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Easy access to archives and their contents represents a major challenge for researchers in the Gulf and Arabian Peninsula studies. Generally speaking, the history of this region is not largely a written one; it mainly depends on oral history, particularly in relation to the sheikhdoms ..

During the twelve-day war on Iran, a flurry of statements, commentaries, and open letters appeared across digital platforms, institutional websites, and social media feeds. Produced by artists, academics, activists, NGOs, and cultural institutions, these utterances offer a volatile yet revealing..

The Palestinian condition is such that any map is treated by Palestinians as a dubious object, capable of deceit. Maps represent more than just a physical image of place. They possess agency and should be read as texts just like paintings, theatre, film, television, and music; they speak of the ..

The Afterlife of Palestinian Images is part of a series of acts I have engaged in since 2017, which together explore if something anew can emerge out of ruins. 

Up until now, the history of slavery and the history of Iranian cinema have been considered distinct and largely unrelated subjects. One of the more idiosyncratic aspects of the book is the way in which it manages to address and reconceptualize these two topics..

For some time now, I have been intrigued by the attribution of silence to the Gulf migrants from Kerala regarding their actual lives in the Gulf. As someone who grew up partly in the Dhafra region of Abu Dhabi and is from an extended family who had a significan..

 Bye Bye Tiberias was the Palestinian entry for the 2024 Academy Awards. This interview was conducted before the screening of Bye Bye Tiberias at the fourth Middle East Film Festival at Denison ..

Toni Morrison said “if there is a book you want to read, and it is not yet written, then you must write it yourself.” I wanted a book that spoke to my experiences as a queer Palestinian woman. I wanted to situate myself in a community with other queer Arabs, to..

I have always been motivated to communicate across differences. This book emerged from a pressing need to bring different groups of people into conversation about the entanglement of digital media, technology, politics, art, and culture in our contemporary live..

Moroccan Other-Archives: History and Citizenship after State Violence is an attempt to make sense of a historically rich period in Morocco’s post-colonial history by engaging questions of archives, loss, and citizenship through the rewriting of the nat..

I joined the Journal’s editorial board in 2015 and became its first co-editor, and first woman editor, in 2020. Shortly thereafter, the editorial team—Rashid Khalidi, maia tabet, Emily Smith, Maggie Nye Smith, Maria Khoury, and Laura Albas..

Deserts in our collective imagination mean annihilation, romanticism, emptiness, and death. Because it defies the ordinary notions of place, the desert may evoke an erroneous state of “nothingness.” Even Libyan novelist Ibrahim al-Koni has highlighted this fact in declaring that the “desert is n..

The eight articles below – previously published by Jadaliyya – cover a wide range of matters related to Palestinian imprisonment. At the heart of each of these articles is an examination of lived experiences and the impact of prisoners on the Palestinian community at large. From hunger ..

December 17, 2020 marked the tenth anniversary of the start of the Arab uprisings in Tunisia. Beginning in 2011, mass uprisings swept North Africa and the Middle East, spreading from the shores of Tunisia to Egypt, Libya, Syria, Yemen, Bahrain, and the Eastern Province of the Arabian Peninsula. ..

On 12 February 1979, a day after the victory of the Iranian revolution, Rana Javadi, a 24-year-old photographer responsible for some of the most iconic images we now have of the Iranian revolution, was walking the streets of Tehran, camera in hand, when she came across this scene in front of a p..

It is so difficult to measure the passing of time we know is gone. Events that took months and occurred years ago are encapsulated in an image, a song, or the vivid recollection of euphoria; they seem to have happened yesterday, to be happening now, never to have happened at all. In some ways, t..

On March 25, 2021, the front page of the Francophone opposition paper in Algeria, El Watan, featured the headline: “Historians demand the opening of the archives.” A large photo of the national archives accompanied excerpts from a letter expressing the dismay of Algerian historians who ..

I came across this letter while conducting archival work for my dissertation, in the archive of the Ministère des Affaires Étrangères, at the Centre des Archives Diplomatiques de Nantes. It was one of millions of documents that comprise France’s extensive repository of materials pertaining to th..