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Up until now, the history of slavery and the history of Iranian cinema have been considered distinct and largely unrelated subjects. One of the more idiosyncratic aspects of the book is the way in which it manages to address and reconceptualize these two topics..

During my first return to a Coptic Orthodox Church following a long pandemic-induced hiatus, a priest at a local parish in Ottawa, Canada, excitedly handed me a two-volume book titled Elements: The Transfiguration of Elijah, Earth & Water (volume I) and Wind & Fire (vol..

When approaching the academic literature on the politics of the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, there has been a constant attempt to reduce anything Libyan to Mu’ammar Qaddafi. The richness of Libya’s social, economic, political dynamics is obliterated, and presented a..

I wrote this book because it was a book I wanted to read. I came of age during a time when the images and discussions of Muslim women revolved around a trope of victimhood, and the urgency of international intervention in the region was a regular news headline...

Partners in life and art, Etel Adnan and Simone Fattal traveled the world in exile, searching for new landscapes and ideas. But the images they returned to again and again were rooted in the rust soils of Mount Lebanon, the cerulean horizon of the Mediterranean, and mythologies from Mesopotamia ..

In the summer of 2006, I decided to take a break from the Ottoman Archives and to visit the Sultantepe Özbekler Tekkesi, a Sufi lodge I had read about in hundreds of petitions and state-generated documents.

Lâle Can’s Spiritual Subjects: Central Asian Pilgrims and the Ottoman Hajj at the End of Empire is a meticulously researched and beautifully crafted book on the Central Asian hajj and Ottoman management of religious mobility. The subjects of the book are Muslim pilgrims from Russian an..

The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdown measures disrupted many aspects of social and economic life and imposed new social realities. Digital technologies provided alternative avenues for social interactions and became central features of the ‘New Normal’. Communities and p..

Արցախ / Qarabağ ihtilafının, yani “Güney Kafkasya” denilen coğrafyada, “Dağlık Karabağ” olarak adlandırılmış, kara ile çevrili bölge üzerindeki anlaşmazlığın kökenleri Sovyetlerin erken dönemine uzanır ve sömürgecilik ürünüdür. Dönemin Sovyetler Birliği uluslar halk komiseri Joseph Stalin, sosya..

The Essential Readings series is curated by the Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (MESPI) team at the Arab Studies Institute. MESPI invites scholars to contribute to our Essential Readings modules by submitting ..

ISLAM AND HUMANITARIANISM: INTERDISCIPLINARY INQUIRIES ON ISLAMIC FORMS OF AID 

The Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies
George Mason University, Fairfax, Virginia
November 1-2 2019

In this article, I show how feminist narratives on the significance of the Palestinian/Israeli feminist dialogue displaces the question of Palestine, shifting the focus from the settler-colonial nature of Israel to one of “conflict resolution” and “peace-building,” as if conflict takes place bet..

On June 24, Saudi Arabia, making a long-awaited change, officially lifted its ban on women driving. Yet for the past seven weeks, Hatoon al-Fassi, an internationally known scholar, professor and women’s rights advocate, has remained in detention, having been arrested just as she was preparing to..

Generally speaking, the word “culture” is often used interchangeably with the word “heritage,” or “lineage” to delineate something that has happened in the past instead of being considered for its scientific understanding as a mutation in progress. Here, culture is understood as a..

On 3 November 2017, Prime Minister of Lebanon Saad Hariri flew to Riyadh, from where he announced his resignation the very next day through the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya satellite news station. Speculations raged that he was forced to resign as his declarations was said to have taken even his close..

It seems that Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has enough friends to escape being cast into exile. Led by French President Emmanuel Macron (who had to fly to Saudi Arabia to secure the prime minister’s exit from the kingdom) and with the support of the United States, Hariri manage..

In this interview for STATUS/الوضع, host Khalil Bendib speaks with Miriyam Ao..

It was a “call for papers” like all others. “On behalf of the Turkish Political Economy Society (TPES),” said the organizers of the Fifth TPES Interdisciplinary Workshop on Turkey and Latin America in Comparative Perspective, “we would be happy if you would consider submitting an abstract and he..