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The first edition of this book appeared in 2010, on the eve of the momentous events that have since shaken the Arab region, from the massive popular revolts across countries to the Gaza war and the fall of the Assad regime. 

I see this collection as the antithesis of erasure. Sleeping in the Courtyard compiles creative work by contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. 

The inspiration for this book came from a desire to better understand the often controversial role that sexualities play in the context of MENA politics, religions, peoples, and lived experiences, including prejudices and discriminations. As much an effort of s..

Join us on Friday, 17 January for a conversation with Hrair Balian about the Carter post- presidency and the Middle East. This episode of Connections will discuss the initiatives and activities of Jimmy Carter and the Carter Center in the Middle East during his decades-long post-presidency.

This book was a collaborative project with the many contributors and which we worked on prior to the current genocide. 

After several years working and teaching in France, I felt, in the United States, more encouraged to develop an active research agenda focused on North African literature and cinema through a decolonial perspective. While acknowledging the legacies and traumas ..

Most Moroccans who do not perceive of themselves within the binaries of white vs. black will marvel at the above statement. The British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Reporter, a colonial tool that promoted a hierarchized idea of race, is a useful example of the precariousness of racial categ..

As an architect, I have always been captivated by the ways in which creative agents navigate diverse spatial environments, whether it be a gallery, a studio, the street, or a deserted urban landscape. However, it was my personal upbringing in Iran that served a..

When I first embarked on dissertational field research in the majority Kurdish town of Wan (Van) in eastern Turkey in the fall of 2011, I soon began working with a group of Kurdish women singers and poets.

As part of the current global commemorations of twenty years since the US-allied invasion and subsequent US occupation of Iraq, ASI and Georgetown University's CCAS are co-sponsoring a one day workshop on March 31, "

In March 2021, the Palestinian Feminist Collective issued a pledge affirming that Palestine is a feminist issue. The pledge offers a feminist critique of Zionist settler colonialism and emerges in a context of renewals of Palestinian feminist organizing in Palestine and throughout its dias..

In 2006, two years before I began my doctoral research, children’s literature in the Arab world underwent a serious revival as a result of the convergence of many sociopolitical factors related to publishing, prizing, and educational policy. My soon-to-be docto..

A healthy dose of gluttony and several unforeseen friendships. The book’s origins lie in a homestay I did more than a decade ago in Damascus. A few days in, I discovered that the father of the family was a mana’ish maker, dabbling sporadic..

I had been writing and lecturing about contemporary events for a while, and it had become clear to me that the American invasion and occupation of Iraq, on the one hand, and the Arab uprisings of 2010-11 on the other, had had a profound and possibly irrevocable..

My initial aim was to study the period between Alexander the Great and the coming of Islam. I wanted to understand the role played by Arabs in the conflict between Rome and Persia, a fundamental conflict that in many ways is still ongoing in the area that was t..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

Academics and students at Boğaziçi University responded with protest when President Erdoğan appointed Melih Bulu as the new rectorate. The protests of students were repressed violently and eleven students were imprisoned, and others put under house arrest. Since the 2016 coup att..

In this episode, Huma Gupta and guest host Camille Cole discuss Egypt’s occupation and the history of capitalism as both a social and an ecological process with Aaron Jakes.

In Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel, I argue that Arab Americans exist in a precarious position that I call hyper-in-visibility, a paradox of simultaneous hypervisibility and invisibility ..

Attending to the historical significance of the current protests makes clear the limitations of critical methods of analyses that are beholden to the ruptures and transformations that constitute European secularization and the emergence of left and liberal perspectives on politics therein. Howev..

Once a shipping container turned into an Israeli settlement caravan, later repurposed to be a Palestinian construction site office and now sawed into sections by Nida Sinnokrot, Jonah’s Whale dominates the room in which it sits. T..

Maghrebi literature is one of the most thematically, linguistically, and politically diverse literatures in the world. This diversity is due in no small part to the different geographies, cultures, and temporalities shaping Maghrebi literature. While much scholarship has focused on the Arabic wi..

In Money, Markets, and Monarchies (Cambridge University Press, 2018), Adam Hanieh examines how the six states of the Gulf Cooperation Council are powerfully shaping the political economy of the wider Middle East. Through unprecedented and fine-grained empirical research - encompassing s..

I have long felt that the nature of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) states is poorly understood in mainstream media commentary and in much of the political debate around the Middle East, often reduced simply to the Gulf’s oil and gas exports, ruling family intrigu..