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The U.S-Israeli killing machine has now extended its reach to Iran—and it is with profound grief that we write these words. This latest escalation unfolds alongside the ongoing genocide in Gaza and the broader Israeli campaign of war, starvation, siege, destruction, and displacement, materially ..

The quest for a sense of self dominated much of contemporary Arab thought in general and contemporary Arab philosophy in particular. The search for a thought of one’s own that positions the self vis-à-vis the dominating West had become a major preoccupation in the second half of the nineteenth c..

The revolutionary impulse of the 2011 Arab uprisings led me to a past moment of revolution—the Great Syrian Revolt of 1925. In the summer of 2011, I was preparing to do fieldwork on a project on gender and education in the Ottoman Levant when the start of the Syrian uprising prevented travel to ..

First, there is an intrinsic value in studying Taha’s general philosophy and its ethical foundations, since he offers a promising alternative to the trends that have dominated Arab and Muslim philosophical thought in the last century.

The book is actually the third volume of a book series called the “History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps,” which is based on a podcast of the same name that I have been running since 2010. The books are basically a revised version of the scripts I wrote for th..

This article grew out of my broader research on transnational and Syrian-Lebanese diasporic engagement with the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927. The particular focus on the spread of the revolt to Rashaya in southern Lebanon and its transnational connections became obviou..

This event is in conjunction with the Society for Middle Eastern and North African Philosophers. The aim of the conference is to bring together MENA theorists to promote contemporary MENA theory, debate the racialization of and violence against MENA peoples, as well as providing a regular space ..

I have been following Larissa Sansour’s films for years now. I adore her sense of humor. With that being said, her more recent film trilogy (A Space Exodus 2008, Nation Estate 2012 and In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain, 2015)..

Hamid Dabashi, Can Non-Europeans Think? Chicago: University of Chicago Press and London: Zed Books, 2015.

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

Hamid Dabashi (HD): This book is the most ..

 September 2014, Copenhagen

This week we feature Danish filmmaker and artist Soren Thilo Funder. Funder likes to make films about films and the..

This is the second installment of a two-part interview with Wael Hallaq (click here for Part 1). In this second, Hallaq expounds upon the conflict he sees in the relationship between scho..

Throughout the last three decades, Wael Hallaq has emerged as one of the leading scholars of Islamic law in Western academia. He has made major contributions not only to the study of the theory and practice of Islamic law, but to the development of a methodology through which Islamic scholars..

The University of Chicago Shi`i Studies Group presents

A Shi`i Studies Symposium: "Reason an Esotericism in Shi`i Islam"

4 April 2014, 8.45am - 6:00pm Coulter Lounge, International House, 1414 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL

[This report was originally published as "Qatar: Unpaid migrant construction workers left to go hungry" by Amnesty International

This interview is part of a longer one conducted with 

[The following is the latest from the Applied Research Center (ARC) on the intersections of immigration enforcement and the child welfare system in the United States.]

Shattered Families: The Perilous Intersection of Immigration Enforcement and the Child Welfare System

Pal Ahuluwalia. Out of Africa: Post-Structuralism’s Colonial Roots. New York: Routledge, 2010.

Jane Goodman and Paul A. Silverstein (eds). Bourdieu in Algeria: Colonial Politics, Ethnographic Practices, T..