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The book is an attempt to understand a central tension in Saudi society since the rise of King Salman and his son, Crown Prince Muhammad. From 2017, both the King and the Crown Prince began to introduce social reforms such as allowing women to drive, abolishing..

Al-Madaq is a public-history website on modern Cairo that presents historical research to a broad audience and creates free online tools for scholarship. It features an open access cartographic archive that contains some of the city’s most sig..

Ramadan in Algeria, like in most Arab countries, is more than a month of fasting and feasting. It is the prime season during which TV programmes compete and thrive. Each year, TV channels offer an abundance of exclusive and newly released programmes. These range from drama series (musalsalāt..

Since I submitted the first edition of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel for publication ..

This is a multi-disciplinary edited book, with contributors exploring the challenges facing Saudi Arabia under the leadership of newly crowned King Salman ibn Abdulaziz (who assumed the throne following the death of Abdullah in 2015). In the introduction of the book,..

Presentation on domestic mobilization and how it influences Saudi regional politics by Dr. Madawi Al-Rasheed at the Asfari Institute for Civil Society & Citizenship, at the American University of Beirut.

[The following report was published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 24 April 2017.]

Oman: Internal Security Service Continues Systematic Targeting..

One year ago, my mother came to my house for a visit. She was late. We sat together on a mattress. She opened her cigarette pack, took out two cigarettes, and we smoked together. It was hot that day.

She told me that she just returned from the doctor. She wanted to tell me t..

Madawi Al-Rasheed, Muted Modernists: The Struggle over Divine Politics in Saudi Arabia <..

It is Ramadan 2015 in Tunisia, and it is a tough one. Falling in July, seemingly endless scorching days are filled with children who long for something—anything

[The following press release on the seige of Madaya, Syria was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 7 January 2016 and updated on 8 January 2016]

Syria: Seige and Starvation in Ma..

Rights groups in Egypt and abroad have condemned the detention of Mada Masr contributor Hossam Bahgat in a series of statements released after military prosecutors took him into custody Sunday. They declared their solidarit..

In the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR), another Ramadan inevitably ushers in an intensified campaign to crack down on the Uyghurs’ religious beliefs, practices, and identity, alongside year-round social, political, and religious restrictions. As in previous years, local Xinjiang authori..

During the wave of uprisings and resulting crackdowns on Islamists in Egypt in 2013, all the media outlets were accused of taking sides. “When you point a camera to a side you neglect the rest of the real scene,” a protester said to me. “People are following those media outlets that confirm what..

Smadar Lavie, Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2014.

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

At least twenty-two died and many more were injured on Sunday evening during clashes between Zamalek’s hardcore football fans, the Ultras White Knights, and police forces at the Air Force stadium in New Cairo, according to the official Facebook page for the Ultras White Knights.

A fifteen-year-old high school student was killed in Alexandria on Friday during clashes between Muslim Brotherhood-affiliated protesters and security forces, Health Ministry Secretary Ayman Abdel Moneim told the state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram.

Sondos Reda Abu Bakr was shot to death w..

[The following press released was issued on 24 October 2014]

‘Astral Desire’ is a photo exhibition by Katie Ramadan that speaks of human relationships in Palestine, desire and spirituality. ‘Astral Desire’ opens in Haifa, at the Abatjour Café (49 Hillel St.) on 1 November 2014, la..

An Alexandria court suspended the sentence handed down to leftist activist Mahienour El-Massry on Sunday, ordering her release.

A request for the suspension was filed at the Misdemeanors Court on Thursday, which scheduled a review for Sunday.

Ahmed Seif al-Islam, one of the leading human rights lawyers in Egypt died on Wednesday after slipping into a coma following open-heart surgery earlier this month, the family announced in a statement.

Involved in political activism s..

An Alexandria court reduced a two-year sentence handed down to leftist activist Mahienour al-Massry to six months and a fifty-thousand Egyptian pound fine for protesting last year outside a court trying two policemen accused of killing Khaled Saeed.

Massry was jailed last May after an