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As a diasporic Moroccan woman living in the US and a scholar of the transnational politics of affect, gender, and sexuality, watching the broadcast and media coverage of the Moroccan football team in the 2022 World Cup was to experience an exhilarating, liberatory, and soul-nurturing sense of re..

In Episode 7 of the Real Football Podcast, our hosts discussed the potential winners, failures, and ceilings of the 2022 World Cup field including the last hurrahs of Messi's Argentina and Ronaldo's Portugal. Also covered is the enigma of France, whether host nation Qatar, Gareth Bale or Christi..

Ali Riza Gungen will discuss financial inclusion in Turkey and the political ramifications of household indebtedness. His book locates financial inclusion within a shift in the developmental outlook in the 21st century and documents the Turkish economy's slow drift into crisis in the late 2010s,..

In 2010 I started a research project that examined the relationship between families and cities. Urban studies has often thought about cities as spaces that (crudely put) destroy family life.

The developments that Egypt witnessed in September revealed an odd mix of intense repression and state violence on the one hand and tangible regime fragility on the other. The contractor/actor-turned-revolutionary Mohamed Ali appeared in a series of YouTube videos disclosing what he alleged to b..

The political system in Jordan features 101 municipalities. More than half of Jordan’s municipalities are currently experiencing an acute deficit and concomitant high degree of indebtedness. In 2017, the total municipal debt amounted to 130 million dinars. Many municipalities spend most of their..

Once again an impending but avoidable humanitarian tragedy is looming over Syria. Last Thursday, Bashar al-Assad’s forces dropped leaflets over one of the last rebel strongholds—Idlib province—urging residents to surrender to his rule and telling them the seven-year war was nearing its end. A wa..

There are no official statistics on the numbers of Lebanese who have emigrated and are working abroad, nor on the immense sums of money they transfer to their home country. According to World Bank estimates, remittances comprised between

What do the struggles of the Greek people have in common with those of the Haitian slaves at the end of the eighteenth century or those of the Algerians in the middle of the twentieth century? Of course, these struggles are incomparable in many ways, but there is one important parallel that can ..

A recent advertisement for a Bank of Palestine savings scheme, reproduced on billboards and in magazines all over the Ramallah-al-Bireh-Beitounia conurbation (hereafter Ramallah), tells residents “Together We Are a Family.” We are clearly meant to think that the Bank of Palestine wants, or consi..

[This interview is the result of a month-long email conversation between the activists of Gulf Ultra Luxury Faction (G.U.L.F.) and Jadaliyya`s Arabian Peninsula page editorial team.]

Nate Christensen and John Warner (NC and JW): Can you give us a brief introducti..

[The following statement was issued by members of the Occupy Wall Street and Strike Debt movements. It was originally published in the fourth issue of Tidal magazine on 22 February 2013.] 

Right in the place whe..

The journalist, uneasy, risked his question: “Do you have any fears that there is perhaps a far left movement coming through these revolutions that perhaps want more closed economies? I mean, there have been a lot of pictures of Guevara.” At a

[The following press release was issued by the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt`s Debt on 1 April, 2012]

The end of the Mubarak dictatorship left Egypt with a heavy legacy of failed economic policies and a misshaped sovereign debt management with projects not necessarily be..

[The following press release was issued by the Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt`s Debt on 20 March 2012.]

[The following statement was issued on 16 March 2012 by a diverse group of European parliamentarians calling for an audit of Tunisia`s debt to the European Union.]

With dictator Ben Ali ousted ..

“In the transition from an oligarchy or a tyranny to a democracy…persons refuse to fulfill their contracts or any other obligations, on the ground that the tyrant, and not the state, contracted them”—Aristotle...

Press Release

Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt`s Debt

Four Events Worldwide Mark the Global Day for the Cancellation of Egypt`s Debt

The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts
“You Pay, You Monitor”

Founding Statement

The Popular Campaign to Drop Egypt’s Debts was conceived as part of the January 25th Revolution, and affirms the right of the..

Under the heat of the warm sun on a late summer Saturday, I left my house in Vila Real and travelled the one hundred kilometers that separate it from Porto, Portugal’s second biggest city, where a demonstration of the Fifteenth of October Movement was supposed to take place. Here in my hometown,..