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We wrote this report to challenge the erasure of Arab Americans in nearly every area of society striving for diversity and racial justice. For too long, Arab Americans have been positioned between hypervisibility (singled out through racial profiling and discri..

Dr. Halim Barakat was a celebrated novelist, a prolific scholar, and a public intellectual committed to social justice, equality, and freedom in the Arab World— especially in his beloved Syria and Lebanon. His novels boldly engaged the biggest public debates, as well as the most deeply personal ..

September 11 put Afghanistan at the center of world attention and reminded Afghans of the forgotten process of democratic nation-building. The process, initiated by the international community, was both ambitious and ambiguous and failed to achieve its aims. The result was not just a new failed ..

According to Benjamin Barber (2013), cities are typically the space where citizens exercise their citizenship rights and express their democratic freedoms in developed countries with major industrial economies. In Afghanistan, however, impoverished rural villagers, who lack economic opportunitie..

This project was inspired by my grandmother. In 1971, she, along with my mother who was twelve years old at the time, had to flee East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) due to civil war. A widow and already ultra-poor, she was working at a restaurant to take care of he..

This book, which is based on my doctoral dissertation, is a social biography of one of the most iconic figures in the history of the Arab world, the intellectual and educator Taha Hussein (1889-1973). Known as the “Dean of Arabic Literature” for his remarkable ..

Jadaliyya co-editor Sherene Seikaly will lead a conversation with Kareem Rabie discussing his new book Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank followed by a Q&A session with the audience. Purchase with 30% off coupon: E21RABIE..

Last year, a broad debate surrounded director Ziad Doueiri’s film The Insult, especially after it was nominated for the 2018 Oscar for best foreign language film. This was the first time that a Lebanese film has been shortlisted for an Oscar. 

I wrote this book to shed light on the rich and unique social history of feminisms in Iraq as well as on Iraqi women’s original social, economic, intellectual, and political trajectories since the formation of the modern Iraqi state in the 1920s. I also wrote it to e..

There are many question marks over the impact of Taha Husayn’s works and intentions. Decades after his death, he continues to provoke heated reactions among many people, including Arab and Western scholars. Some glorify him as a first-class “enlighte..

The Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM) Calls on Palestinian/Arab Youth to apply to participate in:

The 2nd Palestinian/Arab Youth Summer School 2017: Political Education and Transnational Movement Building

The Summer School will be held from July 22th to July 30th..

In a world of rapidly modernizing and globalizing cities, Beirut does not stand out as an exception. Spreading citywide since the early 2000s is an urban renewal process sparked by a well-resourced Lebanese diaspora and foreign investors, and influenced by an..

Sijal Institute for Arabic Language and Culture presents

Rethinking the History of State Building in Lebanon

The students of the Master Program "Governing the Large Metropolis" at the University of SciencesPo Paris have released

Cedric de Leon, Manali Desai, and Cihan Tuğal, editors, Building Blocs: How Parties Organize Society. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you put together this book?<..

The Arab American Educational Foundation (AAEF) Lecture Series presents:

Beyond Exceptionalism: Institution Building and Political Organization in Early Independence Lebanon

A Lecture by Ziad Abu-Rish

Much of the academ..

In this interview with Status/الوضع host Moe Ali Nayel, Hana Sleiman takes Status deep below the American University in Beirut bu..

I feel compelled to snap a picture of every angle, corner, and inch of whatever I lay my eyes on, especially within the urban environment. Much has changed in Amman over the years with the construction of new buildings and the introduction of new styles, structures, and patterns. I capture..

In the near three decades that I have been involved with Gaza and her people, I have never seen the kind of physical and psychological destruction that I see there today.

The Netherlands Institute for International Relations (Clingendael) features a paper authored by Omar Abdulaziz Hallaj entitled The Balance-Sheet of Conflict: Criminal Revenues and..

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

The stances taken by Lebanon’s Public Health Minister Wael Abou Faour in November 2014 took the country by surprise. Departing completely from the norm, Abou Faour published lists of actual businesses that have persisted i..

“Cairo Past Futures” consists of twenty-four photographs, each combined with a headline extracted from the Egyptian press of the 1950s and 60s. Headlines like “This is Tomorrow’s Cairo” and “Urban Planning in the Era of Revolution” are superimposed on images of contemporary Cairo depicting scene..

Identity, Sovereignty, and Global Politics in the Building of Baghdad:
From Revolution through the Gulf War and Beyond
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, September 18-20, 2014

Using the history of urban development in Baghdad a..