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[This interview with NPR's 1A podcast contains a discussion between Yousef Munayyer, head ..

After the recent death of former U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who oversaw the U.S. invasion of Iraq, NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro speaks with Iraqi poet and scholar Sinan Antoon about his legacy.

What started as a small campaign and an exchange of disgruntled emails among rent-burdened graduate student employees late last year at a university in California is turning into an entrenched labor strike. At a time when many are raising the alarm about ..

In the following interview conducted on 18 October 2018, NPR-affiliate WNYC Studios interviewed Abdullah al-Arian as part of their On the Media show. The segment focused on al-Arian's 2017 Jadaliyya article “Seventy Years of the New York Times Describing Saudi Royals as Reforme..

Spectrum talks with Dr. Bassam Haddad, the Director of Middle East and Islamic Studies Program at George Mason University and founder of the Arab Studies Institute. Dr. Haddad talked about the armed struggles in Syria, espe..

This month the civil war in Syria will enter its eighth year of fighting. More than 400,000 have been killed, nearly 1 million injured and over one-third of the nation's infrastructure has been destroyed, says Dr. Bassam Haddad, an expert on Syria.

In the following interview with NPR-affiliated Spectrum podcast, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Ziad Abu-Rish discusses the recent Trump Administration's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel. The interview covers the context surrounding the announcement, including its ..

While working as a Project Manager at the Fenway Community Development Corporation (CDC) in Boston and as a Consultant to Phipps Houses in New York City, I experienced firsthand how nonp..

In this interview with NPR`s Brooke Gladstone, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Elliott Colla discusses his essay "Watching ISIS on TV." Colla does a reading from his essay in which he describes his Iraqi in-law..

The speaker of parliament announced yesterday that that the Syrian regime will hold presidential elections on 3 June 2014. This announcement comes amid an array of speculation about the strategies of the regime in the face of over three years of the Syrian uprising, a brutal and destructive regi..

In the following interview on 30 March epsiode of NPR`s All Things Considered, Jadaliyya Co-Editor

[The following letter was issued by the Associated Press on 13 May 2013 in response to revelations that the Justice Department had seized the personal and professional telephone records of reporters and editors of ..

How Israel Torpedoes Nonproliferation

Strengthening the international nonproliferation regime is one of President Obama’s key foreign policy goals. During a

[The following report was issued by Physicians for Human Rights on 1 August 2012.] 

Weaponizing Tear Gas: Bahrain`s Unprecedented Use of Toxic Chemical Agents Against Civi..

It has been almost two weeks since the bombing in Burgas, Bulgaria, that killed five Israelis and one Bulgarian, and the investigation has still not yielded answers. Foreign security agents and experts flooded the country to help local authorities trace the organisers. One newspaper alleged that..

[This is the second part of a six-part series associated with a Jadaliyya roundtable discussing targeted killings . Participants include Richard Falk, Nathan Freed Wess..

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Syria`s civilian death toll is now estimated at over 6000 people, as tanks and machine guns continue to bombard residential neighborhoods. Some 25,000 civilians have managed to flee to destinations including Turkey, Jordan, and Leba..

In news that stunned millions of listeners, NPR confirmed that the dish once known as "Baba ghannouj" (or "Spoiled Papa") is actually the recent creation of the inventive Israeli c..