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I wrote this book for a few reasons. As an academic contribution, I wanted to use the case of Palestine—specifically, the occupied West Bank following the Oslo Accords—to generate a new theory about the effects of indirect rule on indigenous politics at the loc..

The Bogazici University resistance is bound to acquire a unique place in history for being one of the longest uninterrupted struggles for academic freedom and university autonomy ever to be waged. Hundreds of Bogazici faculty members have been resisting the take-over of the university by the Tur..

The new government of Israel – sworn in on 29 December 2022 – has made explicit the coalition parties’ long-standing intent to further entrench Jewish supremacy and Palestinian repression throughout the State of Israel and the occupied West Bank through a two-tiered system of governance on all l..

In 2019 the Dutch government, for the second time within a decade, acquired an Israeli wiretapping system for its police forces. While the purchase made few headlines at the time, and even though the system is still not operational, it has sparked renewed scrutiny and criticism as revelations ab..

On 23 March 2021 Israel conducted its fourth election within two years, which again produced an inconclusive result. After Benjamin Netanyahu and his Likud party failed to cobble together a parliamentary majority that would extend his twelve-year run as prime minister, a disparate coalition of e..

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After days of protests, Lebanon’s government has resigned following the devastating explosion at the Port of Beirut that killed 200 people and injured thousands. The port blast, the source of which was 2,700 tons of highly explosive ammonium nitrate left unattended in a warehouse for more than s..

Nearly three decades after Omar Al Bashir came to power, the Sudanese regime is facing a formidable challenge posed by a fresh wave of unrest, which started in the northeastern city of Atbara on December 19. Protests which first erupted over a government decision to triple the price of bread hav..

Five months have passed since caretaker Prime Minister Saad Hariri was nominated to form a new government. Since then, he has struggled to strike a balance between domestic and regional interests. While it might take some time for ostensibly disparate interests to align, once formed, the forthco..

Around 9 p.m. on 4 December 2017, two FBI documents were delivered to the defense teams representing the five Guantánamo detainees on trial in the military commissions for their alleged roles in the 11 September 2001, terrorist attacks. These documents, which the lawyers had been requesting sinc..

The capital of Iraqi Kurdistan, Erbil (Hawler in Kurdish), with its 1.5 million residents, plus a large number of Syrian refugees and displaced persons from the nearby Mosul region, have been going through a development boom since 2003, a date that marks the end of Saddam Hussein’s regi..

[The following written statement and video was issued by the Lebanese band Mashrou` Leila on 13 June 2017 in response to news that the the Jordanian government had officially cancelled their 27 June 2017 ..

Why local tribal calculations will determine what happens outside Syria’s heartland.

With much of the world’s attention on western Syria, especially the fighting in Aleppo, there has been less interest in eastern Syria, much of whose..

On the morning of Sunday 25 September 2016, a gunman shot Jordanian writer and opposition figure Nahed Hattar outside of the Jordanian Palace of Justice. At the request of Prime Minister Hani al-Mulki, the government accused Hattar of “inciting sectarian strife” and “insulting religion” and issu..

Sean Yom, From Resilience to Revolution (Columbia, 2015); Suzanne Maloney,

Throughout the Second World War, Britain’s Ministry of Information (MOI) produced and disseminated a remarkable assortment of propaganda material in Arabic. The material that it produced was intended to counter pro-Axis sentiment in the Ar..

[The following statement was issued by the Lebanese band Mashrou` Leila on 26 April 2016 in response to news that the the Jordanian government had officially cancelled th..

Mona Harb and Sami Atallah, editors, Local Governments and Public Goods: Assessing Decentralization in the Arab World. Beirut..

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On 2 June 2013, a Jordanian news website employee contacted Ahmed Theban, a columnist for Jordan’s al-Rai newspaper. The purpose of the call was to ask Theban to recommend a collea..

The following trailer is for Laura Poitras` Citizefour, which is scheduled for release on 24 October 2014.
 

 
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Yesterday the Jordanian Media Commission blocked access to 7iber.org, the alternate domain we have been using for the past year after the Jordanian government first blocked 7iber.com along with around two hundred other websites based on the amended Press and Publication Law.

Despite the ba..