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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 ..

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..

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..

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..

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..