Noted with Noura Erakat
A Jadaliyya Podcast Series
Episode 1 | Tuesday, 6 October | 1 pm EST
Join us on Tuesday, 6 October, at 1 pm EST for the first episode of Noted, a monthly Jadaliyya podcast organized by Co-Editor Noura Erakat. It highlights five significant pieces published on the platform every month, often with guest authors. The podcast will serve as a curated monthly roundup of noteworthy Jadaliyya content, drawing attention to pieces that deserve a wider audience and encouraging listeners to visit the website and engage with the full publication. The podcast will often invite authors or organizers involved. This month’s pieces include the following:
Featured Content on this Episode of Noted
"The Political Economy of the War on Iran: An Interview with Adam Hanieh"
"The Ground Beneath The Crop: Agrarian Erasure in Southern Lebanon" (Parts 1-3) by Ghida Krisht and Mohamad Baqer elHarake
"Denaturalization in Kuwait Roundtable: Understanding Citizenship" (Parts 1-5) by Claire Beaugrand, Alex Boodrookas, Ali M, and Saher Sawdawi
"When Reconstruction Becomes War Governance in Gaza" by Manal Zia
"The Fate of Mossadegh in Contemporary Nationalism: Revisiting a Contest over Memory" by Amin Bozorgiyan
Featuring
Noura Erakat is Professor of Africana Studies and Criminal Justice at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. She is the author of Justice for Some: Law and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2019), which received the Palestine Book Award and the Bronze Medal for the Independent Publishers Book Award in Current Events/Foreign Affairs. Her forthcoming book, Confronting ZIonism: Decolonizing Palestine and Building the World Anew co-authored with John Reynolds will be out with Haymarket in November 2025. In 2023, Noura co-chaired an Independent Task Force on the Application of National Security Memorandum-20 to Israel, a report documenting how U.S. arms to Israel have been used in violation of U.S. and international law and which was submitted to the White House. She is co-founding editor of Jadaliyya and an editorial board member of the Journal of Palestine Studies as well as Human Geography. She is a co-founding board member of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival. She has served as Legal Counsel for a Congressional Subcommittee in the US House of Representatives, as Legal Advocate for the Badil Resource Center for Palestinian Refugee and Residency Rights, and as National Organizer and Legal Advocate of the US Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation. Noura has also produced video documentaries, including "Gaza In Context" and "Black Palestinian Solidarity.” Noura completed a non-resident fellowship of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard Divinity School as well as a Mahmoud Darwish Visiting Professorship at Brown University. In 2022, she was selected as a Freedom Fellow by the Marguerite Casey Foundation. In 2025, the University of Ghent awarded the Amnesty International Chair in recognition of her contribution to human rights and scholarship. In 2026, the University of Antwerp awarded her an honorary doctorate for her scholarship and advocacy.