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Join our first session of “Teaching Palestine Today” series. This session addresses the “Liberal Arts Context,” with Lara Deeb, Heather Ferguson, Amanda Lagji, and Leila Mansouri

Over the last twenty months, we have seen starvation used as a weapon of war in Gaza and Artsakh/Nagorno Karabakh. Much attention was given to its usage in Sudan in recent years.

As a community of critically engaged scholars and global citizens, we are shocked by the belated and insufficient response of the international community to the ethnic cleansing of what was, until weeks ago, the Armenian-populated enclave of Karabakh/Artsakh, located within the interna..

We have been working for the past few years on a large oral history project about women and the Lebanese Civil War, doing interviews, collecting information, and listening to stories. For the larger project, we spoke to about fifty women about various aspects o..

This review was originally published in the Spring issue of Arab Studies Journal. For more information on the issue, or to subscribe to ASJ, click 

It has been suggested that once the COVID-19 pandemic is brought under control, mass demonstrations are likely to again erupt across the Arab world. Widespread protests during 2018-2019 in Algeria, Iraq, Lebanon, Morocco, and Sudan have already been embraced as Arab Spring 2.0. As recently argue..

The OSUN Center for Human Rights & the Arts invites applications for two one-year research and teaching fellowships in human rights and the arts. The positions are open to individuals working in a variety of fields where human rights and the arts intersect, including artists, curators, resea..

Արցախ / Qarabağ ihtilafının, yani “Güney Kafkasya” denilen coğrafyada, “Dağlık Karabağ” olarak adlandırılmış, kara ile çevrili bölge üzerindeki anlaşmazlığın kökenleri Sovyetlerin erken dönemine uzanır ve sömürgecilik ürünüdür. Dönemin Sovyetler Birliği uluslar halk komiseri Joseph Stalin, sosya..

The 10th year of the DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival is taking place online from October 1-10, with literature, live music, and film programming available in DC, MD, VA, the U.S. at large, and worldwide! Featuring 19 films, a book talk with award-winning

On the eve of the Israeli government's plans to annex parts of the West Bank, Jadaliyya co-Editor Noura Erakat explains the context for these plans, how they are made possible, and the short and long-term effects they will have on Pale..

This discussion between Noah Black and Artist Zeinab Saab traces the journey of Zeinab as an artist over the course of shifting through several mediums. They touch on the themes in Zeinab's work as well as how the context of an artist drives their creative process.

Engaging Books is a returning series that features books by various publishers on a given theme, along with an excerpt from each volume. This installment involves a selection from Saqi Books on the theme of art and literature in Palestine. Other publisher..

The American University of Beirut invites applications for its Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowships in the Arts and Humanities, which begins in September 2019. The duration of appointment will be 10 months. Appointees will be attached to a relevant department and will be e..

David Habchy, one of the founders of the NGO and a Lebanese multimedia artist, describes WARAQ as a space that allows for a deeper experimentation of artistic processes and a challenge to the idea of the artist as an isolated maker.

Exhibition of photography, installations, performances, talks, and film screenings at Beit Beirut and Metropolis Cinema.

Aesthetics Afterlives: Memory, Transfiguration and the Arts

9-10 September
Princeton University

Keynote Speaker: Jonathan Holloway,
Dean of Yale College and Professor of History and African American Studies

The last four decades have..

Al-Mutanabbi Street Starts Here DC 2016 presents a series of films from Iraq and the Arab and Muslim worlds with follow-up conversations. The films and discussions will explore freedom of expression, restoring identity from destruction/abandonment, and conveying how literature and daily life in ..

Paul Aarts and Carolien Roelants, Saudia Arabia: A Kingdom in Peril. London: Hurst, 2015.

J: What made you write this book?

Paul Aarts (PA): Two years ago I had a chance to vis..

Tunisia’s democratic transition has been idealized as the bright light of the Arab Uprisings. In addition to avoiding the bloody crackdowns of Egypt, Libya, and Syria, the country held the promise of making real gains on the issues of soci..

A pioneering painter who also taught at the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Damascus between 1966 and 1987, Moustafa Fathi (1942-2009) was widely respected for his research of Levantine folk art in addition to his analysis of Syrian visual culture as a complete record of social advancement t..

The DC Palestinian Film and Arts Festival (DCPFAF) is pleased to announce the full program for the fifth annual festival, which will take place between 1-4 October 2015. The festival will feature ten films, discussions with filmmakers from..

In this interview, Downtown Contemporary Arts Festival