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The impetus behind writing this book stemmed from our recognition of the profound ways in which the digital revolution has impacted the Middle East. The peculiarities of the ongoing changes were such that we felt a pressing need for a deeper understanding of ho..

My PhD thesis, submitted in 2014, explored the evolution of the online debate in post-revolutionary Tunisia and Egypt. This initial work focused on the politization of the local social media sphere during the first electoral campaigns and constitutional referen..

In many ways my new book was a natural progression from my previous monograph, Political Repression in Bahrain. Political repression is all about how hegemonic forces attempt to weaken or destroy social movements and opposition, and a key ..

Since 2004, I have heard increasing lamentations of hopelessness and suffering from Palestinians living in refugee camps across Lebanon. The common theme has been “min a’eesh bedoun amal” or “we live without hope.”

On Wednesday, 1 September, Jadaliyya co-editor Mouin Rabbani spoke with digital rights campaigner Marwa Fatafta and  about recent revelations concerning the NSO/Pegasus digital espionage program and its broader implications. This episode of Connections..

Join us on Wednesday, 1 September for a conversation with digital rights campaigner Marwa Fatafta about recent revelations concerning the NSO/Pegasus digital espionage program and its broader implications. This episode of Connections will examine the human and political and dimensions of digital..

The Project on Middle East Political Science partnered with Stanford University’s Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law and its Global Digital Policy Incubator for an innovative two week online seminar to explore the issues surrounding digital activism and authoritarianism.  This..

On 23 February 2021, Politico broke the news that Al Jazeera was launching a right-leaning American digital news outlet called Rightly. The outlet’s first program “Right Now with Stephen Kent” is an opinion-led interview program reflecti..

The outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and ensuing lockdown measures disrupted many aspects of social and economic life and imposed new social realities. Digital technologies provided alternative avenues for social interactions and became central features of the ‘New Normal’. Communities and p..

Jadaliyya’s Iran Page interviewed Sima Shakhsari and Niki Akhavan about their efforts in the “No Sanctions on Iran” campaign, a digital activist initiative designed to raise awareness about the deleterious effects of U.S. sanctions on everyday people and politics in Iran. Shaksari and A..

The following statement was issued by the Board of Directors of the Middle East Studies Association on 29 October 2020 in response to censorsh..

UCLA Professor and Bernie Sanders surrogate challenges both Silicon Valley and the Ivory Tower of academia to find the the heart of technological emancipation from Egypt's Tahrir Square to US politics.

I started this research in 2008, when I met a number of young women and men in Cairo who were blogging in Arabic. I was a blogger myself at that time, and I was so fascinated by the fact that whereas for me this was merely a hobby, for them this activity was a ..

(Call for Papers proposed by Sara Tafakori, LSE and Sabiha Allouche, SOAS for Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication - MJCC.)

This cal..

Tuesday, 6 November, 5 pm
Merten Hall 1203
George Mason University

Location: Issam Fares Hall / Main Campus, Zouk Mosbeh 
Time: 9:00 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

This week’s Jadaliyya “Media on Media” roundup looks at several important dyanmics shaping the MENA region’s mediascape. In Palestine, Arabs took to..

"The Media Project” at the Arab Studies Institute is pleased to announce its workshop on digital activism, civil society, and media in the Middle East. the second in a series of critical workshops, conferences, and events will be held in Beir..

In this interview with Status/الوضع host Moe Ali Nayel, Hana Sleiman takes Status deep below the American University in Beirut bu..

Adi Kuntsman and Rebecca L. Stein, Digital Militarism: Israel’s Occupation in the Social Media Age. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press, 2015.

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Friday, April 3 | 8:30 am - 4:00 pm | Reception to Follow

American University Washington College of Law

4801 Massachusetts Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20016 | Room 603

Scholars, policy experts, and practitioners will convene to have an open discussion about how digital sea..

[The following article on R-Shief was written by Ursula Lindsey and published in The Chronicle for Higher Education on 9 March 2015 under the title