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The book is born out of my PhD thesis, which in turn was a translation and critical study of Imam Badr al-Din al-Zarkashi's fourteenth-century work, al-Ijaba li-Iradi ma Istadrakathu Aisha Ala al-Sahabah - The Corrective: Aisha's Rectification of the..

I met the Kurdish movement in 2000. Since then, I have been involved with it both politically and academically. The people in the movement related to me always with great care. They were protective of me as much as they were persistent in their demands for soli..

Every morning, and every now and then, my mother reminds us to decrease our use of water. To keep a pot in the sink to collect the used water after washing dishes for other purposes. Her favorite saying during the war is “we are better off than others!” I told my sister that I cut my hair. I jus..

The tears of my father when I was seventeen years old. The tears that ran down his cheeks when he was not permitted to enter his own house in Jaffa by the Israeli woman who occupied it.

I chose to write about leftist women’s activism in Egypt out of my own life history as a leftist activist-scholar, originally from Al-Salt, Jordan, but having lived primarily in the United States.

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

In Nadine Labaki’s new film Capernaum, the radio-transmitted voice of the incarcerated child protagonist tells his parents–and the Lebanese public, by extension–to stop having children, since they cannot provide them with a respectable life.

Since 20 July, when a suicide bomber in the town of Suruç killed thirty-two socialist activists on their way to help rebuild Kobanê in northern Syria, Turkey has devolved into a de facto state of emergency. While Turkish police began operations across the country and have arrested approximately ..

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?

[This week, the Saturday Mothers will be commemorating their five hundredth sit-in protest in Taksim Square, Istanbul. This statement of solidarity was released by the Scholars for Peace Initiative on 25 October 2014. The Scholars for Peace initiative focuses on creating peace among th..

[Part one of this article can be found here.]

So far, this essay has illustrated how political actors have addressed the family in their discourse as a part of their strat..

The Gezi Park Protests and Politics of the Family

Many academic commentators on the Gezi Park protests and the ensuing nation-wide uprisings have tended to focus on their more overtly political characteristics, adopting a macro-political perspective in their approach to th..

Nouri Gana, Signifying Loss: Toward a Poetics of Narrative Mourning. Lewisburg: Bucknell University Press, 2011.

In the preface to his recent book, Signifying Loss, Nouri Gana argues that “[i]n a worl..

Natalya Vince, “Saintly Grandmothers: Youth Reception and Reinterpretation of the National Past in Contemporary Algeria.” The Journal of North African Studies, 18:1 (2013).

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[The following statement was issued by Reporters Without Borders on 17 January 2013.]

Reporters Without Borders is deeply concerned to learn that Mansoureh Behkish, a netizen and foun..

In October 2011, the newly renovated Sourp Giragos Armenian Apostolic Church reopened in Turkey’s southeastern province of Diyarbakir. Among the hundreds gathered to celebrate its first mass in over ninety years were local men and women who had chosen the occasion to be baptized into the Armenia..

Sipping juice in one of downtown Cairo`s heirloom coffee houses, Khadiga Hennawi lights a cigarette with her hand bound in plaster, which is the only indication of what she has witnessed since the revolution. A steady stream of young adults approaches her table, alternatively encouraged or admon..

François Abu Salem passed away on 1 October 2011, taking his own life in what one Palestinian theatre artist described as “his last bow.” His death has instigated numerous discussions among the cultural community in Palestine on the

[This piece is from Hamdy El-Gazzar`s current writing project entitled, Our Revolution: Stories To Fit in the Palm of Your Hand]

The lady is old. Elderly, timeworn. Nearly 92. Long years old. One of the wonders of the world…

Look — do you see her small, round dark-bro..

[The below statement was originally issued in Italian by Bretta Arrigoni, mother of Vittorio Arrigoni. Translation by Sabastio Nascirmento.]

One has to die to become a hero, to hit the headlines and to have TV crews around the house, but does one have to die to stay human? I recall Vittori..

[Take a look at this crap first]

When Mohamed Bouazizi immolated himself in protest and set off a wave of much bigger protests in Tunis, and then elsewhere, speculation arose a..