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Republic of Dreams is written as narrative nonfiction and is told largely through the eyes of one young Kurdish man. The book developed out of my scholarly research on protest and campaigns for political change in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, where I ..

I was first drawn to the idea of writing about prisons and prisoners in Iran because, like many Iranians, I have spent my whole life hearing stories about incarceration from friends and family members who have had encounters—some quite brutal—with Iran’s prison..

The Insecurity Monitor is Security in Context’s (SiC’s) annual print and digital magazine, featuring the most important outputs from across research tracks. Launched in 2020, Security in Context is a transnational research network whose mission is to advance critical and non-Western per..

Central to the NDPers’ integration into Mustaqbal Watan Party (MWP) was the association (and later “political brand”) known as Min Agl Masr (MAM), Arabic for “For Egypt’s Sake.” Seeking to cultivate public support for President Sisi and his policies, the organization made its debut in May 2016 u..

#The_New_Republic (الجمهوريةــالجديدة#) was the hashtag featured on every television screen in Egypt last month to mark ten years since the birth of the political order that came into being after the coup of 3 July 2013. The anniversary coincided with a tense moment in the age of the regime of A..

I wrote this book because it was a book I wanted to read. I came of age during a time when the images and discussions of Muslim women revolved around a trope of victimhood, and the urgency of international intervention in the region was a regular news headline...

This review was originally published in the Fall 2022 issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click 

My impulse to write this book emerged from the quite basic observation, made on my first visit to Palestine, that, while I had read a lot of analysis about Israel’s total immobilization of Palestinians, Palestinians were moving around anyway.

On 19 March 2022, French President Emmanuel Macron spoke at a ceremony commemorating the sixtieth anniversary of the Evian Accords. This agreement between the French state and the Algerian FLN (National Liberation Front) introduced a cease-fire in the midst of a violent war of liberation (1954-1..

The 6.6 million internally displaced persons (IDP) in Syria represent the largest internally displaced population in the world. Women face distinct challenges relating to issues such as sexual harassment and limitations on their freedom of movement. Many women had a high degree of interest..

Feeding Iran is an ethnography of religion and family life in the post-revolutionary Islamic Republic of Iran that focuses on Basiji families, members of Iran’s voluntary paramilitary organization. It is the first account of these state supporters outs..

Growing up in 1980s Iran, I used to prepare for school every morning as state radio played The Calendar of History (Taqvim-e Tarikh), a show chronicling important events from Iranian, Islamic, and global history. It was one of the most popular radio programs of the 80s and 90s ..

Technologies of Power: Tracing Empire at Home and Abroad is a retrospective that begins on the 20th anniversary of the 'war on terror.' Our website and our Twitter: @techofpower. The first event is on 9/10 and then 12-1:30 est every other Friday.

In order to help facilitate a wide-ranging discussion about the limits, possibilities, and ethics of doing research with/on stateless people and political movements, and to create a venue for addressing the challenges of feminist and decolonial methodologies, the Jadaliyya Turkey Page..

This book grew out of both my personal experience, as a poet growing up in Iran, and my academic life in the United Kingdom and the United States, as a student and now professor of Persian literature. It began as my doctoral dissertation at the University of Ox..

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..

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Full-length papers of 6000-7000 words are invited for a Special Issue to be published with a UK based Scopus-indexed peer-reviewed journal.
Guest Editors: Dr. E. Dawson Varughese and Dr. Mohamed Shafeeq Karinkurayil.*

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This special collection of articles is based on an interdisciplinary symposium held at University College London in June 2019. The event concluded the project "Public Services and Vulnerability in the Lebanese Context of Large-Scale Displacement," a collaboration between researchers at Universit..

I wrote this book for several reasons. Firstly, my main concern was to engage in a study of politics and power which went beyond the classical focus on the state as the all-powerful agent of enforcement and intervention in people’s lives. I wanted to explore th..

The current habitability crisis, and the failure of progressive policies to think of ways that cities can adapt to different forms of displacement, and resist the interrelated practices of expulsion, extraction, and externalization, are clear to anyone engaging with urban spatial practices. Disp..

Attending to the historical significance of the current protests makes clear the limitations of critical methods of analyses that are beholden to the ruptures and transformations that constitute European secularization and the emergence of left and liberal perspectives on politics therein. Howev..

When I joined the Turkey section of Jadaliyya as a co-editor in June 2013, the Gezi uprising was underway. I remember the excitement and sense of urgency that made us review and post articles on the page every single day, while were simultaneously glued to Twitter, the main site of info..