Search Results For “ challenges ” 40 articles

The inspiration for this book came from a desire to better understand the often controversial role that sexualities play in the context of MENA politics, religions, peoples, and lived experiences, including prejudices and discriminations. As much an effort of s..

Last March marked the 20th anniversary of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, promoted at that time as a reprisal for the attacks of September 11, 2001, and a vital military campaign within the broader ‘Global War on Terror’ (GWOT). Today, while many students born after 9/11 see these inaugural ev..

The following interview was conducted by Otmane Amagour with Hicham Alaoui, Research Associate at Harvard University’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, on his recently released volume Security Assista..

A lot of the writing on climate change, the ecological crisis, and the energy transition in North Africa and the Arab region is dominated by international neoliberal institutions. Their analyses are biased and leave out questions of class, race, gender, justice..

As the authors of the article Beyond Feminism? Jineolojî and the Kurdish Women’s Freedom Movement, we would like to respond to the letter written by the Jineolojî Committee Europe. Given recent developments in Palestine, particularly the onslaught on Gaza and the Sheikh Jarrah neighbourhood in J..

This contribution is based on an open-access article I recently published with the European Journal for Women’s Studies for their special issue on feminisms in the Global South. In the article, I address the gen..

For scholars and analysts of Algeria, this is both a fascinating and worrying time. Many of us have an emotional connection to the country and personal attachments to friends and colleagues involved in the Hirak. Many of us are also anxious about the possibility that state viole..

Eric Verdeil , Ghaleb Faour and Mouin Hamzé recentl..

The deadline to submit is 20 January 2019. The workshop will be held in Cambridge on 15-18 July 2019.

My primary motivations for editing this book arose from the needs and struggles of students in my qualitative research methods graduate course. First of all, I wanted a way to address students’ questions and anxieties about conducting field research for the first tim..

This edited book is a compilation of nineteen essays and was written by academics who met at a conference of the Kuwait Chair at Sciences Po in Paris last March to discuss their research findings.

Thought pieces from academics making the decision to leave the academy have increased in number over the recent years. Al-Diwan brings you a small selection of articles and blog posts from such scholars as they highlight the complexities in choosing to leave academia and why they have made t..

Jonathan A.C. Brown, Misquoting Muhammad: The Challenges and Choices of Interpreting the Prophet’s Legacy. London: Oneworld Publication..

The Middle East Studies Graduate Forum at Rutgers University hosted “Researching the Middle East after 2011: Challenges, Queries, and Questions” on 17 October 2014. The day-long collaborative, interdisciplinary symposium brought twenty scholars from eleven universities together to discuss produc..

In this debate on Fox News, UNRWA Spokesperson Christopher Gunness  and the Center for Near East Policy Research`s David Bedein debate the issue of the role of UNRWA in Gaza and US funding for the "reconstruction" of Gaza. The power of this debate is the manner with which Gunness&..

Tunisia will go to the polls on 26 October in order to decide the composition of the new parliament and the new political balance that will determine the next phases of political transition. Since the uprising, there have been many and important steps toward real political and institutional chan..

As both on-the-ground pressure in the Gaza Strip and diplomacy inexorably move towards a ceasefire, the eyes of the world have been fixed upon the mounting casualty toll suffered by the territory’s 1.8 million inhabitants. The scale and intensity of the Israeli offensive, now in its fourth week,..

[The following report was published by the Gulf Center for Human Rights on 1 March 2014]

Rising Human Rights Challenges in the Gulf Region and Beyond: Annual Report of the Gulf Center for Human Rights 2014

“Freedom of Expression in Turkey: Problems and Challenges”

LSE Contemporary Turkish Studies Conference

MONDAY, 3 MARCH 2014 18:00-20:00

Right to Housing is an initiative that aims to link contemporary urban challenges with the notion of the “right to housing,” which, if that right is constitutionally protected and guaranteed, urban activists argue, could lead to the drafting of policies that will respond to the many neg..

<!--/* Font Definitions */@font-face{font-family:Times;panose-1:2 0 5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0;mso-font-charset:0;mso-generic-font-family:auto;mso-font-pitch:variable;mso-font-signature:3 0 0 0 1 0;}@font-face{font-family:Cambria;panose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;mso-font-charset:0;mso-..

[The following recommendations were issued by the Lebanese Center for Policy Studies (LCPS) on 20 June 2013.]

The Challenges of Managing the Influx of Syrian Refugees 

Roundtable ..

[The following report was issued by Doctors Without Borders on 30 April 2013.]  

Healing Iraqis: The Challenges of Providing Mental Health..