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Immediately after 2013, I realized that the more Egypt took center stage as an economic and political partner from a Western perspective, and especially from EU member states, the more the game of political and diplomatic moral neoliberalism unfolded, while rea..

On 20 June 2013, Jadaliyya launched the Turkey Page. As the Page Editors noted at the time, we set out on our work “in the midst of ongoing violence unleashed by municipal and state authorities in Turkey against protesters” throughout the country—but also, as one of the page’s founding ..

University students across the country have sounded the alarm on the devastation of Israel’s war on Gaza, and on Palestine more generally. The campus protests have drawn public attention to the extremism of Israel’s response to the awfulness of October 7, and its designs on Palestinians’ future...

In February 2009, when I was an MA student in Islamic Studies in Berlin, I joined an excursion to Jeddah organized by Professor Ulrike Freitag. Jeddah was not at all what I had expected! I was so charmed by the place that I decided to return on my own six month..

In many ways my new book was a natural progression from my previous monograph, Political Repression in Bahrain. Political repression is all about how hegemonic forces attempt to weaken or destroy social movements and opposition, and a key ..

Changes and continuities in the authoritarian character of Turkey's political regime during the AKP era (from 2002 to the present) have been subject to intense debate and controversy over the last decade. The disagreement among democratic forces seeking to reshape the unjust social and political..

In late June 2020 the Trump administration deployed federal troops to Portland, Oregon, claiming it needed to restore order to a city riven by chaos and violence. The deployment in fact led to a sharp increase in violence, overwhelmingly by the federal forces themselves, as well as the use of po..

I was intrigued by the relative stability of authoritarian rule in Jordan, and that the country was also one of the highest recipients of US and European “democracy promotion” funding worldwide. This prompted me to question what all those “democracy promoters” ..

As a Palestinian, the conditions of stagnation and malaise that seemed to be increasing in Palestine were obviously at the forefront of my mind. So, I knew I wanted to research some aspect of that stagnation.

I was born and raised in Turkey. My father was a politician and an intellectual; with his influence, I started to grapple at an early age with questions about the gap in development between the Muslim world and the West.

I want a database for the refugees that—if they come in the country. We have no idea who these people are. When the Syrian refugees are going to start pouring into this country, we do not know if they are ISIS; we do not know if it is a Troj..

Turkish voters sent a strong message to its long-standing ruling party and its leader on 31 March 2019 that the government’s authoritarian turn has not fully succeeded. In nationwide municipal elections, for the first time in a quarter century, the political movement largely associated with Turk..

Ten years ago, when I first arrived in Morocco, urban society was experiencing some drastic changes. Local media was talking about a kind of “urban revolution” following the launch of several megaprojects such as Tanger Med, Casablanca Marina, and the Bouregreg proje..

Critical questions about authoritarianism in the Middle East can best be approached with a grounding in the comparative study of authoritarianism writ large. What defines a regime as authoritarian? What are some of the principal forms authoritarianism takes? What factors help us make sense of ho..

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.

Jordan currently ranks among the highest recipients of US foreign aid worldwide, both in absolute terms and particularly so on a per capita basis. Besides military and economic support, Jordan has over the past years also been the target of..

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.

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

Conversations on the BDS movement in New Orleans, new developments in Gaza, and the story of renowned Algerian activist Mme Zohra Drif are some of the highlights in this collection of audio and video pieces.