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The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 12 February 2020 in response to the US De..

The following letter was issued by the Middle East Studies Association 27 January 2020 in response to the US Depa..

Topics of conversation included contextualizing the history of anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism, personal experiences with Islamophobia on campus, the importance of community and understanding nuance and power hierarchies.

In the past month a systematic campaign has been underway in Turkey targeting Syrian and other migrant populations through deportations (through forcible signings of “voluntary return forms”), forced-movement within and between cities, harassment, and ill-treatment. While the government has rele..

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This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya.

[The following report was published by the Bahrain Center for Human Rights on 10 February 2014] 

Discrimination Against Women in Bahraini Society and Legislation

[This is a roundup of news articles and other materials circulating on the Arabian Peninsula and reflects a wide variety of opinions. It does not reflect the views of the Arabian Peninsula Page Editors or of Jadaliyya. You may send your own recommendations for inclusion in each week`s roundu..

[The following report was originally published by the Emirates Center for Human Rights on 19 July 2013.]

A twenty-five-year-old Norwegian woman has been

Israeli practices and policies are a combination of apartheid, military occupation, and colonization. Together, they aim to ethnically cleanse the territory of historic Palestine from its indigenous Palestinian presence.

This Israeli regime is not limited to the Palestinians living in the ..

In August 2012, the California State Assembly passed House Resolution 35 (HR35). Although it is non-binding and carries no immediate legal implications, the resolution seeks to address a..

Recently, the Ministry of Tourism in Lebanon issued a memorandum banning discrimination in the country`s private pools and beaches. Such a ban came after many years of the barring of entry or other forms of discrimination against migrant domestic laborers and those assumed to be migrant domestic..

During the past two weeks, the United States and the European Union released their annual human rights and progress reports, respectively, on Israel. Each one substantially criticized the state of minority rights in the country. The US State Department called the "institutional and societal..

“I will do everything I can to grow a field in the desert.”

- Haidar Swaid, Member of the Garbage Collectors Syndicate

In both the foreign and local press, conventional frameworks for understanding the uprising in Yemen locate i..

[The following was originally published in BADIL`s al-Majdal.]

Between mid-February and early March 2012, the Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination held its 80th session, in which it ev..

When I told the Israeli border official who interviewed me that I was going to Ramallah, she sneered and wrinkled her brow: “okay.” Why would anyone go there, she seemed to say. There was no mistaking her disapproval. Looking at my US passport, she wanted to know about my family tree: my father`..

Ben White, Palestinians in Israel: Segregation, Discrimination and Democracy. London: Pluto Press and New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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

Ben Whi..

Adalah has been at the forefront of promoting and defending the rights of Palestinians in Israel and the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT) for over fifteen years. Its work includes challenging discriminatory and racist laws against Palestinian citizens of Israel, advocating for basic services..

Kherrberr is a media monitor that specializes in overseeing the different types of gender discrimination, including biases based on color, race, religion, appearance, sexual orientation, and social class. 

In Lebanon, women do not have the most basic rights. There is a continued absen..

Senator Dick Durbin, the senior Democrat from Illinois, held a historic hearing last week on “The State of Muslim Civil Rights ..

In Kuwait, some young Bidun men and women often wonder what more they could offer the country to get accepted as one of its own. Their fathers had lost their li..

Republicans clearly think that they have found a political winner in Muslim-bashing. Peter King, Republican representative from New York’s Third Congressional District (in Long Island), is the new chair of the House Homeland Security Committee. He was way ahead of ..

I find myself intermittently infuriated and nauseated by the news coverage of the sexual assault on a female CBS reporter in Tahrir Square during the celebrations the day that Husni Mubarak resigned. This coverage has ranged from t..