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On 8 January 2009, while reading the daily news from local media in Turkey’s Kurdistan, I was astounded by a brief clip from Antep. None of it seemed to make sense. It reported that three days earlier, on 5 January, Turkish security forces in Gaziantep had stop..

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..

I come to Palestine with questions about borders. That national borders are spaces of state violence is not new information. But, the current graphic articulation of borders as exertion of state power is breathtaking. The violence of mundane forms of settler-colonialism comes together with what ..

Historians are of course a product of historical circumstances, and I am no different. I conceived of, researched, and wrote this book in the shadow of the Iraq War, the 2008 financial crisis, and the Arab Spring and Gezi Park protests. I wanted to think about ..

This volume is one of the most important outcomes of an ongoing research project (BORDER) on borders and state formation in the post-Ottoman Middle East, funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and hosted at the History Department at the University of Neu..

The Black Mediterranean owes its inception, not just its inspiration, to Paul Gilroy’s 1990 volume, The Black Atlantic, whereby the trope of the Middle Passage grapples with constructing a counterculture of modernity. The Mediterranean Sea, the contributors to this vol..

On Friday, 8 October at 9:30 AM Pacific Time, Dr. Ahmad Mohammadpour of the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Dr. Dilan Okcuoglu of American University, and Dr. Basileus Zeno of Amherst College will present on their respective research in Iran, Turkey, and Syria in this event co-sponsored by ..

I wanted to go beyond a number of impasses that emerge in discussions about Iran. One is the narrative about Iran as a static space that can only be understood through a repressive state apparatus.

In late February, amid the catastrophic spread of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) in the Islamic Republic of Iran, relatives of several of Iran’s prisoners of conscience wrote an open letter to Chief Justice Ebrahim Raisi demanding the imm..

This article grew out of my broader research on transnational and Syrian-Lebanese diasporic engagement with the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927. The particular focus on the spread of the revolt to Rashaya in southern Lebanon and its transnational connections became obviou..

Gustavo Chávez Pavón, an artist from Mexico City and a cultural promoter in the Zapatista muralist movement, painted a mural on the apartheid wall near checkpoint 300 at the northern entrance of Bethlehem in 2004. In an interview from 1 April 2008 about what Palestinians think about the painting..

September’s independence referendum in Iraqi Kurdistan has pushed Baghdad to take control of Kirkuk and its oil fields from Kurdish control. To avert the threat of further direct confrontation, the two sides must agree to a reinvigorated UN-led effort to settle longstanding disputes over i..

For Maral G. H. (2004-2016)

Cancer, I have learned, insists on the visibility of ethnic belonging.[1]

Cancer shrinks the topography of one’s worl..

On 3 May 2017, Iran, Turkey, and Russia signed a proposal in Astana for the creation of “de-escalation zones” in Syria.  Fighting—including aerial attacks—would cease and humanitarian assistance would be made available. One such de-escalation zone already exists under the military control ..

This map (Fig.1) shows a section of modern Cairo in 1946, developed from the 1860s onwards to the west of the historic city (founded 969 C.E.). The map focuses on the downtown area or roughly what came to be called Wist al-Balad—the middle-of-the-city (country?)—c..

Three days into 2016, the European border crisis claimed its first victim: a tw..

Call for Papers: The Geographies of Bodies and Borders

The deadline for submission is July 18, 2016.

We are pleased to invite submissions for the fourth issue of Kohl: a Journal for Body and Gender Research, slated for public..

[The following statement was issued by Medicins Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) on 29 April 2016.]

Syria: Update on Airstrikes at Al Quds Hospital

The situation in ..

[The following announcement was shared with Jadaliyya by Doctors without Borders.]

Doctors without Borders (MSF) recently held a press conference in Geneva to speak on the bombing of a hospital in Idlib earlier this week. To coincide with this, MSF is also releasing a report in re..

This special issue explores questions concerning the politics and poetics of literary texts that respond to individual and collective experiences of suffering in the Maghreb and beyond. The greater Maghreb, extending from Egypt to Morocco and parts of sub-Saharan Africa, has been the site of dra..

[The following press release on the seige of Madaya, Syria was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 7 January 2016 and updated on 8 January 2016]

Syria: Seige and Starvation in Ma..

Borders Are There to Be Crossed

The International Book Fair in Torino, the second largest Book Fair in Europe, has announced that Saudi Arabia will no longer be the guest of honour in its 2016 event. Instead, next year’s fair will..

[This article is the second in a two-part series on the making of Iraq`s borders. Click here to read Part 1.]

It may be that no modern nation-state has been called “artificial” more times than Iraq. While most scholars are quick to admit that all nation-states are artificial, in the sense that they are created by humans, Iraq, it would seem, is more artificial than most. The story invariably begin..