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Nearly 12 years ago, I sat in a building along the Cola circle, a block from my own apartment, to interview a leader of the General Union of Palestinian Women in Lebanon about her movement work between 1970 and 1982 when the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was headquartered in Lebanon. J..

Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).

We have shared a long editorial commitment to investigating the many cultural forms that human rights expressions can take and to bringing voices of survivors of human rights violations to the public. Our interest in the artwork of Moath al-Alwi, still detained..

This is a conversation with scholars of Iran and its diasporas to discuss the current anti-government protests there. Our speakers contextualize the protests within the broader struggle for women's rights in Iran and transnational feminist movements.

Join us for a conversation with scholars of Iran and its diasporas to discuss the current anti-government protests there. Our speakers will contextualize the protests within the broader struggle for women's rights in Iran and transnational feminist movements.

The project was initially triggered by my desire to have a conversation, deeply personal but also broad, with a group of women, whom I admired and who had never been considered together. In a way, with this book, I also wanted to contribute to shifting the atte..

On 11 January 2002, the Bush administration established the Guantanamo detention facility as a laboratory for generating "actionable intelligence" through coercive interrogations. It began as an illegal enterprise. Guantanamo remained open through the Obama and Trump administrations, and the Bid..

The last decade has witnessed deep changes to the regional dynamics of the Middle East. Millions of people have been displaced within and across the region, disrupting existing territorial arrangements and producing a range of new cross-border networks and political and economic ties. Struggles ..

The last decade has witnessed deep changes to the regional dynamics of the Middle East. Millions of people have been displaced within and across the region, disrupting existing territorial arrangements and producing a range of new cross-border networks and political and economic ties. Struggles ..

Since 2010, I have been to Guantánamo 13 times. I can’t go as a scholar conducting research or a concerned citizen, so I go as a journalist. When I tell people that I am heading off to Guantánamo, responses tend to range from bafflement to curiosity. Highly educated and pol..

The privatization of education is hotly debated across the world. It hardly represents a uniform set of policies with experts, economists, civil society organizers, and state officials weighing potential gains and losses. Iran has been no exception to this pattern. As most theoretical literature..

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad interviews Syria Page Co-Editors Omar Dahi and Rabie Nasser about the recently released report: “Roots, Dynamics, and Pathways for Change.” Omar Dahi, the lead author of the paper which was prepared for the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR), summarizes it..

The contemporary regional and international environment is characterized by two main trends: polarization and fragmentation. Here, I take a brief look at each of these, and then relate them to the Question of Palestine.

Topics of conversation included contextualizing the history of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism, personal experiences with Islamophobia on campus, the importance of community and understanding nuance and power hierarchies.

Current studies show the changing nature of masculinity and how it is produced by the interplay of multiple economic forces, social values, cultural meanings, and political systems. Such studies have succeeded in problematizing dominant negative representations of Middle Eastern men, who are oft..

Despite its location at the southern end of the Indian archipelago, Australia is rarely understood as part of South Asia. Even when discussed critically as a settler colony, Australian history is overwhelmingly told through English language sources: British “discovery” in 1770, penal settlement ..

For over two months, wide-scale protests in Sudan have continued unabated calling for President Omar al-Bashir to step down and pave the way for a transition period ushering in multi-party democracy. Not surprisingly, as with similar protests in the past, the Bashir regime has sought a military ..

Thursday, December 6, 2pm
HUB 3&4
George Mason University

During the Egyptian uprising of 2011, I was interested not only in participating in the demonstrations, but as a political scientist I was also interested in understanding the motives behind why people turned out and mobilized against Mubarak. A few months after the ..