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Jadaliyya co-editor Noura Erakat joined Democracy Now! to discuss the unjust arrest and detainment of Columbia graduate and Palestinian activist Mahmoud Khalil, as well as the bipartisan complicity in perpetuating anti-Palestinian rhetoric responsible for the suppression of free speech amo..

Reflecting on events from the first half of 2021, IFEX’s Middle East and North Africa Editor Naseem Tarawnah explains how increasingly sophisticated digital surveillance tools are being sold to and deployed by authoritarian states in the region to target human rights defenders, ..

Two interviews on how European governments are actively supporting a system of abuse and exploitation of refugees and migrants by the Libya’s Coast Guard.

Thousands of Tanzanian women toil as domestic workers in the Middle East, cleaning, caring, and cooking for their employer’s families. Each year, hundreds more follow, often with promises of salaries ten times what they could earn at home. Some find decent working conditions and good salaries. M..

In August 2005, Turkey’s then-Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made what was, by Turkish standards, a remarkable public statement. Speaking at a rally held in the spiritual capital of Turkey’s predominately Kurdish southeast, a location which only added to the symbolism of the occasion,

 [This Migrant Rights report sheds light on the r..

[The following report was originally published by Migrant Rights on 25 July 2014 under the title "Home Surveillance Marketed Against Domestic..

[The following press release was issued by Human Rights Watch on 28 May 2014.]

(London) – Bahrain’s criminal justice system fails to deliver basic accountability and impartial justice,..

[The following joint briefing was written by the undersigned and issued by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 6 April, 2014]

On the morning of the Grand Prix race which will take place today at 6pm in S..

[The following joint briefing was issued by the Freedom Foundation, the Union of Journalists, and Reporters Without Borders. It was published by Reporters Without Borders on 13 March 2014]

[The following statement was issued by the undersigned and published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 4 March 2014]

Joint Statement: NGOs Express Concern over Escalation of Violence in ..

[The following report was published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 1 March 2014]

Rising Human Rights Challenges in the Gulf Region and Beyond: Annual Report of the Gulf Center for Human Rights 2014

[The following press release was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 19 March 2014]

Two days ago, Osama Al Najjar, a 25 year-old architectural engineer, was arres..

[The following report was published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 10 February 2014] 

Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation

[The following press release was issued by the Alkarama Foundation on 9 March 2014]

UAE: Qata..

 [The following report was published by Amnesty International on 19 December 2013]

Introduction

This briefing describes seri..

In the past few months sex panics and moral panics, centered on gendered bodies and abuses, have rocked Lebanon.  In this article I want to revisit three of these panics: photos of a semi-nude Lebanese Olympic Skier’s body and reactions to it; the impunity of wife murderers and wife abusers..

[The following Letter of Allegation was issued by the undersigned and published by Reporters Without Borders on 15 December 2013]

[This report was originally published by Migrant Rights on 6 December 2013.]

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week`s roundu..

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week`s roundu..

With its one-month anniversary around the corner and attacks on its participants only increasing, tensions are high at the Rabea al-Adaweya Muslim Brotherhood sit-in, defiance now sharing the air with paranoia and suspicion. Reports of the torturing of “infiltrators” by the sit-in’s members have..

[The following report was released by Human Rights Watch on 21 June 2013.]