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When I first visited Palestine and spent time in the refugee camps, I was struck by the role and visibility of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA, the main service provider for Palestinian refugees in the Lev..

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..

This Essential Readings belongs to ASI and MESPI’s year-long effort to mark, interrogate, and reflect on the Arab uprisings by producing resources for educators, researchers, students, and journalists to understand the last decade of political upheaval historically and in the lived present. To c..

In this interview, Alize Arıcan tells us about her award-winning research on how urban development is related to power dynamics between builders, politicians, and communities. Cihan and Alize discuss a range of issues tied to urban transformation in Turkey, including: historical landmarking and ..

EP. 2 - Chapter 3: The Naqab Bedouins: A Century of Politics and Resistances

Between 11-13 November 2018, hostilities erupted between Hamas and Israel upon the discovery of an undercover Israeli operation in the Gaza Strip, which left the Israeli operative fatally wounded. Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians in a bombing campaign that provided protection for soldier..

Over the past decade or so, popular culture has attracted increasing attention from scholars of the Middle East and North Africa. In particular, the mass protests and uprisings from the end of 2010 onwards sparked interest in popular culture as a vehicle for mobilizin..

Workshop Programme May 12^th - 13^th 2018, University of Kassel.

This weekend, the Modern Language Association`s (MLA) Delegate Assembly voted against a detailed, closely-argued, and voluminously documented resolution to support the boycott of Israeli academic institutions (79 for, 113 against). A few..

Maha El Said, Lena Meari, and Nicola Pratt, editors, Rethinking Gender in Revolutions and Resistance: Lessons from the Arab World. London: Zed Books, 2015.

In this interview, Amer Shomali discusses his film debut The Wanted 18, including the filmmaking process, creative resistance during the first Palestinian Intif..

[This interview regarding the ongoing resistance and expropriation processes in Yırca (Soma) was conducted by Boğaziçi University students Çiğdem Artık and Mustafa Kaba. The interviewees are Olcay Bingöl, who is an ecological activist resisting in solidarity with the villagers in Yırca again..

Kimberly Wedeven Segall, Performing Democracy in Iraq and South Africa: Gender, Media, and Resistance. Syracuse: Syracuse Univ..

The issue of women’s empowerment continues to be of paramount significance in determining the future of the incomplete Arab revolutions. Numerous scholars, activists, and feminists have commented with concern about the precarious position of women after the contagious revolutions, which started ..

Rethinking Vulnerability and Resistance: Feminism & Social Change

Women Creating Change

Istanbul Workshop, 16-19 September 2013     
Co-directors: Judith Butler and Zeynep Gambetti

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How is the body produced as a site of repression and resistence? Sherene Seikaly, Co-Editor at Jadaliyya, as well as Assistant Professor of History and Director of the Middle East Studies Center at the American University of..

A visit to Palestine in April has led me to reflect on Israel’s border practices and how they relate to the performance of Israel as a settler colonial state. I have also considered whet..

For peoples engaged in struggle, the potency of symbolism is undeniable. In the Palestinian case, the symbols of struggle cover the world throughout which we have been dispersed, and exhibit the depth of a century-old quest for freedom. Among the most potent of these symbols is the kufiyyeh, a h..

The only thing more sickening than the United States cracking down on groups/human beings it does not like in the name of fighting terrorism is when Arab regimes do it. The same goes for Israel except that one should be increasingly prepared to expect literally an..