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On 4 November, 2023, Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat spoke to 300,000 people who came out to DC in protest of the ongoing US-sponsored genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza.

On Friday, 12 May Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Josh Ruebner to discuss what the US government knew about the Nakba in real time. This episode of Connections examines the information available to US decision-makers during that fateful period, the conclusions they reached..

Join us on Friday, 12 May for a conversation with Josh Ruebner and Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani about what the US government knew about the Nakba in real time. This episode of Connections will examine the information available to US decision-makers during that fateful period, the ..

The Institute for Middle East Studies invites applications from full-time faculty at four-year colleges or universities to spend their sabbatical at the Institute, which is part of the George Washington University.

In the latest installment of Jadaliyya Talks, Negar Razavi sat down with Co-Founder/Editor of Jadaliyya, Bassam Haddad, and human rights attorney and Co-Editor of Jadaliyya, Noura Erakat, to discuss her article "The Sytemic Problem of 'Iran Expertise' in Washington."

[This Workshop is a collaboration between Institute of Middle East Studies (GW), Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative (www.MESPI.org and GMU), and Center For Contemporary Arab Studies (Georgetown)]

When it comes to understanding the Trump administration’s erratic and dangerous “maximum pressure” strategy toward Iran, it can be tempting to focus blame entirely on his closest advisors—most notably, John Bolton. After all, Trump’s national security advisor has rarely made his desire for..

We write on behalf of the Committee on Academic Freedom of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) to express our serious concerns regarding the 10 September 2018 announcement of a "research partnership" between the New York Times and George Washington University's Program on Extremi..

In this interview with Al Jazeera English, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani discusses the US decision to order the closure of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) mission in Washington, DC. Rabbani places this move in the broader context of the Trump administration's adoption of an agend..

[This letter was published on the Committee for Academic Freedom's MESA page on 6 July 2018.]

Nabil Sadek
Office of the ..

Commentators and self-styled experts have been quick to jump to hasty conclusions and decree what is driving the present bout of discontent. The giddy enthusiasm of the Trump administration, rightwing DC thinktanks, and many others is palpable. Predictably, the same voices who have consistently ..

Below is a list of MESA 2017 Annual Meeting panels in which one or more members of the Arab Studies Institute is involved in as an organizer, presenters, discussant, and/or chair.

Friday, April 3 | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Reception to Follow

American University Washington College of Law

4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016 | Room 603

Scholars, policy experts, and practitioners will convene to have an open discussion about how digital sea..

Center for Contemporary Arab Studies
Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Abdullah S. Kamel International Symposium

An Energy Revolution? Political Ecologies of Shale Oil in the Middle East, United States, and China

11-13 February
Georgetown Unive..

Issam Faris Institute for Public Policy and Internal Affairs presents

Pivoting, Advancing, or Retreating: Washington Tries to Cope with a Chaotic Middle East in a Changing Global Order

A Lecture by Dr. Michael C. Hudson

Monday, 1 October 2014
2:30pm

Auditorium
I..

[The following press release was issued 17 September 2014 by Cycling4Gaza.]

Dozens to Bike from Philadelphia to Washington, DC to Raise Funds for Medical Relief for Gaza’s C..

We should not be surprised that the United States will not condemn Israel’s violence, or that it describes such activities as merely a defensive response to indigenous “terrorism” and insurgent forces. Below, I describe how early US histor..

The Wide World of Persian:
Connections and Contestations, 1500 -Today

May 2-3, 2014

Co-Hosted by the Library of Congress and Roshan Institute of Persian Studies, University of Maryland

Busboys and Poets, Split This Rock, George Mason University, School of Art and Corcoran School of Art + Design Present:

Al Mutanabbi Street Starts Here: Commemorative Readings

Wednesday, March 5, 2014  /  6-830 PM.

Busboys and Poets
14th and V St..

Palestinian visual artist Khaled Jarrar’s award-winning documentary film, Infiltrators, documents how Palestinians defy Israel’s twenty-six-foot apartheid wall by jumping over the wall or going through underground tunnels. Thousands of Palestin..

In the following lines, I level four criticisms against what I term the imperialist liberal trend of thought and how it deals with the January 25 Revolution.

By “imperialist liberalism,” I mean that loose US-European academic tradition, whose defense of liberalism, especially of representa..

The cliché always reasserts itself as a truth: “as long as you are safe, that is all that matters.” In the wake of a disaster, material things – buildings, possessions, money – fade away in importance, and we first worry about the safety of our friends and loved ones.

Yet, as Hurrica..

Where Are We Headed? The US and Middle East After Elections
Palestine Center Annual Conference
9 November 2012
Washington, DC

The Palestine Center is an independent think-tank committed to communicating reliable and objective information about the Palestinia..