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Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

Artistically and intellectually sophisticated, The Dawn is Too Far contributes to our understanding of the Iranian diaspora without claiming to represent its full range or complexity. The focus on a small circle of Bay Area Iranians leaves out America’s largest Iranian community, which ..

Palestine is a litmus test. If the AHA council refuses to recognize a genocide that has played out live on the internet, that has been condemned in the court of global opinion (and in global courts), and which their membership overwhelmingly opposes, how can we, queer and trans scholars, expect ..

[This interview was originally published by Democracy Now! on 06 January 2025. To view the original article click here.]

I began this book eight years ago at the intersection of my observations within the American Jewish community and my own scholarly interests. I had long seen American Jewish community leaders and laypeople marginalize American Jews who dissented from unconditio..

Join us on Wednesday, 13 March for a conversation with Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani and Chris Gunness about UNRWA and the campaign against it led by Israel and the United States. This episode of Connections will examine the allegations against the Agency, the agenda of its critics, and the ..

We wrote this report to challenge the erasure of Arab Americans in nearly every area of society striving for diversity and racial justice. For too long, Arab Americans have been positioned between hypervisibility (singled out through racial profiling and discri..

Palestinians have long conceived their liberation struggle as a transnational, anti-colonial movement that must necessarily build alliances with other marginalized and displaced peoples. The Americas – North, South and Central – constitute one of the key sites of this struggle, not least due to ..

Back in 1996, as a graduate student in anthropology in New York, I procrastinated my schoolwork by answering an email posted by a lawyer from Catholic Charities looking for a volunteer Arabic interpreter. She asked me to go with her to an immigration detention center..

But US has always escaped these charges in contemporary military conflicts –particularly in the killing fields of Afghanistan and Iraq –and also in the use of American weapons in Yemen where thousands have been killed.

Beginning on June 15th, the American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. This is a discussion of frequently asked questions about the academic boycott and the stakes of the resolution put before AAA members.

Beginning on June 15th, the American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic boycott of Israeli institutions. Join us for a discussion of frequently asked questions about the academic boycott and the stakes of the resolution put before AAA members.

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting 15 June. Watch this discussion on how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonization, demilit..

The American Anthropological Association will be voting on a resolution to endorse the academic Boycott of Israeli academic institutions, starting June 15th.  Join us for a discussion of how the Palestinian BDS movement is embedded in and builds with transnational movements for decolonizat..

I wrote Possible Histories for two interrelated reasons. First, I wanted to understand the paradox at the heart of how early Arab American history has been narrated, particularly in community narratives and some early Arab American studies..

We are excited to announce the launch of Publishers’ Roundtable, a new project from the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI). In each installment, we will bring publishers together to discuss new and emerging trends in Middle East knowledge pr..

At Columbia University, I trained as an American historian with a secondary field in modern Jewish history. I began teaching at Hampshire College in the late 1970s and developed a course on the history of Zionism.

The driving motivation for the project of building a reader for the field arose from our desire to provide scholars with the reader that we wished had existed—to support our research and later our teaching—as we were entering academia.

This anthology explores the human cost of the many interventions on foreign soil, with stories by writers from affected countries- covering everything from torture in Abu Ghraib, to coups and counterrevolutionary wars in Latin America and all-out invasions in the Middle and Far East. Alongside t..

I took it on as a favor for a dying friend. Michael Suleiman called me just days before his death and asked me to finish the editing for him.

The US military withdrawal from Afghanistan was an execution of the 2020 peace deal the Trump administration negotiated with the Taliban. The rapid fall of the country to the Taliban and President Ashraf Ghani’s decision to flee on 16 August 2021 brought an abrupt, ugly and yet unsurprising end ..

In a series of unprecedented moves, President Biden has included six Arab Americans in his administration;

By nightfall on 3 November 2020, the United States appeared to be heading towards a second term of Donald Trump. The “blue wall” that Joe Biden worked to reconstruct had seemingly crumbled at his feet, and Rust Belt states like Michigan and Wisconsin beamed a deep shade of red from the electoral..