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This conversation focuses on Long Form’s primary theme, an exploration of whether this historical moment represents the disintegration of the global order establish..

This panel will address continuities and anticipated change in U.S.-Middle East policy under the second Trump administration. What will this mean for the region and what for the United States? Our speakers will also provide an overview of how U.S. Foreign Policy is perceived from both Palestine ..

Within the fields of French history and French colonial history, there has been so much scholarship on colonial Algeria, yet both fields have been largely silent on Algerian women, particularly before the War of Independence (1954-1962).

The impetus behind writing this book stemmed from our recognition of the profound ways in which the digital revolution has impacted the Middle East. The peculiarities of the ongoing changes were such that we felt a pressing need for a deeper understanding of ho..

On 18 September 2023, the United States and Iran exchanged a total of ten prisoners as part of a deal in which Washington additionally provided sanctions waivers to enable South Korea to transfer payment for oil it had previously purchased from Iran into restricted accounts in Qatar. Mouin Rabba..

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..

From the outset of its tenure, the administration of US President Joe Biden has been averse to engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian file, particularly where the expenditure of political capital might be required. Initially, Biden chose to focus US efforts in the Middle East on Iran, and negot..

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..

On Wednesday, 11 January Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with Gideon Levy discussed about Israel’s new government. This episode of Connections focuses on the Netanyahu government’s program, and examine its various policies in the context of those of its predecessors.

Join us on Wednesday, 11 January for a discussion about Israel’s new government with Gideon Levy and Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani. This episode of Connections will focus on the Netanyahu government’s program, and examine its various policies in the context of those of its pr..

It is again the time when the nearly 30,000 mostly Palestinian employees of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) wonder whether they will receive their salaries for the remainder of the year. For many years, UNRWA has been struggling with an ..

For many of us interested in material culture, objects themselves—visual, haptic, even olfactory—are as compelling as the stories they tell.

There was a spike in interest in textbook and curriculum studies in Egypt following the 2011 uprising—perhaps because of the public’s interest in identity, education reform, and current affairs at the time. So, prior to writing the article, both of us had worke..

This roundtable is a conversation about how anthropology, history, and comparative literature, and the interpretive social sciences and humanities more broadly, are addressing the climate crisis as it pertains to the Middle East. By bringing together scholars who work directly on the climate cri..

Scholars of the history of oil have a responsibility to put the climate crisis at the center of their research and teaching. Discussions of climate change should flow naturally from the ongoing trend of political, social, and cultural histories and historical ethnographies of the Middle East tha..

Over the past decades, a climate-conflict nexus emerged, increasingly making reference to the Syrian conflict. According to this logic, climate change caused the 2006-2010 drought in Syria, the drought caused agricultural failure, agricultural failure caused poverty and discontent cul..

Nadia Christidi explains how an anthropological approach can help us understand the political practices and economic rationalities of water governance based on her fieldwork in Dubai. Danya Al-Saleh is welcomed on as a guest host.

Five years into a crushing civil war and Saudi-led military intervention, Yemen has been devastated by what is considered the world’s largest humanitarian crisis. 24.1 million people, eighty percent of the population, are in need of humanitarian aid and protection according to the United Nations..

Jadaliyya Co-Editor Bassam Haddad interviews Syria Page Co-Editors Omar Dahi and Rabie Nasser about the recently released report: “Roots, Dynamics, and Pathways for Change.” Omar Dahi, the lead author of the paper which was prepared for the Syrian Center for Policy Research (SCPR), summarizes it..

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation which I completed at the University of Oxford. It all started with an empirical puzzle: two seemingly similar semi–authoritarian monarchies like Morocco and Jordan vary in how they engage in family law reform over ..

This edition of the "Environment in Context" podcast discusses the role of Islamic financing in the development of the global Green Bond industry. In June 2017, Malaysia was the first country in the world to issue a green sukuk in order to finance a solar power plant. Sukuk are asset-backed fina..

In 2011, the Arab Spring followed by the Syrian uprising took everyone by surprise. Demanding social justice and equal opportunity, the Syrian Revolution turned into a national uprising. Soon dreams of change and hope became a tragedy.