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5:30 a.m. I emerge into consciousness—hazy, alert, terrified by the thought that in the three hours of fragile sleep I managed, I may have lost a friend back home. Israel has launched a sudden and staggering military assault on Iran. The full scope of the operation remains unknown, but the targe..

A wave of intensified repression has engulfed university campuses since Israel launched its genocide in Gaza in October. To frame discussion of Israeli colonialism and Palestinian freedom as “anti-Jewish hate,” these efforts unite a diffuse set of tactics: megadonors, corporate advertising, lawf..

Over 45 years ago the international community, acting through the United Nations General Assembly, adopted a landmark resolution which determined that “Zionism is a form o..

Human Rights Watch's 27 April report, A Threshold Crossed: Israeli Authorities and the Crimes of Apartheid and Persecution, could also have been entitled Better Late Than Never. The evidence and analysis deployed in this 217 page report and its 867 footnotes, voluminous and sou..

Government-Compiled Dossier Accuses Organization of Promoting Boycotts

(Jerusalem) – Israeli authorities on May 7, 2018, revoked the work permit for

Saudi authorities have arrested dozens of people, including prominent clerics, in what appears to be a coordinated crackdown on dissent, Human Rights Watch said today. The campaign comes three months after Mohammad bin Sal..

Heritage Watch Day: 
Heneine Palace & Dalieh of Raouche 

By Save Beirut Heritage
& The Civil Campaign to Protect the Dalieh of Raouche

18-21 May 2017
Beirut, Lebanon..

“Genocide” evokes crematoria, mountains of skulls, and mass graves. It is what the Nazis did to the Jews of Europe, what the Khmer Rouge did to fellow Cambodians, what Hutu nationalists did to Tutsis in Rwanda. The term, like the practices of death and social destruction to which it refers..

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup deals with a number of issues that occupied the media scene in the region, from the end of the battle over Aleppo to the state of journalism during 2016 and the cultural misrepresentation of Muslims on the BBC.

After a four-year bat..

[The following report was originally published by

Reda al-Fardan, the Bahraini software developer behind Bahrain Map, discusses Bahrain Watch`s new Fabrigate project, which tracks fabrications that have b..

[The following is an overview of last week’s parliamentary elections in Bahrain that Ala’a Shehabi wrote for Bahrain Watch on 26 November 2014.] ..

 [The following press release was issued on 22 October 2014 by Watch/Raqeb]

-Watch/Raqeb- is plea..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association on 23 October 2014]

Amcha Initiative
via email administrator@amchainitiative.org

To wh..

[This is a monthly archive of pieces written by Jadaliyya contributors and editors on Egypt. It also includes material published on other platforms that editors deemed pertinent to post as they provide diverse depictions of Egypt-related topics. The pieces reflect the l..

On May 15, 2014, Nakba Day—a day on which Palestinians commemorate the mass dispossession caused by the formation of the state of Israel—Israeli army snipers shot and killed teenagers Nadeem Siam Nawara and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu Daher during a protest outside of the Ofer prison, where Palest..

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[In view of the growing controversy about HRW`s role and positions, Jadaliyya is re-posting this 2009 analysis of HRW`s response to Israel`s 2008-2009 assault on the Gaza Strip by Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani, originally published on 

I spent the last few afternoons and evenings with my wife`s cousins---dynamic, generous, and patient people from Baghdad who only recently---after eight years of one war, ten years of sanctions, and ten years of violent occupation---decided to permanently resettle in Amman. Besides eating and dr..

[The following monthly summaries on developments in Syria were compiled and published by the International Crisis Group..

[On 12 May an open letter published on AlterNet to Human Rights Watch Executive Director Kennet..

[The following open letter was issued on 12 May 2014 by the below signatories, and originally published on Alternet.org.]

Dear Kenneth Ro..

ONE YEAR FULL-TIME JOB VACANCY
LEBANON SPECIALIST

Middle East and North Africa Division
(Beirut Office)
Application Deadline: May 23, 2014


Human Rights Watch (“HRW”) is seeking a one-year full..