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Marc Lamont Hill discusses the latest move towards recognising Palestinian statehood with analyst Mouin Rabbani.

As the pandemic bludgeoned the world in ways we all felt keenly on a personal and collective level, it occurred to us that as social scientists, COVID-19 was changing the MENA region in ways that must be accounted for. It was not enough to simply observe that t..

The “Critical Approaches to Development Studies in the MENA Region” project at the American University of Beirut (AUB) is pleased to announce the call for applications for the first edition of the Beirut Winter Institute in Critical Development Studies to be held in Beirut from 5 to 15 ..

The Middle East Studies Association Global Academy announces a call for applications for scholarships for displaced scholars from the Middle East & North Africa in North America for the 2021-2022 academic year. 

Knowledge production is never a neutral process; it is always shaped by the belief systems and biases of those in a position to research and produce knowledge in books, articles, reports, films or art. While knowledge about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region produced in aca..

Co-editors of Jadaliyya's Environment Page, Huma Gupta and Gabi Kirk, discussed with Kali Rubaii how ecologies of war have produced multiple waves of displacement and have intimately shaped the lives of displaced Iraqis through the materiality of cement.

PartnersGlobal (Partners), established in 1989, is an international, non-governmental organization committed to promoting transparent and accountable governance by strengthening civil society organizations and encouraging a culture of change and conflict managem..

Rapper and Producer Nasser Shorbaji (also known as 'Chyno') unpacks the Middle East's first official Rap Battle League in Beirut.

This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya.

الكفاح من أجل الحرية والعدالة في سوريا ، اضطر جهاد عبدو وفادية عفاش إلى الفرار من بلادهم والبدء من الصفر في الولايات المتحدة.

Professor Shoba Wadhia summarizes and unpacks the various and meandering iterations of the Muslim Bans, from January 2017 to February 2018, and provides the audience a sense of what is to come.

It rained profusely on the front of the car windows. It was 6:03 AM, and Beyoncé was blasting through the speakers, as we drove along the empty 403 Highway from Toronto to Chicago. “Feminist”, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie declared on the soundtrack, “a person who believes in the social, political, a..

Two of Morocco's most prominent intellectual figures, Abdelhay Moudden and Driss Ksikes, discuss the unique political, economic and social dynamics of the country.

Dr. Esra Özyürek and host Nazlı Özkan discusses the interplay and dynamics between Islam, Christianity, secularism and nationalism in the context of Turkey and Europe.

This installment of the MENA Dialogues series produced by the Middle East and North African Studies Program at Northwestern University features a conversation between Joel Beinin and Danny Postel.

MENA Dialogues: Novelist and essayist Porochista Khakpour and literary scholar Brian Edwards discuss writing, diaspora, Iranian-America, and the politics of the publishing industry. 

A German newspaper recently released a forty-eight-page document that identifies the names and details of the 33,293 people who have died while trying to reach the shore..

Street art in all of its forms has long been associated with subversive goals and a compelling aesthetic. Created by individuals and communities who strived to push back against oppressive systems of power, contribute to civil and political discourses they were otherwise excluded from, and..

This week, Jadaliyya`s "Media on Media" roundup offers a variety of news and opinions on the way the media have been operating in the region.

Why is the tr..

This week’s Jadaliyya "Media on Media" Roundup features a host of articles about Omran Daqneesh, the five-year-old Syrian child who has become a symbol for the voices decrying airstrikes in Aleppo. British cartoonist Martin Rowson’s depiction of the situation offers a grim ass..

Middle East Report
No. 278 (Spring 2016)

LIFE IN EXILE

The Middle East is once again the world’s biggest producer of refugees, due primarily to the catastrophic war in Syria. The region has also long hosted the greatest number of r..

Call for Papers

Avenues of Social and Political Change: 

Five Years of Contention in the Middle East and North Africa 

April 8, 2016

The Graduate Center, City University of New York

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Is ISIS all about Islam, or about geopolitics? This dualism has framed the debate about ISIS among Western analysts, especially American ones. They have formed two camps, one sees in ISIS and its practices an irrefutable evidence of the “true face of Islam”; a..

Scholars, academics, experts, and students of Middle East economics from around the world are invited to submit research abstracts of papers to be presented at the conference, entitled The Impact of Oil Prices on the Economic Growth and Development in the MENA countries. Abstracts are accepted i..