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This interdisciplinary workshop will explore how intellectuals across the Middle East and North Africa have reckoned with the multiple legacies of colonial rule, with a particular focus on the relationship between movements in the Mashreq and Maghreb. We invite participants to reflect on modern ..

The book is the result of a collaborative research project, Mapping Memories of Resistance: The Untold Story of the Occupation of the Golan Heights, involving the Department of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics an..

Many years ago, I trained and worked in archaeology, including in Egypt. I spent large parts of 2005 to 2008 in the country, where I also studied Arabic. I became interested in how contemporary archaeological and heritage practices there—at the time dominated b..

My impulse to write this book emerged from the quite basic observation, made on my first visit to Palestine, that, while I had read a lot of analysis about Israel’s total immobilization of Palestinians, Palestinians were moving around anyway.

The failure of the two-state solution to bring about an end to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is what motivated me to write this book and invite various young Palestinian scholars to contribute to it.

I was initially interested in writing about something else related to the aftermath of the 1967 war. I wanted to understand the cultural subject of this defeat and dig through the ruins. For that end, I started combing through the intellectual record of the pre..

WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 12:00PM 
JOHNSON CENTER, ROOM G (2ND FLOOR) 
GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY

Earlier this month, a British university hosted a conference on the fiftieth anniversary of the Israeli occupation, one of many being organized this year. The conference sought to reflect on fifty years of the “longest standing military occupation in the world,” focusing on “its implications not..

Gary Wilder, Freedom Time: Negritude, Decolonization, and the Future of the World. Durham: Duke University Press, 2015.

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

Gary Wilder (GW..

In the newspapers of late, words about a renewed peace process have filled column space. In the streets of Aida Refugee Camp, Bethlehem, in the West Bank, families read the political scene differently. They listen in the middle of the night for the clatter of soldiers’ boots coming down their st..

The settlement project in the West Bank is not just a collection of rickety caravans installed on Palestinian farmland that can be dismantled upon the signing of a peace agreement.  Costing seventeen billion USD and populated by more than half a million Israelis, this enterprise has become ..

Critics of Israeli pinkwashing in the United States and Canada have increasingly engaged in comparative critiques of settler colonialism. Queers Against Israeli Apartheid in Toronto has invoked this critique for many years. Pinkwat..

As therapists, activists, and scholars who have worked with abused women, and conducted social anthropological studies on the killing of women in Palestinian society, we decided to respond to the article by Lila Abu-Lughod and Maya Mikdashi,

Today, I walked onto an Israeli settlement for the first time in my life, one where most of the land it stands on once belonged to my grandfather. I needed the settlers’ permission to walk onto this soil. As I walked down the sidewalk, I felt alienation and contentment all at once. The first for..

I met Houria Bouteldja in Paris, France at the Institut du Monde Arabe, a building whose architectural majesty overcasts those around it, including the Notre Dame. Although it was built to raise cultural awareness (and in accordance with eighteen Arab count..

Albert Memmi, Decolonization and the Decolonized. Minneapolis & London: University of Minnesota Press, 2006. 

“What? Post-colonialism? Have they left?”
- Ab..

The color of the Jaffa sea was reflected in his blue eyes so that they were even bluer. He had six decades behind him and was in his seventh, but was still laboring as a construction worker in order to pay for his youngest son`s tuition at Tel-Aviv University. The campus of Tel-Aviv university i..

Two years have passed since the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish (1941-2008) died at a hospital in Texas from complication of heart surgery on August 9, 2008. His death left a considerable void in Palestine and the Arab world. He wa..