Hajjaj and Sukhf: The Poetics of the Obscene in Pre-Modern Arabic Poetry. He is associate professor at New York University. He is co-founder and co-editor of Jadaliyya.
Adel Iskandar is an Associate Professor of Global Communication at Simon Fraser University, where he is the Director of the Centre for Comparative Muslim Studies and the Chair of Graduate Studies in the School of Communication. He is the author, co-author and co-editor of numerous works including Edward Said: A Legacy of Emancipation and Representation(University of California Press, 2010). Iskandar is a Co-Editor of Jadaliyya.