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Özge Yaka, Fighting for the River: Gender, Body and Agency in Environmental Struggles (University of California Press, 2023).

We both spent a good part of our PhD research—which in both cases focused on other issues pertaining to rural Jordan—witnessing negotiations around conservation and exploring some of the contentious dynamics between local populations and the Royal Society for t..

My name is David Naguib Pellow and I am a proud member of Academics for Justice in Palestine. I’m not an expert on Palestine-Israel. I am an environmental justice scholar, so I will use this opportunity to offer an environmental justice framing of this struggle. 

As Environmental Humanities scholars we are compelled to call on the Israeli government and the international community for an immediate ceasefire and an end to the killing in Gaza. We stand in solidarity with Palestinians under attack in Palestine/Israel, and those in the diaspora, wh..

This episode focuses on the ongoing humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza, with coverage of dire current conditions including in-depth analysis by host Carly A. Krakow addressing the long-term, disastrous health and environmental consequences of the blockade and repeated military bombardmen..

I wanted to write about a place that challenges normative representations of the Middle East in the broadest sense. The Unsettled Plain defies the conventional framings of the region’s history.

In a Mediterranean narrative about the demise of pastoralism, the interplay of nineteenth-century forestry and nomadic communities finds expression through French and Ottoman characters, spinning theories and politicking while quelling resistance at home and in colonial territory. Their administ..

The 2021 Independent Iraqi Film Festival (October 1-6) is currently broadcasting films virtually that are free and open to all. Check out: https://iiffestival.com/

In this special episode, Huma Gupta and China Sajadian discuss abolition geographies and environmental movements with renowned geographer and activist Ruth Wilson Gilmore. She is the author of the award-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California and ..

This roundtable focuses on environmental justice, analysing the ways in which approaches to environmental studies—across disciplines ranging from international law to geography and urban planning—have traditionally overlooked and under-emphasised the critical roles of communities directly impact..

In this special episode, Anooradha Iyer Siddiqi speaks with Alishine Osman, Anisa Salat, and Huma Gupta about their experiences of environmental scarcity and diaspora, as well as the refugee camps and urban environments that became the landscapes of tha..

Environmental Reclamations is part of a series of four dialogues called Building Solidarities: Racial Justice in the Built Environment. This fourth and final dialogue in the series will focus on environmental diasporas and ecological reclamation in the "Somalias" of Dadaab, Min..

In this episode, Huma Gupta and guest host Camille Cole discuss Egypt’s occupation and the history of capitalism as both a social and an ecological process with Aaron Jakes.

This roundtable focuses on environmental justice, analysing the ways in which approaches to environmental studies—across disciplines ranging from international law to geography and urban planning—have traditionally overlooked and under-emphasised the critical roles of communities directly ..

In the early hours of 8 March 1930, a spring storm dumped torrential rain on the Suez Canal cities of Isma‘iliyya and Port Sa‘īd.[1] The rain fell quickly and the subsequent flooding caused widespread damage across Isma‘iliyya due to the city’s inadequate stormwater drainage system. A network of..

In this episode, Huma Gupta speaks with journalist Layli Foroudi. They explore how the story of phosphates can help us understand the political economy of environmental transformation in Tunisia from the late nineteenth to the twenty-first century. This episode discusses phosphate mining t..

As the COVID-19 death toll has surged past 125,000 in the United States and continues to rise worldwide, communities of color in the United States are being disproportionately impacted by the pandemic. In this interview, Carly A. Krakow, C..

We had a conversation with Khalid Suleiman—a journalist and researcher of environmental affairs—who recently published Guardians of the Water: Drought and Climate Change in Iraq with Al-Mada Press in Baghdad. This book is partic..

In March 2020, the US Campaign for Palestinian Rights (USCPR), a US-based non-profit organization which organizes boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) campaigns and other support for Palestine solidarity endeavors, 

Iowa State University’s PhD program in Rural, Agricultural, Technological and Environmental (RATE) History invites applications for a 6-year, fully-funded PhD fellowship in Indian Ocean World and Middle Eastern Environmental History. Iowa State University is a partner with McGill University’s In..

Cities are home to over half the world’s population, consume a majority of its resources and cause a large share of its waste. Cities are a challenge for global sustainability. They are also crucial for its solution. Their settlement density and networks of creativity provide the spa..

In this interview, Alan Mikhail discusses his own work on the environmental history of the Ottoman Empire, the wider intervention of environmental history, and the challenge of interdisciplinarity. The interview was initially conducted in person at the 2013 Middle East Studies Association (..

The Cairo Laboratory for Urban Studies and Environmental Research (CLUSTER) has been..