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As a musician and someone interested in politics from an early age, I have always been interested in how these two worlds meet, particularly when music dedicates itself to the causes of revolution and liberation. I had witnessed the vibrancy of mass expression ..

Guests Mouin Rabbani and Antony Loewenstein discuss the shocking attack by Hamas on October 7th and Israel's ruthless escalation. Will this, for a change, be an opportunity for all involved, Israelis, Palestinians and the international community to reset and seek a true and lasting peace b..

There are a total of thirteen districts in Istanbul's third region. The population of these three districts is around 5,695,000, according to official counts. There are four districts from the third region that are among the twenty most populous districts in Turkey. Therefore, this is an importa..

Turkey prepared for general elections in May after a devastating earthquake from which it had not fully recovered. The country then went through a long and exhausting electoral process, but one full of promise even though the main opposition's hopes were not realized. Despite all this, many prog..

When I first embarked on dissertational field research in the majority Kurdish town of Wan (Van) in eastern Turkey in the fall of 2011, I soon began working with a group of Kurdish women singers and poets.

Our plan to co-edit this book came from a desire to provide an initial account of the historic events of October 2019 through the voices of some of its protagonists. 

Engaging Books is a monthly series featuring new and forthcoming books in Middle East Studies from publishers around the globe. Each installment highlights a trending topic in the MENA publishing world and includes excerpts from the selected volumes.This ..

On a warm afternoon last March, Mina, a 24-year-old Algerian-American (who preferred not to give her last name), arrived at Washington, DC’s Dupont Circle proudly wearing a jacket with the word Algeria emblazoned on the front and back. In a small corner of the park laden with dozens of ..

Mohammad Reza Shajarian, Iran’s legendary vocalist who died on 8 October, was revered for more than just his musical virtuosity. The master of Persian classical music and likely the most important musician of contemporary Iran, passed away at the age of 80 after fighting cancer for many years.

One of the iconic moments of the Algerian Hirak occurred on 11 March 2019. The peaceful revolution had begun in February, and President Abdelaziz Bouteflika announced he would not be running for a fifth term. A young man who we now know to be Sofiane Bakir Turki responded to a reporter from Sky ..

The book, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, was born out of a writing workshop on Iranian identity taught by Persis Karim and Anita Amirrezvani in 2015 in Berkeley, CA. We both came to the workshop with deeply persona..

On 8 May 2020, the United States blocked a UN Security Council resolution calling for a global ceasefire to allow the world to concentrate on battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Weeks of careful negotia..

Engaging Books is a returning series that features books by various publishers on a given theme, along with an excerpt from each volume. This installment involves a selection from Syracuse University Press on the theme of Women's Writing in the Arab World..

During our field research in the orchards of East Wastani in the southern city of Sidon, we were stopped by Rua, a girl about twenty years old. Having found us carrying maps and cameras (“experts”), she followed us to ask, “Are you from the municipality? Or from the planning directorate? What wi..

On June 24, Saudi Arabia, making a long-awaited change, officially lifted its ban on women driving. Yet for the past seven weeks, Hatoon al-Fassi, an internationally known scholar, professor and women’s rights advocate, has remained in detention, having been arrested just as she was preparing to..

This interview is part of the series “Critical Voices in Critical Times” coordinated and edited by Linda Herrera. In this interview, Peter Mayo, a professor at the University of Malta and renowned scholar on Gramsci and Freire, engages with Egyptian sociologist from the University of Manchester,..

When I began studying Middle East politics in the mid-1990s, the main question dominating the discipline was how to explain the durability of authoritarian regimes. So, like other people in my field, or most people on the planet for that matter, I was captivated by t..

As a native Egyptian, I was immensely moved by the 2011 uprising and the temporary unity among all social groups in Tahrir Square in their call to topple the regime. However, like many Egyptians, I felt that the revolution was hijacked by the strange alliance between..

Considering women’s health issues in Lebanon and exposing patriarchy within the medical field.

Since 28 December 2017, Iran has been witnessing a wave of protests in more than eighty cities. The protests have expanded to far flung corners of the country, from Mashad, the second largest city in Iran, to Shahin shar in Isfahan Province to Bukan in North Western region of the country. The st..

In this instalment of AJE Inside Edition, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani joins Haaretz correspondent Gideon Levy and Turkish journalist Yusuf Kanli to discuss the regional response to the Trump administration's decision to recognize Israeli sovereignty over Jerusale..

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..

Join us for a book talk by author Ali Issa, as he discussed his most recent book: Against All Odds: Voices of Popular Struggle in Iraq (Tadween Publishing). Collected from dozens of interviews with, and reports from, Iraqi feminists, labor organizers, environmentalists, and protest move..