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United States Representative Elise Stefanik powerful questioning of three top University Presidents compelled us into deep introspection and reflection on the meaning of “Intifada,” which she invoked as a call for Genocide. Join Arabic language expert Sinan Antoon, media expert Adel Iskandar, an..

In 2010, Qatar, somewhat improbably, won the hosting rights for the 2022 World Cup for soccer, and almost immediately began to build stadia and infrastructure for the games, channeling hundreds of billions of dollars to reinvent itself as a global destination f..

The Islamicate Graduate Student Association invites papers for our 18th Annual Duke-UNC Conference, one of the longest running graduate student Middle East & Islamic Studies conferences in the U.S. This year’s conference, “What Does Race Have to Do with Religion? Racialization and Worldwide ..

This roundtable delves into several different topics regarding the mutual interrelationship between COVID-19 and social mobilization: Algeria (Muriam Haleh Davis and Thomas Serres), Iraq (Zahra Ali), Lebanon (Nadim El Kak), higher education in the US (Anthony Alessandrini, Kylie Broderick, and t..

“If I do not come back, do not forget to give her medicine by break of fast,” Walid Kechida, twenty-five, told a friend who stayed with his widowed mother while he went to a nearby police station in Setif, some 270 kilometers east of Algiers, one night in Ramadan. Kechida had already been summon..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 12 February 2020 in response to the US De..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 27 January 2020 in response to the US Depa..

On marching, hunger strikes, and tennis rackets.

In the wake of the murderous attacks in Paris, we can expect western heads of state to do what they always do in such circumstances: declare total and unremitting war on those who brought it about. They don’t actually mean it. They’ve..

Since 20 July, when a suicide bomber in the town of Suruç killed thirty-two socialist activists on their way to help rebuild Kobanê in northern Syria, Turkey has devolved into a de facto state of emergency. While Turkish police began operations across the country and have arrested approximately ..

The debate

[In view of Israel`s assertions that it has not occupied the Gaza Strip since 2005, Jadaliyya re-posts an analysis of this claim authored by Lisa Hajjar, initially published in 2012.]

Yes, the Gaza Strip is still occupied. Despite

On the fourth day of..

HOW LONG DOES A TRANSITION LAST?

Do not write history in verse

                  Mahmoud Darwish

Afterwards we shall sit on the ground to read all their hearts

as though we were reading the history of the world for ..

There is no need to beat around the bush and no need to preach to the choir about this subject, about which so much has already been written. The thesis of “humanitarian intervention,” also known as “military humanism”—which consists of the argument that when faced with grave human violations co..

As a direct result of relying on outmoded dogmas, the leadership of the Muslim Brotherhood backed the movement into a lose/lose corner. On one hand, steadfastly refusing to end its sit-ins led to a bloody defeat and possibly further alienation from mainstream Egyptian opinion on the other, even ..

[The following press release was issued by the below listed signatories via the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR) on 15 August 2013.]

Press Release: Non-Peaceful Assembly Does Not ..

[The following statement was issued by the below signatories and published by the Cairo Institute for Human Rights Studies on 25 July 2013.]

"Combating Terrorism" Does Not Justify an Extralegal Mandate

In mid-1861, Saeed Pasha, the ruler of Egypt, issued a Sovereign Decree to all police chiefs replacing the penalty of beating with imprisonment. Accordingly, regulations were issued stating that since 

penalties in the form of beatings of some criminals are intended to onc..

Regrettably, states’ power to protect themselves and to ensure impunity has continued to grow in recent years. This paper discusses two recent examples of this political trend: the far-reaching reaction to Judge Baltasar Garzon’s legal decision not to apply the 1977 Spanish Amnesty Law to crimes..

Udi Aloni is a well-known Israeli filmmaker, theatre director, writer and activist, whose most recent work includes films such as Forgiveness, Local Angel, and Kashmir: Journey to Freedom. Columbia University Press just published his new book, W..

This contribution shall deal with a number of topics having in common an emotion, a biblical story, and a painter. Its challenging title is not meant to exhaust the issue but rather to raise questions about the place individual and social “guilt” hold in a set of symbolic or real cases. For this..

Although education reform is a hallmark of the Obama presidency, we have just witnessed the largest cuts ever to the US Department of Education’s international education programs. In 2009, Obama and his Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, announced Race to the ..

Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights ..