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An editor from Oxford University Press contacted me about the possibility of editing a handbook on the history of modern Egypt. Given the years that had passed since the appearance of the classic Cambridge volumes on Egyptian history, there was clearly room and..

Our plan to co-edit this book came from a desire to provide an initial account of the historic events of October 2019 through the voices of some of its protagonists. 

On Monday, 9 August Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani  spoke with leading economist Jeffrey Sachs about the challenges facing the globe during this pivotal decade. As the world remains mired in the CO..

Join us on Monday, 9 August for a conversation with leading economist Jeffrey Sachs hosted by Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani about the challenges facing the globe during this pivotal decade. As the world remains mired in the COVID-19 pandemic, the existential dangers of climate chang..

Emad Effat would have probably been a name known internationally to very few for much of his life. He didn't seek the spotlight, and he was content to fulfil his duties as a respected Azhari religious scholar. But when he died - when he was murdered - at the end of 2011 in Egypt, his memory beca..

My research examines debates among sanitary engineers in Cairo during the British colonial period. These debates are important for two main reasons. First, they enrich our understanding of the hierarchies of colonial Cairo by highlighting their manifestations in everyday life. Second, they give ..

My plan for this edited book was the result of three factors. The first factor relates to the time I was conducting research for my doctoral dissertation in different archival locations and libraries in the United States and the United Kingdom, and particularly durin..

The idea of the book came from a workshop I attended and co-directed in Cambridge two years ago. The workshop was one of the Gulf Research Meetings and this one focused on the effects of the Syrian crisis on the Arab Gulf. During our discussion, the contributor..

Lebanese/American filmmaker Jude Chehab describes her experiences of the August 4th explosion in Beirut, recent protests in the city, and how these events lead her and others to organize grassroots rebuilding and transparent relief efforts in the Lebanese capital.

We are far from comprehending the full scale of potential harm to people’s lives and the economy due to the COVID-19 outbreak. In the complicated reality of Palestine/Israel, where the outbreak is just beginning, it requires a deeper analysis. We know from history that the poor and oppressed bea..

On Thursday 17 October 2019, thousands of exasperated Lebanese citizens took to the streets of Beirut in protest. The spark was the government’s latest plan to impose taxes on the popular and free app..

It was early 2009 and US Muslim communities were shocked into action by the murder of Aasiya Zubair, killed by her husband in a domestic violence (DV) crime that followed years of domestic abuse and her filing for divorce.

As an MA student, I took a class at the institut d'études scéniques, audiovisuelles et cinématographique, IESAV, at the Université Saint Joseph in 2008. The class was taught by the performance artist Lina Majdalanie, then known as Lina Saneh. I was very inspire..

The Muslim Brotherhood has been one of my research interests since I was a doctoral student, so the events of the Arab Spring in Egypt and across the Maghreb were especially interesting to me. A good amount of the existing literature, and certainly the popular media, tends to make sweeping..

Egypt as Effigy: Predatory Power, Hijacked History, and the Devolution of Revolution. Adel Iskandar argues that Egypt today is a replica of various historic Egypts, each manifesting as an effigy built for either public scrutiny or glorification.

The Modern Language Association (MLA) will be voting on a resolution calling for a boycott of Israeli academic institutions at its upcoming convention, to be held 5-8 January 2017 in Philadel..

Early on in Donald Trump’s bid to be the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States, he pledged to

US foreign policy is a danger to the United States and to the world, and it has been for some time. As President Dwight Eisenhower famously foretold in his farewell address of January 1961, the Military-Industrial Complex (..

Jeff Halper, War Against the People: Israel, the Palestinians and Global Pacification. London: Pluto Press, 2015.

Dew drops as dual use remote sensors; mechanized micro-drones the size of wasps wandering the skies; and cannons..

Jeffrey Sacks, Iterations of Loss: Mutilation and Aesthetic Form, al-Shidyaq to Darwish. New York: Fordham University Press, 2015.

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

Although there are periodic respites, the conflict in Tripoli, Lebanon has become almost routinized with sporadic outbreaks in clashes—some more intense than others. Coverage of “the conflict” has also become routinized, with bursts of reporting, some stronger than others. Gener..

Q: Why do you think Hamas didn`t accept the terms of the ceasefire?

Rashid Khalidi (RK): Hamas has insisted that there be a lasting resolution of the basic problem of Israel`s siege of Gaza,..