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The book is largely comprised of articles I wrote and published between 2018 and 2021 on various platforms, including 

[This interview with NPR's 1A podcast contains a discussion between Yousef Munayyer, head ..

In this episode of Flow Podcast, Eliane Raheb will discuss her journey with film making, activism, and public speaking, as well as feature foundational scenes from her last award winning films. Eliane Raheb has directed several award-winning short films and documentaries. Her main achievements i..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association on 19 July 2022 e..

“Does the Documenta have an anti-Semitism problem?” an editor of the German weekly newspaper DIE ZEIT asked on 12 January, 2022. He went on to explain a few issues later (in the ZEIT of February 2, 2022): “Artistic freedom and freedom of expression [are] by no means th..

Jadaliyya co-editor Sherene Seikaly will lead a conversation with Kareem Rabie discussing his new book Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Purchase with 30% off coupon: E21RABIE..

Frantz Fanon’s Les Damnés de la Terre (1961), translated into English as The Wretched of the Earth, is an incontrovertible classic in the literature of anti-colonial insurgency. It has acted as a source of inspiration for myriad intellectuals in the Global South, but by no mean..

How are the politics of Islamic studies gendered, and what does this mean for the field? Professor Kecia Ali's keynote speech addressed this and other questions at the 17th Annual Duke-UNC Middle East and Islamic Studies Graduate Student Conference.

Nearly two months have passed since the revolution started in Lebanon. The sectarian regime, the politicians who guard and sustain it, and the quick-fix economic policies that leave the rich richer and the poor poorer—they all still stand. While Lebanese people are taking to the streets daily, b..

Once a shipping container turned into an Israeli settlement caravan, later repurposed to be a Palestinian construction site office and now sawed into sections by Nida Sinnokrot, Jonah’s Whale dominates the room in which it sits. T..

The Islamicate Graduate Student Association invite papers for our 17th Annual Duke-UNC Conference, the longest running graduate student Middle East & Islamic Studies conference in the country. This year’s conference “Who Speaks for Islam?: Approaches to Authority within the Academy and Beyon..

Sadly, there is not an extensive literature on Palestinian livelihoods. Palestine-watchers are focused on other things—land theft, demolitions, population displacement, soldier brutality, mass incarceration, the spread of settlements—and all for very good reaso..

The murder of Khashoggi is likely to have a further chilling effect on already fearful critics of the Saudi regime. It has also exposed the extent of the online disinformation operation working to silence critics of the Kingdom and Mohammed bin Salman. 

The chronoscope in Isaac Asimov's 1956 short science-fiction novel The Dead Past is a device that projects the dead past. Through the manipulation of sub-atomic particles, its viewer is able to gaze precisely at any time or place in history. The pr..

A German newspaper recently released a forty-eight-page document that identifies the names and details of the 33,293 people who have died while trying to reach the shore..

Earlier this month, a British university hosted a conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation, one of many being organized this year. The conference sought to reflect on fifty years of the “longest standing military occupation in the world,” focusing on “its implications not..

Islamic Art Now, Part 2: Contemporary Art of the Middle East. Los Angeles County Museum of Art. 24 Ja..

On 6 August 2016, in the span of just twenty-four hours, the city of Aleppo went from being under government siege to being under rebel siege, or perhaps a double siege—there was much confusion in the media. 

Those who do not follow the Syrian conflict as obsessively as, perhaps, many..

[The following report back was submitted to Jadaliyya by the students are San Franscisco State University that protested Hillel-sponsored speech of Nir Barkat, the mayor of occupied Jerusalem.]

With the ..

[This letter by Gilbert Achcar, Professor at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, was originally published in Italian in Il Sole 24 Ore, as a response to public discussions re..

[The following letter was issued by the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association on 22 February 2016 in response to the disciplinary and criminal investigations of scholars in Turkey who are signatories of the "Peace Petition." For the ..