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Although today Muzaffar al-Nawwab (1931/4–2022) is perhaps best remembered across the Arab world for his scathing critiques of Arab and Western leaders and his unwavering support for the Palestinian cause, it was not until after 1969 that he began writing poetry in Standard Arabic that addressed..

Several factors motivated me to write this book. I will highlight three that address the larger questions it poses. First, my longstanding interest in Palestinian society since World War I drove me to explore how the Nakba and the forced m..

Our speakers will evaluate the first three months after the collapse of the Syrian regime on 8 December 2024. They will address domestic and regional matters, inclu..

Our speakers will evaluate the first 45 days after the collapse of the Syrian regime on 8 December 2024. They will address domestic and regional matters, including the circumstances that resulted in the unforeseen collapse, the pattern of recruitment and control that followed, and challenges reg..

My motivation to write this book was both intellectual and political. The book is a trans-feminist research piece. That is, feminist research informed by trans politics and centering on trans perspectives, experiences, and stories. It is a product of my decades..

This project originated in the Society for Armenian Studies conference “‘Diaspora and Stateless Power’: Social Discipline and Identity Formation Across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century” that was held at the University of California, Los A..

In recent years the buzzwords of “sustainability” and the “green economy” have been used in the Gulf states as much as they have been anywhere else. The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries are keen to portray themselves as eager participants in environmental change. This is most apparent in..

Toni Morrison said “if there is a book you want to read, and it is not yet written, then you must write it yourself.” I wanted a book that spoke to my experiences as a queer Palestinian woman. I wanted to situate myself in a community with other queer Arabs, to..

I started working on Zoya Pirzad’s stories and novel in 2012 and published two articles on her works. But it was not until 2018—when I was invited to present on the contributions of Iranian Armenians to the Iran-Iraq war efforts at the Association of Iranian St..

On 3 May 2020, cricketer-turned-politician and the then Prime Minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan addressed a public gathering where he spoke about the importance of watching Turkish shows instead of ‘typical Bollywood’. This speech came a year after Pakistan had banned the import or broadcast of I..

Tradurre é tradire: translation is betrayal. Thus goes the saying that generations of translators and scholars of translation have grappled and are still grappling with. Translation is betrayal, but I have always wondered who and which language translation betrays. Are all transla..

During my first return to a Coptic Orthodox Church following a long pandemic-induced hiatus, a priest at a local parish in Ottawa, Canada, excitedly handed me a two-volume book titled Elements: The Transfiguration of Elijah, Earth & Water (volume I) and Wind & Fire (vol..

This book started as a dissertation project. In 2011, I traveled to Jerusalem to conduct preliminary dissertation research at the Israel State Archive. My hope was to find autobiographical sources of Palestinians in the early twentieth century. I had been resea..

On August 21, 2022, Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley Law School adopted a bylaw that stated it would “not invite speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zi..

On August 21, 2022, Law Students for Justice in Palestine at Berkeley Law School adopted a bylaw that stated it would “not invite speakers that have expressed and continued to hold views or host/sponsor/promote events in support of Zi..

This conversation between Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat and Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith covers a broad range of topics beginning with how the Biden administration dramatically increased the US military budget and how US Congress exceeded the administration’s request. What does this ballooning bu..

This conversation between Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat and Dr. Khury Petersen-Smith will cover a broad range of topics beginning with how the Biden administration dramatically increased the US military budget and how US Congress exceeded the administration’s request. What does this balloonin..

In this episode of The Real Football podcast, well after all the confetti has been cleaned up from Doha, we look at the victors and other awardees of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Our group will also debate where various national teams go after the coaching switches have gotten under way. Other..

A lot of the writing on climate change, the ecological crisis, and the energy transition in North Africa and the Arab region is dominated by international neoliberal institutions. Their analyses are biased and leave out questions of class, race, gender, justice..

I am attracted to texts that work as prisms for disentangling and analyzing the complexities of systems of domination. The modern Arabic Bible is one such prismatic text.

Being wrong about something important was a powerful motivation. OK, maybe “wrong” is too strong, but it was the realization that something I felt I understood well was being interpreted quite differently by some of my interlocutors that pushed me forward with ..