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I have written this book for three interrelated reasons. Firstly, the significant increase in the number of fictional works written about the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003, the aesthetic leaps these works are inducing in the history of fiction writing in Iraq..

This article proposes a new critical method in for the field of geography emerging from our collaborative study of the landscape in Palestine. We have been working for six years to elucidate landscape transformation within a community-based context. Along the way, we have dev..

On Sunday, 27 June Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Hanan Ashrawi in order to assess the current position and future options for the Palestinians as they confront both challenge and opportunity.  This episode of Connections Podcast will als..

Join us on Sunday, 27 June for a conversation with Hanan Ashrawi hosted by Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani for an assessment of the current position and future options for the Palestinians as they confront both challenge and opportunity.  This episode of Connections Podcast will also ..

In 2015, we were seven Algerian photographers invited to a photography festival in Algiers. We were all disappointed and angry about what was presented there. It was clear to us that as individual photographers we were moving in directions that are completely different from mainstream photograph..

“Revolution is mankind's way of life today. This is the age of revolution; the 'age of indifference' is gone forever. But the latter age paved the way for today; for the great masses of mankind, while still suffering the greatest oppression and the g..

On a small terrace in Marseille, I met Safia Delta for the first time in working to complete my project Dry*. I asked to meet her because I consider her to be like me—a person containing an identity that is "multiple," as the Lebanese author Amin Maalouf describes it. Safia is from two ..

[City Talks provides a platform for conversations around the social, political, economic, cultural, and environmental transformations that define the historical and contemporary geographies of the Middle East and beyond. Bringing together voices from critical scho..

There is a lively debate in urban studies nowadays about the Eurocentricity of the field’s canonical theories. The efforts to trace new geographies of theory are heterodox and heterogeneous, but they have often relied on postcolonial thought and its critique of the universal histories and catego..

As Mark Twain wrote on New Year’s Day in 1863, “Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.” Before readers embark on that treacherous path, Jadaliyya Culture offers a selection of 2013 highlights for a preem..

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The Zionist guns trained in our direction were not a mere physical barrier: they were a lethal reminder that our city, for us, was to be now no more than a memory; a dream that we were now back to zero. Enjoy the view if you can, in the midst of the homeless thousands. But you’ve been plucke..

Commemoration of the tenth anniversary of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq by those responsible for waging it has taken largely unapologetic form. Donald Rumsfeld tweeted about the “long, difficult work of liberating 2..

Shadow Sites:

Recent Work by Jananne Al-Ani

August 25, 2012—February 10, 2013

Arthur M. Sackler Gallery,

Smithsonian Institution

Three recent video installations by Iraqi-born artist Jananne Al-Ani are currently on view at the Arthur M. Sackle..

In early August 2012, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas vowed to renew the United Nations statehood bid in September:

"Even if this step conflicts with other parties` interests … [W]e will not step back. . . . Israel neither halted settlement activities,..

Susan Sontag, Promised Lands. Poland/France, 1974.

Groupe Cinéma Vincennes, L’Olivier. France/Palestine, 1976.

Mike Hoolboom, Lacan Palestine. Canada, 2012.

In 1973, Susan Sontag, the visual critic and essayist, traveled t..

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had..

Confession: the images of the carnage in Houla did not move me like they seem to have moved the rest of the world. Yes, they were tragic, horrific acts of violence against the most innocent of victims. But they didn’t break anything inside of me that was not already broken, nor did they raise th..