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I see this collection as the antithesis of erasure. Sleeping in the Courtyard compiles creative work by contemporary Kurdish women and nonbinary writers living in Kurdistan and in diaspora. 

While these pro-Zionist narratives have been developing for many years in the Iranian diaspora, most notably among monarchists, their impact has become even more problematic since October 7, 2023. Despite the dominance of this narrative, there are many Iranian-Americans who do maintain a pro-Pal..

I have a background in the history of religions and in Middle Eastern studies, particularly focusing on modern Iran and Turkey. Through personal contacts with Iranians in the diaspora, I became familiar with the phenomenon of Iranian diaspora churches.

This project originated in the Society for Armenian Studies conference “‘Diaspora and Stateless Power’: Social Discipline and Identity Formation Across the Armenian Diaspora during the Long Twentieth Century” that was held at the University of California, Los A..

I started working on Zoya Pirzad’s stories and novel in 2012 and published two articles on her works. But it was not until 2018—when I was invited to present on the contributions of Iranian Armenians to the Iran-Iraq war efforts at the Association of Iranian St..

During my first return to a Coptic Orthodox Church following a long pandemic-induced hiatus, a priest at a local parish in Ottawa, Canada, excitedly handed me a two-volume book titled Elements: The Transfiguration of Elijah, Earth & Water (volume I) and Wind & Fire (vol..

I grew up listening to the music of Fairouz through my parents who would start their days by playing her songs. However, she became more meaningful to me as I left home to pursue my degrees in higher education. There was a particular moment I remember when I wa..

The project was initially triggered by my desire to have a conversation, deeply personal but also broad, with a group of women, whom I admired and who had never been considered together. In a way, with this book, I also wanted to contribute to shifting the atte..

When I began researching social movements and protest events in the Middle East and North Africa, I was absolutely awed to learn about the extraordinary risks that activists were taking to advocate for democracy, human rights, and basic social provisions. In an..

In this talk, Stacy Fahrenthold examines the politics of Syrian and Lebanese migration during the First World War. Some half-million Arab migrants, nearly all still subjects of the Ottoman Empire, lived i..

I set out to explore the literature of Arab women writers in the diaspora—a topic that has not been addressed by other researchers. Of course, these women were recognized individually but not as part of a collective that acknowledged their unique experience of ..

Following a statement made after the brutal murder of George Floyd at the hands of the Minneapolis police, between July 10th and July 24th, 2020, Mizna with the US-based organizations including the Imagining Transnational Solidarities Research Circle at the University of Minnesota, and Arab Reso..

This book grew out of many conversations I had with friends and colleagues about Armenians in Lebanon while living in Beirut. These conversations initially were not geared towards something scholarly: they were about the contemporary situation of Armenians in S..

In April 2020, a Saudi Arabian comedy show, Makhraj 7, caused controversy when an actor advocated for normalization with Israel. Palestinians were framed as an enemy who did not appreciate Saudi Arabia’s previous support. The hashtag #PalestineMyCause  فلسطين_قضيتي# appeared in my Twitter feed o..

This discussion between Noah Black and Artist Zeinab Saab traces the journey of Zeinab as an artist over the course of shifting through several mediums. They touch on the themes in Zeinab's work as well as how the context of an artist drives their creative process.

The book, My Shadow Is My Skin: Voices from the Iranian Diaspora, was born out of a writing workshop on Iranian identity taught by Persis Karim and Anita Amirrezvani in 2015 in Berkeley, CA. We both came to the workshop with deeply persona..

This book addresses the contribution of art to democracy. More specifically, it examines the contribution of Iranian women in the diaspora to artistic and literary production, and how this contribution can be political as well as aesthetic. 

I came to migration history originally because I was motivated by silences I observed in place-based histories and I wanted to examine how, when, and why migrants are removed from the historical record. I was unsatisfied with narratives of migration that begin ..

This article grew out of my broader research on transnational and Syrian-Lebanese diasporic engagement with the Syrian Revolt of 1925-1927. The particular focus on the spread of the revolt to Rashaya in southern Lebanon and its transnational connections became obviou..

While hand-made Persian carpets remain a luxury item for many, machine-made rugs with Persian carpet designs are advertised for a relatively affordable price on websites that make this commodity easily available to those who desire this object for its nostalgic value, its Orientalized meaning, o..

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The day is near. This coming Sunday, 16 April 2017, citizens of Turkey will make their way to the polls to vote on a constitutional referendum that will inexorably alter the Turkish government. The referendum, which consists of eighteen proposed ame..

Anthony Gorman and Sossie Kasbarian, editors, Diasporas of the Modern Middle East: Contextualizing Community. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Universtiry Press, 2015.

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Iraqi Odyssey: A Global Family Saga by Samir

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