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Far and away the most popular sport in the world, football has a special place in Middle Eastern societies, and for Middle Eastern states. With Qatar hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup, this region has been cast into the global footballing spotlight, raising issues of geopolitical competition, cons..

This book is the product of a two-year research initiative supported by the Center for International and Regional Studies (CIRS) at Georgetown University in Qatar. The stated aim of the project at the time was “to provide original academic insight ..

During the height of the mass uprisings against authoritarian rule, excitement about the prospects for a more just and representative political order across the Arab region was often tempered by questions concerning the role that Islamist parties would play in post-authoritarian transitions. Mov..

During the height of the mass uprisings against authoritarian rule, excitement about the prospects for a more just and representative political order across the Arab region was often tempered by questions concerning the role that Islamist parties would play in post-authoritarian transitions. Mov..

While the 'Islamist idea' will likely endure, the political actors face an existential struggle to survive the onslaught of the past decade

Last year, Lebanon held its first parliamentary election in nearly a decade. Following years of political gridlock that featured the collapse of multiple cabinets, saw the country without a president for over two years, and included the momentary resignation of its prime minister as he was being..

In the following interview conducted on 18 October 2018, NPR-affiliate WNYC Studios interviewed Abdullah al-Arian as part of their On the Media show. The segment focused on al-Arian's 2017 Jadaliyya article “Seventy Years of the New York Times Describing Saudi Royals as Reforme..

In honor of Thomas Friedman's latest love letter to Al Saud, the ruling dynasty in Saudi Arabia, here is seventy years worth of the New York Times describing the royal family as reformers.

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As Muslim communities in the United States and around the world confront the terrifying prospects that a Donald Trump presidency holds for their lives and liberties, a long-simmering conflict within the American political establishment has reached its boiling point. Recent policy debates s..

Abdullah Al-Arian, a founding editor of Jadaliyya`s Critical Currents in Islam page, discusses his new book, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat`s Egypt, and how..

Abdullah Al-Arian, Answering the Call: Popular Islamic Activism in Sadat’s Egypt. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Abdullah Al-A..

Just after dawn prayers on the morning of 14 August 2013, Egyptian security forces raided a large sit-in based at Cairo’s Rabaa al-Adawiyya Square and another at al-Nahda Square. Six weeks earlier, military l..

On the surface, the scene unfolds without any hint of intrigue. A young Muslim convert named Darren Griffin meets fellow congregants at a local mosque in northwest Ohio. In addition to sharing the same faith as his new friends, they enjoy similar interests: watching sports, playing video games, ..

This Ramadan, many American Muslim leaders are anxiously awaiting to hear whether they have made the cut for the annual White House Iftar. An invitation to this iftar, as with similar events the <..

Introduction (by Abdullah Al-Arian, Roundtable Organizer and Co-Editor of Critical Currents in Islam Page)

The Arab uprisings that began in late 2010 had barely claimed a single authoritarian ruler when many observers..

[The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting an “Ess..

Abdel Mawgoud al-Dardery describes himself as “an academician by profession and a politician by necessity.” He received his doctorate in cultural studies from the University of Pittsburg in 2000. He wrote his dissertation on the historical conflict between Eurocentrism and Islamism. Soon after r..

Return of the Brothers: Student Activism and Islamic Politics in 1970s Egypt

Co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Near Eastern Studies, the UCLA Department of History, and the Arab Studies Institute (ASI).

10 April 2013, 4:30 pm
10383 Bunche Hall,&n..

Abdel Moneim Abul Futuh was a leading candidate in the 2012 Egyptian presidential election held last May, garnering approximately seventeen percent of votes cast in the first round (compared to approximately twenty-four percent and twenty-three percent for the two eventual run-off candidates—Moh..