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Join academics, activists, and educators to discuss how we organize workers across positions in higher education and K-12 in advance of the school year to push back..

Long Form Podcast
(Episodes 7, 8, & 9)

Join our first session of “Teaching Palestine Today” series. This session addresses the “Liberal Arts Context,” with Lara Deeb, Heather Ferguson, Amanda Lagji, and Leila Mansouri

Every year, Ghent University awards the Amnesty International Chair to a person who makes a special contribution in the field of human rights. The laureate gives a public lecture at Ghent University and additional guest lectures for students. This year laureate of the Amnesty International Chair..

In this sit down conversation with Bassam Haddad and Sinan Antoon, Talal Asad takes a bird’s eye look at the political landscape since Israel’s genocidal war agains..

The assault on academic freedom is intensifying on University campuses. This series takes note of cases of defamation, intimidation, and suspension that faculty are being subjected to in the United States and beyond. We aim to raise awaren..

In this panel six professors from the Gaza Strip discuss their efforts to sustain higher education in the face of genocide and scholasticide. Our guests will also address avenues for rebuilding higher education in Gaza as well as the sorts of contributions others can make.

This conversation will address the ratcheting up of repression we witness in academia and on campus as the fall semester commences. Our guest will also identify and examine and the organizational infrastructure driving this escalation in an attempt to stifle, silence, and criminalize objec..

In this fifth installment, our guests discuss their recent scholarship about the current assault on U.S. higher education by right-wing and Zionist institutions, including the targeted harassment of faculty and students expressing support for Palestine amidst Israel's ongoing Genocide..

What is a Palestinian and Arab feminist approach to academic freedom in the context of acute violence and global repression? This panel brings together Palestinian and Arab feminist scholars in the US academy at various stages in their careers to address the concern over academic freedom a..

Severe limitations on academic freedom for Palestinian scholars in Israeli universities are directly tied to the wider project of targeting Palestinian education. We address the Israeli academy's repression of Palestinian critical research and pedagogy, in light of the arrest of Hebrew Universit..

We, the undersigned faculty and staff of different backgrounds and political viewpoints from Universities across the DC, Maryland, and Virginia area, come together to support the student protests and encampment at George Washington University. 

The assault on academic freedom is growing on University campuses. We are launching this series to address the cases of defamation, intimidation, and suspension that faculty are being subjected to in the United States and beyond. This series aims to raise awareness of the conditions and pretense..

In this second installment, we host two faculty members who have been suspended/fired for their support of Palestine during Israel’s ongoing Genocide in Gaza. They will tell their own story and address the context of their scholarship and ..

The Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) brings you this bouquet of pieces, including peer-reviewed articles, on, or by, Edward Said. These items in our database were published in peer-reviewed academic journals for the years 1979-2021. For more bouquets, visit www.mespi.org.

In this first installment of a new series, "In Defense of Academic Freedom", we host faculty members who have been suspended or placed on administrative leave for their support of Palestine during Israel’s ongoing Genocide in Gaza. They will tell their own story and address the context of their ..

The MESA Global Academy offers competitive fellowships to Middle East Studies scholars from the MENA region who are currently displaced. The Global Academy awards $5,000 scholarships and faciliates programming for its fellows, including speaking engagements at partner universities across the Uni..

February 5 of this year marked the ninth anniversary of Dr. Sami Al-Arian leaving the US for Turkey after living in America for 4 decades. It was the culmination of a 12 year saga that started in 2003 when he was targeted and arre..