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The entire globe stands behind Israel as it faces its most intractable existential crisis since it started ..

We set out to write an oral history of the Lebanese Civil War that specifically highlighted and underlined the multiple roles and experiences of women. Too often women are left out of histories of war. What the War Left Behind: ..

In this talk, Hesham Sallam will discuss his recent book Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022). The book offers a counterint..

The following conversation occurred across four time zones- Australia, California, Pakistan, and New York.  As 7 October approaches, we felt the twenty-one-year mark of the US invasion of Afghanistan demanded an entirely different kind of conversation. We endeavor to build anew solidarities acro..

Studies of the Kurds and their struggle for self-determination largely focus on nationalism and ethnic/minority relations within countries that Kurds are divided between (i.e., Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey). Most of these studies associate Kurdish political organizations in a given state to a b..

We are pleased to share this annual review of our Essential Readings (ER) series. Individual ERs serve as teaching and research resources a specific geographic, temporal, and/or thematic subject by providing annotated lists of key works on the subject. Be..

Amr Adly talks about his latest book, Cleft Capitalism: The Social Origins of Failed Market Making in Egypt, with Marc Lynch. The book explores why market-based economic development failed to meet exp..

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 ..

This Essential Reading is the “Egypt” installment of a focused series on “The Left" in the Middle East. Encompassing a broad range of entry points to researching and teaching the left, the series emphasizes communist and socialist components, while allowing authors to define the specific paramet..

Cleft Capitalism responds to one of the most ancient questions in scholarship on international political economy: Why does market-based development often fail to translate into actual improvements in the standards of living of the developing population?

It started with a policy report I wrote for Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) in 2013-2014 about reforming entrepreneurship ecosystems in Egypt and Tunisia after the 2011 revolutions. Extensive fieldwork in both countries ..

In a review published by Haaretz two months ago, liberal Zionist historian Adam Raz asked himself smugly: Why bother writing about an esoteric group of activists who have achieved so little? The book he discussed, The Independent Left in Israel, 1967-1993, deals with a small gr..

EP3 - Chapter 8: The Rise of the Arab American Left

Morocco has long enjoyed a reputation as one of the most progressive countries in the Arabic-speaking world. When protests swept the Middle East and North Africa in 2011, many observers spoke of the “Moroccan exception” and the “Moroccan model,” citing a series of apparently liberalizing reforms..

This interjection makes no claim to an exhaustive account of recent events, but has been conceived with an eye to supplementing nuanced commentaries and penetrating delineations of Iran’s post-revolutionary political economy, and to sharpen reflection on both the imperial context of the recent p..

My motivation for writing Why Alliances Fail came from a personal experience, rather than a strictly academic one. Witnessing this experience while working overseas in the Arab world motivated my book’s central puzzle.

What is the relationship between energy transitions and struggles for emancipation, democracy, decolonization, and redistribution? Recent events–such as efforts to thwart the DAPL and Kinder Morgan pipelines, the anti-fracking movement, the battle for Puerto Rico’s energy future in the aftermath..

Cambrigde
12- 14 April 2018

Why is there as yet no reader or anthology of Arab leftist thought in Engli..

The following interview aired live on Wednesday 21 December 2016 on the UPFRONT show of KPFA (Pacfica Radio San Francisco and Oakland). The episode takes the recent developents in Aleppo as the launch point to discuss dynamics in Syria. The episode features Jadaliyya Co-Editor&..

Talking about Syria 

Civil wars generate their own momentum. They go through different phases and produce different leaderships and warlords. The Lebanese civil war makes for a good academic comparison with the current Syrian war in that internal and external a..

In the interest of full disclosure: on 8 November, Election Day in the United States, I wrote a short piece intended to be part of the roundup of responses to the elections by Jadaliyya

Left-Wing Trends in the Arab World (1948-1979):
Bringing The Transnational Back in

12-13 December
Orient-Institut Beirut

Gilbert Achcar, Abdulnabi Alekry, Haggag Ali, Abdulsalam Alrubaidi, Anne-Linda Amira Augustin, Orit Bashkin, Dalal al-Bizri, Michaelle Browers, M..

The State of Myth has lowered its curtains. The state-sponsored Iraqi television series, which introduced itself to the world with a musical trailer featurin..