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Several years ago, I learned about a young Syrian man who was bayonetted at a labor strike. At the time, I was a new PhD student and a recent arrival to Boston, thirty miles from Lawrence, Massachusetts, where John Ramey was killed by a state militiaman in 1912..

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..

Beauty is a long-standing keyword of feminist debate, but it is also a global, consistently growing multibillion market. I long wanted to study beauty norms and practices from a critical, ethnographic perspective.

In this talk, Hesham Sallam will discuss his recent book Classless Politics: Islamist Movements, the Left, and Authoritarian Legacies in Egypt (Columbia University Press, 2022). The book offers a counterint..

On Tuesday, 18 October, Jadaliyya Co-Editor Mouin Rabbani and Hesham Sallam discussed class and identity politics in Egypt. This episode of Connections examines the interplay between class, identity, and the state in contemporary Egypt, and how these dynamics contribute to the persistence of aut..

Join us on Tuesday, 18 October for a discussion about Egypt with Hesham Sallam. This episode of Connections will examine the interplay between class, identity, and the state in contemporary Egypt, and how these dynamics contribute to the persistence of authoritarian rule and weak..

The first episode of Search Files features a discussion on data visualization of academic knowledge production and addresses approaches to teaching films in the classroom.

Search Files covers trends in knowledge production and pedagogy on the Middle East and North Africa based on a constantly evolving dataset and pedagogic research. The Knowledge Production Project and Middle East Studies Pedagogy Initiative teams of the Arab Studies Institute w..

22 September marked the fortieth anniversary of the start of the Iran-Iraq War. When my mother tells me how a blast from a missile claimed her uncle’s life in Khuzestan, I know the war is still with her. She still remembers how her family’s home in Tehran became a refuge to dozens of our relativ..

Calls for refining jurisprudential heritage usually dominate the constant debate on the renewal of religious discourse. Religious discourse has been the subject of many conflicts between the regime and the grand sheikh of al-Azhar, following accusations directed against the latter for failing to..

Often when Muslims take a gender biased position or engage in sexist practices, they do not do so by first checking with the Islamic scriptural or intellectual traditions. Yet many Muslims justify patriarchal beliefs and practices using those traditions on a po..

Contrary to a popular view that has become entrenched in media and certain academic trends, the emergence of luxury spaces is not about an all-inclusive Iranian desire for a better life in the all-too heroic act of cultural resistance, simplistically described as “lipstick jihad.” Rather, such s..

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..

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. 

Following this year’s “Throne Day” speech on 29 July 2017, commentators were unanimous: Morocco’s King Mohammed VI’s offensive against political parties was more violent than ever. In Morocco, however, the “crisis,” “weakness,” and “dysfunction” of parties is a repeated refrain. After the ..

Following the 1989 release of the first Iran-related volume of the State Department’s Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series, a plethora of books and articles have been written detailing the MI6-CIA coup d’état in Iran on 19 August 1953. The coup resulted in the ouster of th..

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib, A Taste for Home: The Modern Middle Class in Ottoman Beirut. Stanford University Press, 2017.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Toufoul Abou-Hodeib (TAH): The book sta..

Early on in Donald Trump’s bid to be the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States, he pledged to

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Sherene Seikaly, Men of Capital: Scarcity and Economy in Mandate Palestine. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015.

Jadaliyya (J): What made you write this book?

Sherene Seikaly (SS):

On September 16^th, 2015, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) formally declassified roughly twenty-five hundred President’s Daily Briefs (PDBs) from the Kennedy and Johnson administrations between 1961 and 1969. These documents are now accessible in the CIA’s Freedom of Information A..

The CIA operates armed drones to engage in targeted killing operations in Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. That is known. But, to borrow from former Secretary of Defense Donald

The declassifed document below was obtained as part of a document trove secured by the right-wing institution, Judicial Watch. It 

On 11 February, 2011, I stood in Tahrir Square surrounded by millions celebrating the toppling of Mubarak following eighteen solid days of battle. Around me were people from all walks of life: Saʿidis (Upper Egyptians) who came all the way from the south, street children turned rebels, fa..