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After her speech as the student elected speaker at the 2023 CUNY Law commencement in which she commended her class for organizing for Palestinian liberation, Fatima has been made the target of a smear campaign by a variety of organizations who seek to use her case to repress Palestinian organizi..

Over the past three months, the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the global neoliberal logics which make most societies unable to manage the ensuing socioeconomic and health crises. Between the ramifications of highly privatized healthcare systems and the lack of social safety nets, corporate inter..

As Turkey is preparing for municipal elections in March this year, the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is the second largest opposition force to contend against the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP). Having passed the parliamentary threshold in the ..

In this episode of Reclaiming Academic Freedom, Status//الوضع host Tareq Radi interviews four students on the university’s stifling of political organizing via the criminalization of student activit..

[The following is an open letter that the Rabat branch of the 20 February Movement has written to the international committee organizing the

[The following letter, signed by faculty from sixteen colleges of the City University of New York (CUNY), was released on 1 September 2014. For more information, or to sign on as a CUNY faculty signatory or an affiliate supporter, click

On 3 May 2014, former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice backed out of giving Rutgers University`s commencement speech amid growing opposition among the school`s students, staff, and faculty. Rice, one of the architects of the US war in Iraq, was not only due to give an addr..

Since Mubarak`s dramatic toppling on 11 February 2011, Egypt has been center stage in most discussions, theoretical and methodological, on the role of social media in political communication and dissent. There is no shortage of treatments on the topic from the..

In the following episode from AJE`s The Stream, Palestine solidarity activists from various University of California (UC) campuses discuss a three-pronged attack on free speech and campus organizing throughout the UC system:

1. A &..

Since the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) assumed interim governance of Egypt on 28 January 2011, at least twelve thousand civilians have been subjected to speedy military trials, often without any access to lawyers, witnesses, or evidence. SCAF is using military trials as a means to ..

[This is PART I of a three-part roundtable on Palestinian Diaspora and Representation moderated by Jadaliyya Co-Editor

Much of the media attention has rightfully focused on the violence of the Saleh regime in the face of mass protests and various defections. At the heart of these dynamics, however, are everyday people that are out in the streets articulating their demands and organ..

Al-Qahira, The City Victorious, February 11, 2011

Never has a revolution that seemed so lacking in prosp..

Mubarak told Christiane Amanpour that Egyptian “culture” was anarchic in nature—and that chaos would break out if he stepped down. So, Egyptians are barbaric and can be tamed only by the strong hand of a loving father—what else is new? This is not just what Lord Cr..

On 17 September, a number of opposition movements organized a “youth” protest in front of the headquarters of the Wafd Party (the old liberals) to persuade it to boycott the upcoming parliamentary elections. The protest was set to coincide with the Wafd’s general ..